Show new air view shaw shows revival in ka area M V verc W 4 v V V 4 lie 0 I 1 41 all 21 1 4 photo courtesy western air express history does not very often repeat itself in mining usually when a mine or a di district Is worked over once it very seldom comes back when an ore body la Is mined it la Is gone and there is no second second crop not io so with the mercur district as the accompanying new and striking aerial photograph shows photo was talen taken in september 1939 1039 of the camp which five years ago was a ghost town its huge dumps miles of tunnels and a few remaining building walls were mute evidence of the days gone by when the district was a humming mining community supporting approximately 2500 persons today la is well along the comeback trail and more than 1000 men are caidla steady employment in the district which was considered washed up a few years ago new life was breathed into the camp due to improved metallurgy in the treatment of gol gold dores ores and an advance in the price of the yellow metal from 2067 to 35 an ounce in order to revive the old camp the expenditure of more than a halt million dollars tor for machinery development and supplies was necessary the low grade character of the ores required installation of 0 large milling and cyanide plants planta two of 0 which have replaced the th barren wasteland of the tha canyon these plants planta were built by W ir snyder sons and the bothwell interests of salt lake city in addition to the tailings which are being treated now new ore deposits have been blocked out in the mercur hill golden gate brickyard and geyser marion properties much of this ore was not profitable during the early days and now much experimentation Is necessary in an effort to keep the district going on oil a permanent basis the mercur district known as camp floyd was teeming with activity at the beginning of the silver excitement in 1870 but was practically abandoned as a silver camp until tho the discovery of gold a few years later records of 0 the united states geological survey place the value of from frodi the district at only a small fraction of which was paid in dividends much the same game as it was during the early days most of the revenue from the ore goes tor for labor sup eup plies equipment and taxes with little left over tor for distribution the district however Is an important factor iu in the welfare of tooele thoele county and a large contributor to the industry 0 utah revival of the district is testimony to the tact fact that where mining goes industry progress Dr ogress and individual individual i development go |