The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-21

| Morrow of San Francisco. who had Sc
cured control of the Meadow Valley, took
charge of both mines TO facilitate the
drainage of the lower workings. mis-
take which he made, seemingly trivial at
the time, caused the downfall of Phoebe.
Captain II. H. Day OF the Raymond q
Ely had been made superintendent of
both mines and Morrow discharged him.
Captain Day went Immediately to San
Francisco and began work TO secure con-
troll of the Raymond & Ely After work
ing for months, he finally won over
enough proxies and went triumphantly
back to Phoebe in charge of the Ray
mond & Ely.
Pumps Are Closed Down.
Twelve-inch pumps had been put in the
Raymond & Ely and fourteen-inch pumps
in the Meadow Valley. 1t was supposed
would not be able to pump out the water
without assistance from the bigger
pumps of the Meadow Valley. Morrow,
in his rage at Captain Days conquest
of the stockholders. sent out the order;
Close down the pumps"
Adopting the dOg-in-the-manger pol
icy, he proposed to flood both mines
rather than let his enemy gain any pro-
fit Captain Day, however. succeeded. in
1870 in pumping out the Raymond & Ely.
The Meadow Valley was also drained.
Captain Day then learned that Superin-
tendent ]. r. Duff of the Meadow Valley
ore from that mine below the water level.
In his fury he repeated Morrows COM
mand:
CLOSE down the pumps"
What was called the BLACK Ledge -
carrying sulphides. was meanwhile dis
covered in the Raymond Ely. Captain
Day discovered that he could pump out
the Black Ledge without draining the
Meadow Valley. In 1873 his son, ]. NJ.
Day, succeeded him as superintendent
and he continued TO work the Black
Ledger allowing the mine itself. and
Meadow Valley to remain flooded The
Black Ledge was soon the only. property
in Phoebe which was being worked.
Within two years both mines became
involved in financial difficulties and were
closed down BY $780, the dark days were
on. Not a mine was working. Men were
leaving the camp. 1t was in distress.
Revival in 1887.
These conditions obtained until 1887
when ". S. Godbe of Salt Lake visited
the camp and became impressed with it's
possibilities. Finding that the ose yield
ed to a teaching process which he de-
Vised he organized the Piocne Consoli-
dated Mining & Reduction Co, and FL
Oche began TO see the dawn of another
1889 the Raymond K Ely, the Meadow
Valley. Yuba and other mines with great
ore bodies. The Union Pacific promised
TO build TO the camp and started work.
n SIn6lllnR pant WAS erected at a COST
of $4,000 and a reduction plant at a cost
of $250,000. Another smelter was later
built at a cost of 100000 in a valley two
miles south of Phoebe The Day and
Onondaga properties in the Jack Rabbit
district were purchased, along with 9TH
er mines In all, about 81 800 600 was in
vested. The Barring Bros. in London
failed. there came the drop in silver and
the panic. The railroad was abandoned
the work on mines and reduction plants
stopped, and Phoebe was practically de-
serted
When it was ANNOUNCED by Senator
Clark that the Salt Lake Route would
be built. the third awakening of Phoebe
began. PrOspectorS relocated long lapsed
claims, and mining operators began to
poke about the neglected shafts tunnels,
drifts and wines. and investors wan
dered through the hitherto deserted
streets. Many deals were made and the
sound of drill blast, pick and shovel
could again be heard in the hills
The most important transaction was
the sale of the old Phoebe Consolidated
holdings, including the Meadow Valley
and Raymond & Ely mines. to the Ne
vada-Utah Mines and Smelling corpora
ton, organized by Colonel John Weir OF
New York. This company has been en-
gagged for some time in cleaning out and
ret1mbering the old workings and prepar.
ing for operations on a large scale 1t
has begun clearing for the foundations
OF S5OOOO electric power plant to fur
nish power to all the mines. Other COM
pan1es are also at work and the peopIe
OF Phoebe say another is dawning