Show MINING NEWS OF UTAH And Other Western Sta Saes es CON MERCUR BUILDS ITS OWN LIME KILN i June Tune 19 HAt At the tho Consoli Consolidated Consolidated dated Mercur Gold Mines lime Hmo kiln everything Is progressing nicely The fhe lime bed Is now furnishing the best rock It has hns ever Cot furnished since It was waa opened and this work Is affording considerable of r a a saving to the company Tho The limo lime rock after aCter being burned Is as S light and free to slack as It Is i possible to obtain The kiln which Is another of the eCOnom eCOnomIcal lent leal features projected by b George H Dern general manager malinger of tho the com corn company company pany pan Is I burning lime at the rate of three and a half tons a day It re requires reQuires requires quires seven tons of oC rock to lo obtain three and a half hair tons of limo The rock Is drilled with a Burley machine Holos Holes are made from Irom 10 to 12 feet In depth each hole breaking an annera average nera of 30 to lo 10 tons of o limo lime rock The rock is broken with double hand hammers In pieces about abou the tho size of ofa a teacup These are arc charged Into Inlo the tho kiln the charge being about SOO pounds of coal coni to a ton Lon of lime limerock rock lock TIle The quarry is so situated that the tho rock is run Into a car over oer the tres tro trestle trolIo tie tle and dumped Into the thc kiln At the bottom bollom of the kiln is a large largo coal bin with a capacity of oi 10 tons It Is built buill alongside of the Salt Lake Lal c Mercur track making malting It an easy mat matter matter matter ter to unload the tho Ito coal Into Inlo iho bin A hoist pulls tho tIme coal oal up II to the top 01 of the kiln where whore It Is put In iii When the lime limo Is l drawn out of tho the kiln it Is loaded Into a four sour and u a half halfton halfton ton lon car and then run into in to the mJ 11 A largo large storage bin has ha koch built at atthe atthe atthe the mill and It has a capacity of tons At present two men mart at the tho kiln working under tinder Superintendent Baker Balcer are arc able ahle to lo lay Jay up a n store st for the winter The Mines and anti Milling company which has han leased the tho dumps I Ial at al tho the Sacramento mine Is getting geWn sonic some good work out of Its new now mill It ItIs Itis Is said Although the savings as yet have not come up to what was ex cx expected It Is believed that as soon as the mill Is In good working order a fortune fortuno will be taken out outGeneral outGeneral outGeneral General Manager George Georgo H Dern Dora of the Consolidated Mercur General G Mine Foreman James and anti C CL CL L 11 drove over to West Dip now a deserted camp June 17 l with tIle the intention of or looking over r tho the I ground of oC the Daisy Dals It Is believed b that there Is a great grent deal of wealth In Inthe inthe I the tailings on the tho dumps at West Dip filth and that there will be something doing there shortly |