Show THE CAMP OF MERCUR MERCUR M the cradle of or tho Cho cyan c an anIdo iv ido process and tho the home of its development again came into the lime Ihne limelight limelight light this year with a new dividend payer It was tho the Boston Sunshine This company was able to produce for Cor Its shareholders and In the first year ell nearly nearl paid back the th entire Investment The Boston Sunshine was purchased at a sheriffs s sale a little over oer a year Clr ago The old mill on the tho property was wm remodeled and amid a cyaniding c system sim Ilm similar liar ilar to the Golden Goden Gato null mill of tho time Con Consolidated Mercur with a few improvements Improve Improvements ments ment was wa Installed Tills I meant in um n outlay of oC something like Tike l Almost from the tho day the mill started it has laa hn been making an nn excellent of SO 90 SOper per cent on 3 30 00 ore and handling in inthe tho the neighborhood of ot 15 tons tom of ore OJe a aday aday aday day Thus far the mill has ha worked only oily the ores of or which there thero therea jo joa ii iia a largo large tonnage tonna e In the tho mine It H Is probable that It will also have hae to roast its sulphide ores but thus fur lur there has been beet nothing of or this kind atthe at al altho tho the property At Al present this is one of the tho questions that tho the Consolidated rule cur is endeavoring to solve It Is declared that as CUi soon as some sonic method Is devised that does docs away Iwa with the roasting process It will mean new life to Mercur General Manager George GeorgeH H Dern of the tine Consolidated Mercur Is la confident that this will be bo one of ot the problems of oC the camp that will bt hI solved during the tho year Among the mines at It this year ear a number of things have hap L If II Hunt and associates en endeavored to treat trent the tho tailings from Crom th the theold old Sacramento mine millo and after cret Ing a t mill and doing a large largo amount of work they wole obliged to abandon the tho project Following I this Hils tho the mill was taken ta 1 over and with a I number of changes was put in readiness to treat pros ores from the West V t Dip property properly Tho The property hai hu I been blen taken over and started stalled Hl for fol folIt Its It revival Throughout the year r the tin mill has ha teen Leen retreating the tailings oC of the old od Manning mill by the Holdeman process of cyaniding Although tho Consolidated Mercur ts wat us not placed op on the dividend end list ht from the district It has bus hu been heen better butter than Its own With the thc improvements Improve Improvements ments that are aro 10 now non being made mado e In the treatment of the ores It la is probable that there will be greater reMor activity there th r during the coming year and that ruler Ier cur will again aln be one of or the most mast nr M the s of oC the tho th state For a number num number ber r of years It has been the th heaviest gold gol producing camp of the tho state |