Show ACTIVITY IN independence GULCH times hailey idaho off to the right when near the independence parker elkhorn gulch between hailey and ketchum the traveler arter after nightfall sees many lights that twinkle like so many stars they are the electric lights at the mill and mines of the independence A mining lining and milling company there are an even ot of these at the mill the mines the shops and the boarding and bunk houses and others will be added next spring these additional bulbs fifty to more would be put on now but they would have to be idle all winter so it would be bad business to go to such unnecessary expense at present there are only eight men employed at present but that is because the mill cannot pay without the addition of new jigs and rolls to add to the equipment the new jigs and rolls are at muldoon but cannot be hauled at present because they would have to be loaded and unloaded nine times between muldoon and the independence manager harry J allen alien is therefore awaiting a snowstorm with s six x or eight inches of snow on the ground he can haul jigs and rolls the thirty five miles from where they are to the independence in just two days without handling and at less chance of damaging once this machinery is on the ground it will be placed immediately and the in mill put in readiness to start but it can hardly go into commission before the first of march when it is put in commission the independence mines will give employment to forty to possibly men there is an abundance of rich ore developed in the mines the yield will depend upon the milling cap caD city from griffiths ranch the parker can also be seen with its seventy five or luminous bulbs that at that distance seem like planets there are about twenty five men employed they are driving eight feet a day and with an almost positive certainty of cutting the continuation of the ore body that in the early and even under the liberal management of the late wm H watt paid a profit of 59 cents out of every of receipts at the elkhorn and noonday about a mile beyond the parker a shaft is going down and about twenty men are employed the electric light has not been introduced there yet but manager doubtless intends to have it as soon as he shall conclude that the property will be oe prated for a sufficient length of time to compensate for the outlay this gulch referred to will probably employ more men than any other of the camps developing that are tributary to ketchum hailey and bellevue in it about seventy men are now employed within a year there will be hundreds possibly 1000 |