The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

this and kept track Of the shipment
which was coming by express. The
services OF Billy Klllingly were Sc
cured. He was a little 1l0-pOunder
who thought nothing Of holding up a
stage and helping himself TO whatever
Of value il carried. When the stage
carrying the packages of Greek FIRE
stopped for dinner. Killingly was on
hand He cut open the express sacks B
and Overhauled them until he found the
package for which he was looking.
Having secured this. he took it 10 the
attorney for the Raymond & Ely and
received $500 for his services. Fooled
in this attempt. Chevalier gave up his
fight
Then the Raymond & Ely, as Well as
other mines, had trouble with the men.
Wages were 81 a day. but more was de-
manded In 1872 there was a strike.
Nom union men were employed. The
strikers organized to drive them out.
Four hundred feet below the surface
OF the ground a fierce battle was
fought I'm the Raymond & Ely Many
lives were lost iu the blackness. The
invaders were beaten back and the
strike was broken.
Downfall Of Phoebe.
The long war between the Raymond
& Ely and the Meadow Valley caused
the downfall of Phoebe. as we'll as the
ruin Of some of the principals. Both
mines had passed into hands other
than those of the original owners. Rob
ert +. Morrow. a San Francisco mining
operator. having bought control Of the
Meadow Valley from Phoebe. In 1874
both mines struck water at 1900 feet.
The Raymond & Ely put IN a pumping
plant. In 1875 Morrow secured control
Of both mines. to secure cooperation ln
the drainage of the lower workings, and
Captain II. II. Day, superintendent of
the Raymond & Ely, was made super
intendent of both.
After a few months Morrow made a
mistake which seemed trivial at the
time, but which caused him to lose his
fortune and to make Phoebe a deserted
camp. He discharged Captain Day
and sent ID. NJ. Tyrrell to succeed him.
This one act aroused a bitter enmity.
Captain Day went straight 10 San
Francisco and began working to secure
control Of the Raymond & Ely. There
were 10000 shares in the company. He
secured proxies for nearly 1000 shares.
The key to the situation lay in 1900
shares held by Helbing & Greenbaum,
San Francisco bankers. for eastern
clients. One effort after another TO get
these proxies. promised TO Morrow
failed Finally through a friend who
had influence with the bankers. Cap
tain Day secured the proxies and. in
1876, he went triumphantly back 10
/ Phoebe in charge of the Raymond &
Ely.
AT that time it was supposed that the
twelve-inch pumps In the Raymond q
/ Ely. which had cost $3.50, 900, would not
/ be sufficient to control the flow Of wa
/ ter, and fourteen-inch pumps were be-
| ing put In at the Meadow Valley. The
stock was advancing in San Francisco,
/ and everything looked bright for the
mine. when Morrow wired to Superin-
/ tendent Tyrrell:
/ "Close down the pumps"
Flooded the Mines.
In his rage Morrow had adopted
( doggin-the-mange policy. He thought
I the Raymond & Ely could not pump the
mine out alone, and he proposed to flood
/ both mines rather than let his enemy
gain any profit
In 1877 Captain Day began 10 pump
out the Raymond d Ely. and succeed
ed The Meadow Valley was drained
also. 1t came to the ears of Captain
Day that Superintendent J. r. Dun OF
tine Meadow Valley was preparing to
take out high grade ore from that mine
below the wafer level. In a fury Cap
tain Day repeated the former order OF
Morrow:
"Close down the pumps"
This was done.
Meanwhile the so-called BLACK
Ledge had been discovered in the Ray
mOnd & Ely. This is another lode, car
I rying sulphides. 1t was discovered
that the Black Ledge could be pumped
without draining the Meadow Valley.
which had been closed down. and this
was done, the work being confined TO
: prospecting the Meadow Valley. IN
1873 ]. NJ. Day succeeded his father as
/ superintendent, and continued the
same policy. The Raymond & Ely was
practically the only mine in the camp
which was being worked. II was found
that the sulphides were becoming so
prominent IN the Black Ledge ores
that they would not pay by the ANAL
/. EamatiOn process then in use.
Final Defeat Of Morrow.
In 1879 Morrow again tried to get
control of the Raymond e. Ely, but luck
, had turned against him, and he hit the
slide. At the last moment support on
which he had counted was withdrawn
and he was defeated. C.. F. McDer'
mott was elected president and r. II
Pheby was sent to the mine as super
iutendent II was thought that tho
, sulphides of the Black Ledge might bf
successfully treated by roasting. anc
$50 900 was borrowed from LaZarC
? Freres, a San Francisco Sanker. e
make She trial The experiment failed
and I'm 1880 the great bonanza mint
was taken in under foreclosure bY IN,
bankers and closed down.
/ Morrow had been losing heavily il
} the COmstOcks, and the Meadow Val
Z ley became involved. He made desper
2 ate efforts to save his Phoebe property
+ but i'm vain. Ia 1880 10 was attache,
5 and sold to creditors. Thus within the
, same year the two great nelghborins
s bonanzas felt the heavy hand Of fate
/ They carried with them all other prop
critics. and Phoebe became practically
abandoned.
Those were dark days for Phoebe
{ and they lasted for years. one minl
2 after another was closed down. unit
f not one was working. The Raymond 3
( Ely had built a narrow gauge railroad
! from Phoebe 20 the mill at Bullionville
D In 1855 Bishop Thomas Taylor an,
- GLutrs were ecCAlAl1 10 ASfNAob tttN 49,
q I resources near Cedar City Utah. II
. bought the two little engines AM
, moved them across to Cedar City
= where they are now, half buried In tn
( sand. for they were never used.
b Pioche's Second Funeral.
In 1857 w. S. Codbe Of Salt Lake Wis
+. tied Phoebe and became impressed wit
a. the possibilities of the camp He foun
! 4 that the ore yielded to a leachin
u process which he devised. Enlisting tn
aid of J. B. Clahin, the millionaire Ney
] York merchant, he organized the ri
e oehe Consolidated Mining x Reduction
70 / company, and Phoebe began 10 see IN
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