BUCK GOLD IS BRIGHTJPRDSPEGTS There is renewed activity evident in the offices of the Bannack Gold Mining company, which is reflected from the camp in Montana. The time when the water power for operation of this property will be available is rapidly approaching an details of organisation i are being completed for the period of ' real production for which the company com-pany has Jbeen preparing for more than a year. A. G. Maxwell, a cyanide man of wide experience in Mexico and the southwest, lias been retained as mill superintendent. G. W. Wood, well known metallurgical metallurgi-cal engineer or Salt Lfflte and Denver, who has had charge of the metallurgical metallurgi-cal tests and the design and construction construc-tion of the Bannack mill, said yesterday: yester-day: The physical conditions surrounding sur-rounding the Bannack Gold Mining company 's property are- without doubt as favorable for cheap operation opera-tion as any I have ever seen. The mine is dry, the ore is soft and occurs oc-curs in large bodies, so that a steady production for the mill should be easily maintained at a minimum cost for ruining, and ' when it arrives at the mill it is in the best possible condition for the subsequent cyanide treatment. The main working tunnel portal is only a distance of 300 feet from the crushing plant. The handling of the ore "from that point is entirely en-tirely by gravity. The plant is thoroughly complete and up-to-date in all items metallurgically and physically. The process employed is continuous counter current de-cantation, de-cantation, using Dorr equipment. No expense has been spared m liberality lib-erality of design to secure the lowest low-est possible costs of operation and the highest efficiency. My tests show a recovery of 97.4 per cent of the gold and 67. S per cent of the silver, and, as the Bannack ore is much higher in gold values than in silver, this represents repre-sents an extra-ordinarv saving. The operating costs will be exceptionally ex-ceptionally low. My estimates show "that the over all costs of milling will not oxced $1.25 per ton. Since the mining costs, as estimated by the engineer and superintendent su-perintendent of the property, are also low, the over all cost of production pro-duction of this property has a good chance to make a low record for underground mining and cyaniding. All of the conditions, both general gen-eral and detailed, surrounding this Property, look favorable to me and am naturally anxious to get on the ground for the starting up of the mill for which we are now fully prepared. I feel absolutely certain of the-successful the-successful and long term production produc-tion of this property. Mr. Wood has had wide experience, with such uniform success, and is so well known in mining circles that his impressions are given credence.