Show t NORMAL CONDITIONS RESTORED AT MERCUR Big Mine in Working Regular Regula r Way After Series of fi r t. t Troubles 1 I-f I ELECT ELECTRIC RIC POWER AGAIN ON Maintains About Us Usual Us- Us Y ams U ual al Output Property Output Property m in j. j Fine Condition I r think this ends about as long a 8 alist alist list of troubles as ns an anyone one ever had to contend with wilh mild suid Secretary nee peeves 8 of u the c Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines company to The Republican yesterday r a as h he lie i a out the Information that the company compan furnishing them therm with whit electrical current nt had hOtl after nn an en en- 1 forced d rf rest t of uC many da days s 's resumed t tho o distribution of oC its power through throng h i the gr gre et t Golden Goldon n Gate Gat mill On February Feb Feb- lm l' 1 4 the tho current wont went off ocr and anti th the company l AVUS a notified that a asno snow sno anti and land slide In Provo canyon canyo had swept uway away about 1000 ft feet feel lt o othe of the Hume flume which can led water to th limn tho power potter plant of the Telluride Power company and that three or hr four days days' lime time would III bo be required to lo repair th the e danage o and continue the su supply j t y of If power The promised time line lengthened I into Inlet l ent twenty four days das before th the cur cm current rent was waR forthcoming but the mining company did not nol suffer the logs Ios lo of thIs much time because when Manager Dern taw sat that it Jt was uncertain when eh electricity could a again aln be he obtained from the lh power company compan lie Ill started tart tl up the tires s in his hi- own power plant and continued to grind up the gold gold- hearing rock lock by means of c electrical generated In the works The difficulties commenced in III October October Oc Oc- tober last when our s sawmill and the lie hUll buildings u used ed for the storage of our electric locomotives burned down de- de the armatures of oC both minet mine millo t locomotives locomotive and a large part of or the 3 tramway covering It became necessary necessary saT sary to put horses and antl mules on the tramway and as it Is a maxim int in t f Mercur that the ore must he kept moving at an any co cost t the tonnage was fairly w well 11 maintained but at quite an increased expense penso and antl with much dif dif dif- lieu It Earnings gs fro Aro Maintained Then C cane came ne the coal shortage which compelled us to cl close c down our 5 rousting department and antl l lay off of two hundred men for about aboul a a. month During During During Dur Dur- ing this period the mill was vas run on un straight ht Oxidized ore ore which requires t rte Jill l' l roasting and nd th the tho regular rate oCe of oC e Earnings was thus Ihus maintained rAll AU shippers can testify to the thC sluggishness In rho ho movement nt of fr freight and antl of or this we hn have had our om full share Recently a a. car of zinc dust lust lv at t Mercur r which had been on the road from New ew Orleans one forty days clays This material is imported from froma a Germany and is used In quantity h by byno noone n no one else lo In Utah so that when we commenced c using the las last t tub tuh on hand band with the car sun still sixty miles away where whore it had been for a full fun eek eek In spite of oC our earnest protestations protestations wo we began to get somewhat des des- prate r te These are arc only some of or the thc more notable things our manager has had hadR tj tf R contend I l with and antI he has hag c come mc up alt smiling after every eVen blow making up UI h fortune favors ors that which is lost wh when n It frowns Slime l Plant Nearly Complied a Tho n now new slime plant the most im im- ement recently author author- i rl by the i in company Is ri note now w nearly i completed This plant will wm cost nearlY in the the neighborhood ot of and antl the management management management man man- is certain that it will wUl effect a saving which will make it a most profitable profitable prof prot- Hable Investment The residue value l In the theore ore after treatment have in tic the al past averaged close to 1 per ton sometimes a a. little higher and sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times slightly lower Last years year's aver- aver aggi was 95 cents On the tonnage tr treated this mea means that nearly tonnage wont over the tho dump in the tail tail- I Ings logs Exhaustive tests have shown that the tailings by y other methods me of oC treatment can be he brought down to 50 GO cents per ton toll This means that nearly nearly near near- ly Iy half of the tho gold that now goes out in lh the tailings Is recoverable II n I Is obvious that If this recovery recover can be 1 economically made It will witt mean tremendously tret tre tre- t Increased tl profits for tho the L company The solution of oC this problem has engaged engaged engaged en en- t the attention of or the tho manager manage er 1 and antl his technical staff starr for COl the pas past year car and antl In November their researches re researches re- re searches had progressed to a a. point they the were willing to recent mend that n a new plant should be he lulu built The directors immediately voted voted vot vot- ed etl in favor of the plan and gave In- In that the work be c pushed to lo completion without any unnecessary delay delay Th The rho e Con Consolidated Mercur properties are aIe reported to bo he in prime condition |