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Show United Btatee mint. The cost of mining and extracting ranges from $2.50 to $3 per ton. "The formation Is country lime, with a porphyry dyke running through It. The veins of porphyry ur ore bodies a chert lime, carrying from 65 to 85 Utah Formations Have Sur- are lx-- r cent silica. The chert lime gives way and changes into the ore, which Goldites. prised (iiitUm the gold presumably by the hot mineral solutions when in a plustlc Male forcing their way while In erup.A Correspondent of the Chicago tive action. This formation lias heen trueed for fifteen miles. Tim ore In Chronicle Writes of Camp Floyd is uxuully found at iUHntlll(-The Sedimentary and Volcanic Con- apulng depth of from 200 to 4'Ni feel, in runs troversy Assays of Mohawk Ores every InstanceIn where toore, which gold high enough pay, lias been Previous Reports Mc- found, Confirm it is in vast quantities, so vast, in fuct, that it has been hard to comQueen Goes to tbs Sampson. pute the value of the deixislt. As one old miner said, after visiting the fiun-slilmine; I have been In mines A correspondent writing from Salt where I knew the mineral could be Lake City to the Chicago Chronicle, found in two directions, but when I under date of December tilth, makes got down the Bhaft of the Sunshine I the following reference to Mercur and found the ore In every direction. Acres of it with an unknown depth and area. its bonansas: "Salt Lake City, Utah. Dec. M. Utah 1 found it so In all the big mines in the district.' has upset many geological theories, OPINIONS OF MINERS DIFFER. said an old miner to a representative "Nearly every miner has a different of the Chronicle In the lobby of one of to the formation of the Salt Lake's hotels, watching a crowd idea asSome claim that it Is a sediof excited men talking of the new gold mentary dejiosit, and that the veins of fields at Mercur, or, as it Is commonly lime and porphyry running through It have Ixt'ii forced up by volcanic erupcalled. Camp Floyd. claim that tin- - veins are I remember, he continued, "the tion. Olliers Immense contact veins extendnot could tegular. geologists all said that silver ing for milts, and only of a certain be found In sandstone, and demonwidth. Others will lmvn it that at one strated their position scientifically to time, when all this iHirtlon of the countheir own satisfaction. At the same try was Lake llonnevlilc, the ore was in the scams of the hills, and time at Silver Reef ore was. being deposited w hole country Is filled with the demilled that was nothing but sandstone the ami posit only requires digging to find nd silver, and an old friend of mine il. what It is of liitle sold a nick house he had lived in for uuy nature placed tills de-- 1 twenty years for $11,000, which had not ('Hit. Jt is there, and no one knows or wasnt cost him $211 to build, and realizes I In- - extent ur richness of It. worth for any purpose $25. He had When the nutions arc railing for morc and of silver, a housed in palace been to carry on the coinim rcc of the had lived in poverty and want. When goid world, nature reveals to mail the hida fellow down Boulh found gold inwasa den storehouses where the wealth lias i vein of coal, the geologists said it stored ready against the day of an impossibility; that nature, even In reed. a moment of forgetfulness, would never Young once SHld, looking do such a thing. Hut the man who i;t"Brigham the mountain peaks that wall in the word their take coal didn't owned the Bairds.' 'The. hills sur''ity of the for It, and went on mining his coal and rounding us are filled with gold and and too, was gold, It good yellow gold. silver. Home It will lx- - brought made the owner rich. The Mercur dis- from Its secret day to help beautify places trict is also a pussle to geologists, and and build up Zion.' none of them dares say whether tne was That said before either gold or deposit Is sedimentary or whether it sliver had been discovered In Utah; toveins. or contact lies In fissure thousands find employment in The gold fields of Mercur are the day from the secret places both one topic of conversation in the hotels bringing and silver. and upon the streets of the Mormon gold capital, all talking of 'gold,' sedimentRailroad Building's Low Record. vein, ary deposit, 'cyanides,' contact Chicago Railway Age publishes and many who apparently are wan- a The table showing that railroad construcderers, compare the Camp Floyd and tion in the United States has reached a Mercur fields with the Kaffir hills and the Johannesburg district of Africa. lower point this year than for twenty Cripple Creek, too. Is often referred years iast. Only 17X2 miles of track to, and It seems the impression that were laid, a tremendous decline front although the values at Cripple Creek the great year of 1SS7, when Almost miles were put down. The follow.ire higher, 111 deposits are not nearly so vast nor so permanent. Camp ing tHblc will show how the truckage miles from lies or Fairfield, fifty laid during 1S95 has been distributed; Floyd, Balt Lake City. Here the Union PaSlate. Lines. Miles. cific train goes on to the silver camps Alulxima of Eureka, Silver City and Tlntlc. and Arizona r' line goes up the Arkuiixas a little California hill to Mercur. The distance by the Salt LakeMer-& Colorado Florida to Fairfield from Mercur railroad miles. As the Cenrgia cur 1s ten and one-ha- lf Indiana crow files It Is five; but the crow files Indian Territory over the hills and the railroad elimkn Illinois around them. Karh passenger puts a Iowa liver dollar Into a buckskin sack held Kansas '... by the conductor, for passage money, Kentucky Ixiiilslana as the conductor Is also ticket seller, Maine baggage-mastand brakeinan. Maryland The town of Mercur consists ofa Michigan M iniu-sotframe buildings on either side of wagon road In a gulch, every oilier Mlsxku-.iiii- i Missouri building being either a hotel ur saloon or the two combined. The range of Montana mountains the Mercur district Is in Is called the Otiulrrh, and contains some of the richest gold and sliver deposits In the West. Not far from the Mercur Oklahoma. gold flelde la Hlngham, the oldest mione that hae South Carolina ning camp in Utah, andellver in large Texas produced both gold and Utah Eusame In the range Is quantities. reka. Tlntlc, Silver City, Ophlr, Stock-to- n Virginia and others, rich In mineral and all Washington West Virginia containing paying mines. Here, mid-of Wisconsin way in the very heart and center this range of hills. Is found the stranglories... est, richest problem of them all. If all the mining cams of Utah were hammered into one. all the vast deposit ivth DUIIVP. 1 of mineral were now massed In solid Nvw KriKlutii! croup 4 Middle and extracted of Atlantic stiver gold pyramids groin 5 from the one refined, Merrur could in Central Northern gioup.... K Knmh Atlantic out-top group ten years every pyramid with and Mississippi V. gp I solid yellow gold, and then have deep Half Bout li western group 7 beneath her of the earth in the bowels Northwestern t4 untold wealth, so vast Is the great 1 act lie group group mineral sone that Ilea concealed be54 hills. Total neath the "In 1870 sliver was discovered near A STARTLING FORECAST. what Is now known as the town of Mercur. It was found in the old SparOf all forecastH that, can be made torow Hawk and Carrie Steel mines In day regarding the future of the United and Imth produced States of America, none seems more paying quantities, about $200, port each. The silver deposit reasonable than that the civilization soon worked nut, however, and cinnaof lids Nation will lx- - esxciiliiiily in its fundamental bar was found In sonic of the workings It tuny in truth he raid that, from that carried a small amount of gold value. After many thousand dollars the loftiest Kiinl of view of universal had been expended In the district try- history, the must important event in the nineteenth century at so far ing to extract the gold from the ore, and endeavoring to find ax Western civilization Is concerned bodies of ore carrying silver, the dislx to the reunion may easily prove trict was almndoned and for twenty (after a separation of fourteen hundred years remained In that condition. years) of tin- - rivrmnnic race Anglo-Saxon- s ami Teutons upon the virgin BOUGHT HT NEBRASKA XH. A century soil of the ndw continent. 1891 Nebraska capitalists bought ago, as Mr. Kidd grapliiciilly describes "In now Is as known Mercur ill the what ills "Serial Evolution." it was to mine, the ore carrying at that time a predominate in the nineteenth century. value of $8 ht ton. They could find Tills question was answered for Europe no process for extracting the ore, as by the expansion of England and Unthe ordinary process of milling would derline of the So purely Celtic not separate the gold. They had be- far ns tin- - United States was come dlscoi-aged- , when they heard of the issue was never doubtful: a process of extracting ore with :i solu- mi-- il was settled for all time when tion of cyanide. They sent some on- the great tli!" of rinuin. Austrian and to lie tested, and found that It was Swiss mi ignition to this muniry set successful, in fact, the only - process In. The descendants of those sturdy known that would cxtrucl llu- gold in and enterprising tribes who hade farethe Merrur district. well to each other on the bleak sln-iIn 1892 the Mercur company put In of tin- - North sea in 419 are the an ore erusher and cyanide plant, nnl undisputed masters, fur goo--today or for lias a date to conthis alsiut half tinup destinies iif this great paid evil, of million In dividends. There are now tinent. As Lord Acton henutifuily exfive large planta beside the Mercur in pressed it m his Inaugural lecture at the Camp Floyd district. Cambridge, "the dense well of the fortunes of man is woven without a void; THE CYANIDE I'UOCESS. In society, ns in nature, the structure "In the cyanide process the ore Is is continuous, and we can trace things crushed until It will go through a wire lack uninterruptedly until wr dimly mesh from three-eightto thret-fourt- hs descry the Dcclnrntlon of Independence of an Inch In size. It Is then In the forests of (lermany." Mr. Fred- thrown Into large tanks, where a solu- crick William Hulls, In the January tion of cyanide is poured over the Forum. crushed ore. Most Undoubtedly. 'The ore remains In the tanks rrom thirty-si- x to forty-eigMr. Wantorno What particular point hours, during which time the gold In the ore are you following up In vivisection a part of the solution. The solution is now, doctor? then drawn off through lung troughs Dr. Scalpel We are trying to estior boxes containing zinc shavings. In mate the exact amount of pain It the boxes the gold causes the animal. passing through Mr. Wuntcrno Don't you think If gathers on the shavings, coating them. It U then called amalgam. This amai- - you tried It on one of the gam, or 'cyanides,' as some coll It. Is he'd lx able to make a better fraternity more sent to a gold refinery, and then to the scientific report ? New York and Herald. MINING IHEORItS UPSET Insist on mi ARP The New BEWARE C of Imitation trade marka label. and Qrape Juices RAWER SOPAi in packages -- f SALT LAKE CITY SODA WATER GO., SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. t,rtT1M Organic Remedies F he lt. Prepared occorJing to tbetNew System. Igl'lte I' In this WlXSMUuniCouajrni I presume we have used over one hundred bottles of Pisos Cure for Consumption in my family, and I am continually advising others to get it. Undoubtedly it is the bum A $1 box is guaranteed to do you more good It an a gallon of any medidno you vor took. Unsold igBaasmHn TV. Dee. 29, 1894. a Si... lilts IhcM evsr li re lor your apprenl. As tai'tlsss sad hsrmles si Honeopath e pellatsf tu War powerful to cun dis-r.thsn sny ol ths eld-- :! s.ureou. allopathic C. Miltesberger, Clarion, Pa.f 1 sell Pisos Cure for Consump- have never and any com- -, tion, EE3XSIS3Z3Z3L & SnoRKY, Postmaster, a j 1m lktfi Cough byrup.l plaints. Tu4tiaCtood. 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