The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-01
PARK VALLEY MINES.
Ernest Godbe Is Sure the Camp Has
Great Future.


Ernest GOdbe, who has been spend
ing a week at the Planet property in
Park valley, now being operated by
the Golden Rod company, of which he
is a director, has returned to the city
highly pleased with conditions at the
mine. He reports that development
work is being prosecuted with a good
force of men, and that as soon as room
can be made for them the number VIII
be materially increased. The future OF
the proposition he considers to be no
longer in doubt, and the moment suf-
ficient development work has been
done to warrant it, a mill of generous
capacity win be erected on the ground
to treat the ores.
The Golden Rod company is much in
the nature of a close corporation, less
than a dozen men being interested, but
the work it is doing in the new camp
will do as much as anything to bring
! it to the front. 1t is Systematically
opening its property at three diner
ent points and the results are sucn,
! Mr.. Godbe declares, that success is al
ready assured. This was his first trip
/ into the camp during which he had
! time to study the formations and for n
an intelligent opinion of it's worth,
and he is now firmly of the opinion
/ that many good mines will be found
| there and made very productive anu
profitable.
In the shaft workings on the Planet
property, Mr.. Godbe says, the vein mas
| beeu opened on the 100 $50 and no
| foot levels with most astonishing re-
suits. A faulting of the country on
the northwest side of the shaft had
| evidently confused those who were OPP
Grating the ground previous to its ac-
Quirement by his company, but since,
on each of the levels named the vein
had been encountered and prospected
| for various distances. In the north
west drift on the 10O-level there is now
exposed a full breast of the finest kind
of quartz, a careful sampling of which
| shows it to carry $34 per ton in gold
In The south drift on the same level a
sample taken from the face gave 'e-
! turns of $24 per ton.
! On the 150-foot level the northwest
drift shows a full four feet of $S5 ore
and out in the same direction on the
! lowest, or 170-foot level, an exactly
similar condition exists. The tunnels
being driven to open the other tive
lodges on the property have not yet
developed what the management Is
after, and while some ore has beer
tapped in the Mammoth vein. Mr.
GOdbe said a horse" had made its ap-
pearance and until that had beer
driven through he did not care to tall
of the results already attained at tha
point.
Speaking of the Century, Mr.. 0pdhs
declared that there was a fine showing
in the mine at the present time, Z
showing that must be greatly enhanced
during the next few months. 1t was
no exaggeration, he said, to place thu
amount of ore now in sight at suffi
cient to supply the mill for at leas
two years to come, and he believed
that as the development of the prop
erty progressed many chutes of ricl
ore, along with the milling rock, would
be encountered. They have run through
/ solid body of ore in that mine for
distance of 700 feet, and he saw no rea
son why the same thing should not b
done on the lower, or mill level, wher
the work of drifting through the or
has already begun.