| Show nt new e w air view shows R revival vival in marcua cur area 61 4 W a CL 4 5 SW S W 1 5 n i A 5 t alil 1 fw Z v 4 r YR V n M t P bell A g 4 a Z photo courtesy western air express history does not very often repeat itself in aning usually when a mine or a district is worked over once it very seldom comes back when tin an ore body is mined it is gone and there is no second crop not so with the mercur district as the accompanying new and striking aerial photograph shows this photo was taken in september 1939 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 0 the days gone by when the district was a humming mining community supporting approximately 2300 2500 persons today mercur is well along the comeback trail and more r than 1000 men are finding steady employment in the district which was considered washed cd up a i few years ago new life was breathed into ral the e camp due to improved metallurgy in the treatment of gold ores and an advance in the pi aiice ice of the I 1 yellow metal from 20 ga to 3 35 an ounce in order to revive the old camp the expenditure of more than a holf half million dollars for machinery de velo mant and supplies wis was necessary the low lov gra craib character of tho the ores required installation of lage milling and cyanide plants two ot of which lave ive replaced the barren wastell castela of the canyon I 1 these plants were wera built by W F snyder sons and the bothwell interests of salt lake city in addition to the tha tailings which are being treated 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 a permanent basis the mercur cur district known as camp floyd was Ve teeming enning with activity at the beginning of the silver excitement in 1870 but was practically abandoned as a silver camp I 1 until the discovery of gold a few years later records of the united states geological survey place t the value of from the district e at only a small infraction traction of which was paid in ili dividends I 1 much 1 uch the same as it was during the ea eyrly rl r ay iy days most of the revenue f from the te L h ore goes lor for labor supplies equipment and taxes with little left over for distribution the district however is an ail important factor in the welfare of tooele thoele county and a large contributor to the industry of utah revival of the district is testimony to the tact fact that where mining goes industry progress and individual development go |
