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Show UTAH'S GREAT GOLD CAMP. What Others Have to Say of Mercur, Utah's Johannesburg. ICON. MERCUR'S BIG IMPROVE-MENT. IMPROVE-MENT. From tho Deseret News. t In Mercur, the home of the great Con solidated Mercur mlnen, the IniiKirtnnt events of the year were the change mado In the methods of treating the t slltney ores nt the Consolidated Mercur mill and tho equipment of the Sacramento Sacra-mento mill with retorts for the tieatment of the clnnebar ores which exist In lame quantities in the Sacramento mine. There was some mining done In n small way on other properties In the Camp Moyil district, mainly by lease. Some development work has been conducted at the Ingot with favorable results. The probabilities are that the quicksilver ores found there will bo productive of considerable revenue In the near future, CAUSE FOR APPREHENSION. It became apparent to the management manage-ment of the Consolidated Mercur early In tho year thnt owing to the ores of that bonanza becoming more slltney a change In treatment wns n necessity, the tailings showing a constnnt Increase iUi. p. the oIa method of reduction. In JnXi .t.h0 tn,,lnBs averaged 95 cents. In 1902 they ran up to $1.19, while during the six months prior to. May 1st last , the average was still higher, $1.30 to the ton. During the succeeding months a leBS tonnage was put thiough nnd more i care exercised In mining, with the re sult that the average was brought down to about $1.21. TREATMENT METHOD CHANGED. The situation was discussed by the directors of the company nnd the conclusion con-clusion reached to Install the Moore piocess; nfter conducting n series of experimental ex-perimental tests nnd satisfying Until-. Until-. selveH that the process wns nietnllurt cally a success. Accordingly, Gcor'gt Moore, the Inventor of the process, was Instructed to proceed to equip the big e mill with his new system which the tests previously mado seemed to Indicate would overcome the difficulties that had ueen experienced. The great task wns undertaken In July, and the reconstructed recon-structed plant was place' In commission ubout the llrst of Octobt. last. Metal-lurglcally Metal-lurglcally speaking, the Inltlnl run more than came up to the expectations of the management and had It not been for soma mechanical defects the plant -would have undoubtedly performed ItB functions perfectly. Theso troubles have been practically ac'Jwted, however, how-ever, nfter n great deal of annoyance to tho company nnd to Mr. Moore. DIVIDENDS SUSPENDED. In anticipation of the alterations to the mill, dividends were suspended In May; but the mine paid during the year 1G cents a share, or $150,000. Slnco the organization of the present company thoru has been $700,000 In "velvot" checked out. Adding to tho above tho amounts paid by the old Mercur Gold Mining and Milling company and De-Lamar's De-Lamar's Mercur mines, prior to thtlr consolidation, the grand total of dividends divi-dends derived fiom the properties of the present company aggregates the sum of $3,210,312.97. RECORD OF EXTRACTION. According to the report of Manager George II. Dern, submitted to stock-oldcrs stock-oldcrs recently, during the Inst llscnl year the bullion pioduced was valued at $l,2S"i,G5G.73, which was the product of 335.1G3 tons of oie. Hence the extraction ex-traction was $3.84 per ton. Adding the value of the ore, theiefore. was $5.05. The e.xpenw of mining wns $1.30, and of milling $1.CS per ton. |