The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-30
OHIO-KENTUCKY
BUYS GROUND
Secures Property at Phoebe
That Is Almost Invaluable
to the Company.

The Ohio-kentucky company. operating
az Pioehe has just completed the pur-
chase OF the eight claims belonging 20
the Nevada-Pioche company. for $4,000
ana through the deal secures holdings
mat are 10 prove Invaluable 10 the pur-
chasers. though il is not known that the
ground Itself contains a pound of ore.
Mines Manager Ernest j.. GOdbe stated
yesterday that his company had been ne
souatlng Tor the property for some time,
because, W0ile the ground had not deVel-
oped ore. IL was located on the town side
or the range and adioined the Indepen-
cent and Panaca claims, which are joint
~ owned by the Ohio-kentucky and Ne
fada-Dtah companies and which lie be-
tween the holdings Of the Ohio Kentucky
group proper and the ground bought.
There IS 400-foot dOuble-cOmpartmen
smart, splendidly equipped with hosting
machinery, a long drift into the hide
pendent ground and a 3OJ-foOt Wine down
IN ore, which the Phoebe Record. back in
4ef4i reported as being sensatiOnally high
Grade. Ia addition, 1t gives the COM
pany splendid millsite facilities almost in
the town OF Phoebe and provides quick
means OF reaching out into and opening
the big porphyry ledge in the Alberta
claim of the Ohio-Kentucky group. direct
" west OF the company's famous Susan
Buster and at an additional depth Of
go feet IN the latter claim.
According 10 Manager GOdbe the pur-
chased ground originally belonged to the
Pageant-Panaca company. The shaft was
sunk and the drift was run south 500 feet
or more into the Independent ground. The
rich vein was cut and the WinZe was sunk
IN il. but the old Nevada Consolidated
company learned that the ore did not
belong to the Regeant company and il
was not allowed 10 mine IL. This Wine
has since filled with water but later
when the NeVada-PiOChe company got the
ground, the drift on the 400 level was sent
farther south. When this company final
IN went TO pieces and q man bN the name
of Greenwood fell heir to the property.
some more work was done and the IA
mOusl nde pendent lode was cut Green
wood could not mine il. because he did
not own the Independent. and the Ohio
Kentucky company finlly secured it. as
stated. The ledge where the cut has been
opened was found to be over twenty feet
wide every foot or il being in sulphide
ore that Mr. GOdbe states will average
S2o per ton. while considerable of IL is
a high-grade galena shipping rock.
Now let me set YOU right about the
much-talked-of black ledge, said MI
GOdbe Yesterday. As a matter Of fact.
there is no such thing as a black ledge
in the camp. There is "a great shoot of
black ore in the Independent ledge that
has been opened for 800 or 6e0 feet i'm
length. and it is this shoot and rs char
acteFistics which cause folk to talk
about the black ledge. The drift into
this claim from the property Just ac-
quired cuts through 10 the west of the
black shoot in absolutely virgin ground.
The ledge il has opened We propose to
begin working i'm right away. and just
as soon as we can get around TO il the
winZe will be pumped out and We shall
see what has been developed by the old
timers there At the same time We shall
continue the drift south into Alberta Vein
and then drift east 10 the Susan Buster
and connect with the shaft and great ore
bodies opened there. All the ore from
these can be taken through the drifts
and raised in the shaft on the purchased
ground and milled or shipped direct. as
the case may be, without having to carry
the ore across the hill. The closing of
this deal puts US in shape 10 begin mining
as soon as things are arranged TO" it,
and no time in that respect will be lost
We now have an outlet for the ps&luct
Of our mines right where We have needed
il. and fl makes our position an 10 be
desired"