The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-04
OLD-TIME BONANZAS
AROUND PI0GHE
Properties to be ReOpened by
Manhattan Company.
RICH ORE OVERLOOKED
DESCRIPTION OF TIE BIG SYN
DICATE's MINES.

During their recent trip south Judge
Bradstreet and @. II. Briggs spent
three days among the mines at Phoebe,
recently acquired by A. B. Lewis, for
the S12,500,OOO Manhattan Mining &
Smelling company, now in process OF
formation.
To begin with, the gentlemen, both
of whom expect TO become Interested
In TIE great enterprise, state that in
the early-day mining al Phoebe one i'm
portant feature of the ore formation
was almost entirely overlooked The
properties OF the old Phoebe CONSOLE
dated are traver5ed by a great por-
phyry dixie and late developments have
shown that while the old time miners
studlOUsly avoided entering that belt
claiming that the only ore was in the
quartzite, every foot of il is highly
mineraliZed and well defined and rich
ore bodies lie against il on either side,
while another cuts through il in the
center From that porphry, the gen
Lemen state. hundreds OF thousands of
tons of fine ore Will be mined.
10 IurIher illustrate the imnensity
OF the property secured at the cost of
Sl,UUO,GOO, a brief description of a few
u the properties was given by the Wis
itors.
The Pacific mine is opened by q ]. 500
loot tunnel in the porphyry. 500 feet
or which Is through ore that a lessee
mas been working upon for some time
me lowest grade ore that the lessee
ships carries l26 ounces silver and y
Per cent lead, anything that fails TO
e average up TO that going over tine
dump. The vein is fIJm twenty to sew
enIy Ieet wide and an almost mex
hdusubIe supply OF ore that in any
oeheF camp would be called high-grade
is exposed.
The famous Day mine is opened by
d smart so feet below the tunnel which
Is zoo feet long and 800 feet beneath
the surface at its extreme end. In this
property there is exposed today no less
IMAM 4uu,vu1 tons OF ore that viii aver
'.Se, according TO smelter returns. be
tween SIS and Sl4 per ton in gold, sill
Yer ana lead values. This ore makes a
perfect self-huXiug material. and the
s-nellefs pay bonus Of 81 a ton to get
Do. From this mine tn the smelter at
roche Is perfectly equipped railroad
Tor The distance of twenty miles. and
Mhen the company gets down to bust
ness the Smelter. which is now Oppr-
a5ed by ledsers. viii be put to work on
ore from the Day mine.
ne raymond * Ely was operated TO
r depth OF 100 feet, where water came
I'm and the character of the ores
changed from an oxide to a suIDhfde
y ne mine has been opened to an ad-
1870 NtN l't4l t- 1Nu LetL. IneSA SuI-
pilur ores carry TO Z per Cent con
per. where none was found above. as
wen as sixty ounces silver and an aver
axe OF more than So i'm gold That the
mine IS not very vet is shown hv the
ldcC that one hours pumping in TWEEN
" -FOUR Keeps the stump clear. A sec
ono ledge has been cut on the / 2OO-foot
IeNel of this nine that runs two or five
Rect wide, ana carries a value i'm All
metals of about $50 per ton.
The Meadow Valley is aDofl,s. e.
NOUS mine one little chimney of ore i'm
il having produced SIC, O000. 1t is To-
caled above and adjoining the Raw
mona d. Ely, and has most perfectly
denned vein that crops out for 600 feat
on the surface
10 enumerate all the good things So
cured down there the gentlemen said
Would take week, and while thew fcIt
IKE talking on they said sufficient bsJ
heen told to give a general idea Of IL ~
NaSJ wealth JhGt was exposed and
10y TOT extraction in the mines now
passing into the hands OF the Afapbat-
tan company. '''i''t L