Show NEW MILL FOR SPOFFORD statesman boise ida after a year of hard and consistent development work the property of the spofford gold mining company located eight miles east of this city is now in excellent condition and the owners are contemplating many improvements which they claim will make this mine one of the best in this section of the state A ton mill will he be built this fall to handle the ore which is now blocked out and as the ore bodies are seemingly inexhaustible the management declares that it will be but a short time until over a thousand tons of ore will be treated daily the property c of cf f the company arii A includes twenty four claims has been attracting ing a great deal of attention recently on account of the character of the rock and the I 1 desira desirable ble location of the mine there is an abundance of water and wood near the claims and on blem and a first class wagon ad which makes the transportation of the ore an easy matter up to the present time there has been over 1500 feet of development work done and ore of a paying value has been encountered in almost every foot of this work according to the statement of the manager the whole property seems to be one great mass of gold bearing quartz an average of the many assays essays taken thus far show values mostly gold of per ton there have been various demonstrations made which show that this ore can ba successfully treated by the simplest and cheapest methods for less than 1 a ton colonel judson spofford who has been in charge of the work for the past years is very enthusiastic over the showings made and he declares that the reports of the experts all state that the spofford group will make a great mine like the home stake but with a higher grade of ore in no I 1 tunnel which starts on claim no 5 and which is on the north side of the cottonwood creek ore of good values has been found all the way the face of the tunnel is now in hard gray mineralized quartz and the indications are that it will soon change into an ore of a much higher highe r value there have been several tunnels driven on the property and insofar as they have been worked they have all been in ore it is claimed by those who visited the property recently that with its magnificent showing of large bodies of ore carrying gold in liberal paying quantities and the ore being susceptible to dry crushing and cyanide treatment that being the cheapest and most economical method of handling athe the ore the mine will soon be one of the best in the southern part of the state it has they claim timber that will last for many years to come and inasmuch as no pumping and no hoisting will be necessary bc a great mine will be opened up will afford employment to several hundred bundre men |