Show W pay dart I 1 yi 4 at ari jr 7 i 44 t 1 T M I 1 J 4 amir s the above picture is not that of a road crew or an excavation crew but a mining outfit operating at the huge dumps of the old consolidated mercur property in the mercur district tooele thoele county utah this illustrates how the old district is being revived and shows that large scale operations are necessary in order that the project may so go forward the old dumps of the consolidated mercur are estimated to contain approximately tons of tailings from former milling operations the tailings it has been estimated contain from 3 to IV 6 per ton in gold that escaped early day milling operations the ore is scooped up a ton at a time by the huge power shovels and shipped to 0 the cy cyanide allide plant lant a short distance away for treatment much scientific work on metallurgy was necessary and en engineers g spent several years ot of stud study on this project before it became a reality it can readily be seen that the margin of profit la Is small and that only by employing large scale operations and the closest cooperation of everyone concerned can such such a project be made to pay out on its investment with the cooperation of science labor and the state the old ghost town of mercur is being reborn approximately men are fandt finding ing employment in the old camp that was once virtually ab abandoned as worthless |