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Show New Mill Being Constructed Con-structed At Mercur GHOST TOWN IS NOW HOPE TOWN Mercur, the ghost town of the past is becoming Tooele county's hope town of the future, built around that magic word "gold." Its heretofore deserted hill sides and clumps and abandoned townsite has boon transformed into a literal beehive of activity with 250 men employed under a wholesome spirit of optimism. Snyder mines employ half of the tiou costs. Workmen are now drip-in? drip-in? a 100-foot tunnel into the Sacramento Sac-ramento tailings dump and a raise will be driven from the end of the tunnel to the surface. Tailings will be removed from the dump by a conveyor system and the hole in the dump will serve as a bin for mine ore. A crushing plant and a seven-foot ball mill will be installed on the Sacramento Sac-ramento ground and two five-inch pipes will be laid between the mill and the Sacramento workings, one total number In the oi;ration of Its 700 ton mill, which is being run on a 500 ton basis in a profitable re-handling re-handling of one of the old Mercur gold dumps. Steam shovels have been in operation oper-ation for the past month excavating the foundation for the Geyser Marion Mar-ion Gold Mining company, new cyanide cy-anide mill at Mercur, which adjoins ad-joins the Snyder property. This new mill will have an initial capacity of 800 tons daily and will be expanded to an ultimate capacity of 1500 tons. to carry the barren solution up the hill and one to carry the slime pulp down the hill to the mill. The pipes will be 3500 feet long, and a 350 foot lift will require installation of two pumps at the mill. The pipe system will circulate 250 gallons a minute. Equipment for the new mill includes in-cludes four 100 foot thickeners and two seven foot ball mills, and the existing precipitation plant will be enlarged. A 2000 ton ore bin has been excavated on the hillside above the mill site and a crusher with a The mm will be built down the canyon about 500 feet west of the company's present 300 ton mill, completed com-pleted in 1935. F. B. Bothwell, general gen-eral manager, said the company expects ex-pects to have the mill completed to Its Initial 800 ton capacity and In operation early next fall. The two mills will be inter-connected until the new mill ls built to its ultimate capacity, after which the old one will be dismantled. Besides milling ore from the Gey- capacity of 150 tons an hour will be installed above the bin. The mill will be built principally of concrete, with little or no steel, and will be almost entirely underground. under-ground. The job will require 1500 cubic yards of concrete, to make which the company has installed a complete plant for screening, washing wash-ing and crushing gravel. The mill, when complete, will cost about $150,000. Its operation will require 1500 horsepower, which will be supplied -by the Utah Power and Light company. r ser Marion's open cut mine and tailings from the mill operated there 40 years ago, the new plant will mill ore and tailings from the neighboring neigh-boring Sacramento property, on the south side of the canyon, the property prop-erty being controlled by the same Interests as the Geyser Marion. Mr. Bothwell estimates that the company has a 30 year supply of milling material, divided as follows-10,000,000 follows-10,000,000 tons of ore on the Geyser Marlon ground, averaging' about $2.50 a ton; 300,000 tons of tailings from the old Geyser Marion mill, also containing about $2.50 a ton-' 2,000,000 tons of $4 ore on Sacramento Sacra-mento ground and 700,000 tons of tailings, containing about $2.50 a ton, from the old Sacramento mill. The Sacramento was a profitable mine in Mercur's early days, having paid $500,000 in dividends. Last year the Geyser Marion mill treated 5000 tons of Sacramento ore. Ore and tailings will be reduced to slime pulp on the spot and reach the mill through a pipe, saving about 40 cents a ton in transporta- |