The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-21
TALKS OF RAILROADS AND
SALT LAKES OPPORTUNITY
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mas had-a- history interspersed with all
of the romantic incidents which marked
the development of Cornstock In the DAYS
when Mark Twain vas 'ro,yshsnx il -
and mifliens were being taken out OF the
ground by the Fairs and the Floods and
those other pioneers Of Nevada mining.
eut Pioohe for years has been as a place
eeaa, It's former glory has been its chief
ciaim to recognition, Now there are hopes
mat the old glory VIII come back with
added lastes
something over thirty years ago Phoebe
Was typical mining camp of early davs
IoIeuhes made In a day and lost in a
night, poor prospeotors suddenly become
u,;th ano not knowing what to do
Siues. sudden deaths, with no man to
question the why or the wherefore-this
was wa rloche OF generation ago. 1t lasted
blight upon the town, with a revival Some
sixteen years later. Now comes the third
aWakening, and il Is expected this will
oe the greatest or all,
Discovered by Soldiers.
ne first locations in Phoebe Uere re-
Sorued py soldiers, as was the case with
49,. N'vu anu other camps throughout the
Snsi- was IN 1864 that the Washoe and
otdhe INDIANS III southern Nevada be-
came troublesome and General p. g. Con
mgr sent detachment OF soldiers to quiet
1ns redskins. Near Panaca. a Mormon
diarss JUST over the Utah line. the SOL
uiSrs remained all winter Here they met
PIN Hamblin, a character OF the day
Gnu piace, who told them that he had
LOU outcroppings OF mineral charac-
Ha,a q uozeh miles or so north of Panaca
nainniin guided the soldiers to the place
Wit. win the result that nearly every one of
tSuoin located claim. They staked out
tf,ss tracts OF ground and were then or
Claims A'
me discoveries were neglected for five
lars, ana by this time the entire district
Mas open 70 relocation. This being the
Stsse, OLD BIZ Hamblin found two Irish
prospectors and led them over TO the dis
Ticl 10 which he had invited the soldiers
In lae newcomers were brothers, They
rocked around for a time and then To-
caIed claim. calling it the Burke
over at Hike, some fifty miles west of
ms district were three soldiers of for
tune named Henry Raymond William
Raymond and John Ely. They were run
mIHlng mill and handled several burro-
Iodus OF ore from the Burke boys The
ore, yielded 500 to $500 ton in silver.
With, some gold The Raymonds and Elv
mad credit which the Burke boys had not
so the mlllmen took the mine over on a
percentage basis and a shaft was sunk
be1ore the 20O-fOot level was reached the
leuSe or ore had opened TO a width of five
or SIX feet, and all of it a source of de.
Hght TO the eve of miner They then
staKed out more claims and the group
was ca ned the RAYMOND & Ely. II be-
came the richest mine in the camp, pro-
duelng N''OOOOO a year for several years.
Phoebe Enters Field.
The news of the discovery reached San
Francisco late in 1869. F. L. A. Phoebe. a
French banker 0f he Rax Oft u
'ttoffman, mining expert, to investigate
PiOche thenpgrchased number of claims
on the Raymond & Ely extension lode
and incorporated them under the name
OF the Meadow Valley company. This be-
came a producer second only TO the Raw
mond & Ely property
Then came the rush. Frenzied prospec-
tors all but literally elbowed each other
out of the way in their effort to reach the
new bonanza country. They rushed
across the desert on foot; they came over
ON horseback. with their packs on burros
From ComStock, from California from
Idaho they travelled set of Argonauts
on a gold rush which will stand in his
tory with most of the other famous in
Vasions of wealth-laden country
The great days came. Phoebe spread out
into a~-big camp. There was money for
everybody there-and everybody got it.
and most of them spent il as soon as they
got IL Ten thousand persons thronged
the place, Those who still live to tell of
II say that in the center Of town was a
huge canVas-covered arena much like the
tent of circus, where men came from
all over fhs9 Section TO drink and gamble
Drinks cost % cents per installment and
We're considered cheap at that price There
were dance halls. dives, gambling dens
and all of the appurtenances of a real live
mining camp of the DAYS when mining
was young in the west.
Litigation Is Dramatic.
In those early days there were many
fights between the big mining corpora
tons. These were not exactly the same
sort of fights as those which occurred al
most hourly in the saloons and gambling
halls but they were of vastly greater i'm
portance The Raymond & Ely and the
Hermes figured in the most notorious
case. The Raymond < Ely encountered a
fault in its big vein. The foreman of the
mine conceived the idea that, by cross
vein He did so and found it. Then,
without telling his employers, he inter
ested George Hearst and James B. Hag-
gin and they located on the property and
called IL the Hermes mine.
Then came the legal battle which is we'll
remembered by the old-timers. The.
Raymond & Ely claimed the Hermes vein
to be an extension of their vein and
BY winning over the Hermes attorney
with $4,000, and spending sl65.000 other
legal expenses the Hermes people sue
ceeded in winning the suit. Then, after
stockholders in the Hermes mine admit
ted that the vein had belonged TO the
Raymond & Ely and turned it over.
The first downfall of Phoebe came about
through long war between the Meadow
Valley and the Raymond & Ely. Both
mines had passed into hands other than
those of the original owners In 1874
both mines struck water at a depth of
200 feet The Raymond & Ely put I'M
a pumping plant. and in 1875 Robert +,