Show THE DAVEN DAVENPORT PO RT I N independent DEPENDENT miner mina nevada once again after years of hard struggle and persistent work the old gold camp of douglass seven miles west of mina in the gold range mining district enters the lists of bullion producers the first shipment amounting to being made by manager gus of the davenport in dependent mining and leasing company for several years past manager has been carrying on mining operations at douglass doing principally development work on company account A few months ago mr and associates of davenport iowa formed the davenport independent mining and leasing company and took over the companas comp anys holdings and are operating the property under lease A few months back some of the members of the company including mr purchased the sodaville So daville ten stamp mill from bob stewart and remodeled it putting in a cyanide plant and other modern equipment A test run of tons of rock was made with the result of a cleanup of bullion to the value of 2500 the company has good reserves of ore blocked out in the different workings and besides this has several hundred tons of good grade milling ore in the bins and on the dumps sufficient to keep the mill in steady operation recently henry runge a prominent capitalist of davenport iowa and who is heavily interested in both the mine and mill came out and spent some time here inspecting his holdings he expressed himself as highly pleased with the splendid showings of ore made by the development work of the past twelve months and also the successful manner in which the mill mil saying saving ol of is running and its splendid values through the tenacity and persistent efforts old time ann of manager another back again aga brought mining camp has been into the ranks of nevadas producers producer there are several other good anni could cou b that properties in douglass camp made producers if their managements follow the example set by manager to put the money legitimately the ground and keep digging I 1 |