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Show AUtfTTTP MINES. MINING AND jt.CJJ 1 MINING MEN. MINES AND MINEI18. President Dern of the Consolidated Mercur Is expected to reach homo next week A letter from him, dated nt Havana, Culm, stated that he would leave thcro last Tuesday for New Orleans. Arthur Murphy, manager of the Daisy mines nnd mill nt West Dip, Is In town ngnln. Mr. Murphy la not doing do-ing much talking1 nt this lime he has nirrendered the floor to th nuui-cya-nhlea now coming from the mill. The news that chlorlnntlon was to be Introduced In Tlntlc was received with in.iny manlfertatlons n( nppioval during dur-ing the day. The lurgest chlorlnatlon plant In the world, which la operated by the United Slates lteductlon nnd Ite-llnlng Ite-llnlng fompnny nt Colorado City, has achieved Its proimrllona on ores of the same character, nnd what the method hna done for Cripple Creek It promises to repuat In Tlntlc. The slimes plant, which piomlses to add materially to dm, Mercur earnings. earn-ings. If It does not entirely obviate the losses, will go Inti. commission the present week, with (leorge Moore, In-vi In-vi ntor of the procs-. who has been detained In town to lie present ut the eent. While the deus have been many nnd provoking to the shareholders, sharehold-ers, they have been Incurred by the manufacturer of certain IHUiir. but this will have soon been forgotten. The Hacramento received last week 15,or,0 for ft carload of qulrkallter, ivhli h rnusea rejoicing alike to management man-agement and stockholders. The carload car-load was made up of about KO flasks, and the shipment has not taken all the metal on bnnd, as It Is understood that nearly half a en r loud Is still In the storerooms There Is no apparent Indication Indi-cation of the weakening of the quicksilver quick-silver vein In the mine, nnd In addition to this, the usual amount of gold ores ure coinlnir forth, so that the beginning of the jear ut the Fucromento la decidedly de-cidedly emouruglng. The Mining World. In the new channel of ore being developed de-veloped by Hupcrlntendent Arthur I Iron n of the Con Mercur. In thu Exchequer Ex-chequer ground. Is showing very line values. For n distance of "i feet along the Incline nn average value of 18.90 In gold Is shown, while for a considerable dlstnnce on each side the rock dirvlo-es n well-defined margin. It Is estimated that about 100,004 tons of milling ore Is In sight At the Mercui mill about r00 tons of ore per day Is being treated now. At this writing the Moore slime plant Is still out of commission, but It Is hoped by the management to hnve It In full operation within u short time |