Show THE independence MINE boise Sta statesman W H davis president preside nt of the kansas texas oil mining company which owns the mammoth independence mine at big creek has returned from the property accompanied compa nied by manager J B eldredge J S warren of topeka and mr march of bellingham bay wash were also of the party both being interested in the company mr davis is president of the parkhurst davis mercantile company of topeka they bring a very interesting report from the great property though it yet lacks the results of assays essays of the samples taken mr eldredge sampled the new tunnel thoroughly but the samples have not been run the tunnel had been driven feet into the ledge when they were there but the hanging banging wall had not been reached the last ninety feet had all been in ore that seems very good and the last fifty feet seems particularly gcoy the entire length of the tunnel is in ore there are no barren streaks the samples heretofore taken by others indicate that all is payable in addition to bringing out samples for assay mr eldredge dredge Ei arranged to have 1000 pounds of ore taken from the tunnel sent in at once to be tested in his experimental cyanide plant the tests heretofore made have shown the ore perfectly amenable to cyanide and the ore now being taken out of the tunnel appears to be equally well adapted to that process in talking of the property and the plans of the company mr davis said yesterday he was satisfied the ledge was one of the best ever opened old miners had told him they had never seen anything like it nothing that approached it the plans of the company with respect to equipping the property would depend upon the tests now to be made they were ready to put in a pant p ant so soon as they had definitely settled what kind of a plant should be installed while they were satisfied a cyanide plant was what was needed they proposed to make this new series of tests before coming to a final decision after having decided upon the kind of a plant they would be ready to go right ahead mr ar davis said the only other question 0 be settled was that of getting a road and that chat appeared appealed to be in the way of solution rhe flie company would be ready to put a mill n this year if the road were completed |