Show fIRST VISIT TO OrHIR MItE SENATOR CLARK SEES THIS PROPERTY FOR FIRST TIME Discusses Amalgamated Copper Company Com-pany Which He Intimates Doesut Possess the Whole Earth I i Senator W A Clark of Montana re tturned to the Knutsford last evening Lafler a trIp to Mercur and an Inspelrion fOf9hlS 1 Ophir property He saId that l1e had seen for the first time his prop rh and together with his mining ex pert E J Clark of Butte had thor iouShly inspfctfd it The senator would not suite his liniOn i and said t li I dont care to say anything about tthe Ophir just now and I cannot state what I shall du with the mine as I fbave not made up my mind I am nOl col1Slderlng the question and will formulate for-mulate my plans in a short time I shall leave tomorrow Friday at 1230 p in for California Arizona and New Mexico to look after my interests there Asked his reasons tor not joining the tAmalgamatEd Copper company or the icomblne Senator Clark said fo ftI Iddo I was not solicited I to do so and JhOUld have declined had I been asked ItO I manage mr own properties inn in-n own manner and dont allow anyone any-one to direct me how to do so The 1 ma1gamated Copper company Is not a Jtrust or combine in the sense of any great combInation of tOe big copper pIOducers of the country It is only a lombLlation of certain Butte interests and is a matter of which I know very littleThe The great copper producers like the Calumet and Hecla the Rio Tlnto the Iountaln Queen and mJ own property In Arizona are not In any combine but arc each Independent of any control Iixcpt their ownindividual I owners |