Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25
Recent Strike There Declared to
Be An Important One
BY A. H. Godbe.
HE is VERY ENTHUSIASTIC
Orc Shipments TO BE Started--Mili
And Mine Equipment TO
BE Ordered.

Simply boiling over with enthusiasm
IS how Anthony II. Godbe returned
from Phoebe yesterday after having
spent several days In making an eN-
animation of the properties of tho
Prince Consolidated and Ohio Kentucky
mines in the famous camp of southern
Nevada and with the general manage
mont of which he is identified.
"The reports we have mad from
Phoebe about the strike in the Prince
mine" declared Mr.. Godbe today,
"have not been overstated in the slight
est 1t is really bigger thing than
/ expected 10 see and the fact that
the ore is Identical in character to that
taken from the old Raymond and Ely
vein in the early days of the district
impressed me very forcibly. The Ray
moud and Ely mine has a record of
production approaching S20,0O0O00 and
IT is not unreasonable to venture the
prediction that the Prince viii do as
well.
"rhe new vein is about four feet
wide and runs parallel TO the big low
grade Prince vein 100 feet wide.
very rich ore which we are
now sacking for shipment to the
Salt Lake smelters. 1t is a heavy
chloride impregnated with horn
silver and will average from 200
TO 800 ounces m silver, IS 20
$40 in gold. and about 20 per cent lead.
The balance of the vein is not SO rich,
but the whole thing will pay to ship.
The vein was opened first on the 300
foot level and has been drifted on for
more than 80 feet. Cross-cuts have
been started from the 200 level; also on
the 400 level OF the shaft and within
the next 30 days we should have II
opened on the second, third and fourth
levels. The vein Is a we'll defined
assure, and its discovery may be at
tributed to an accident as it was
found in n cross cut run into what
was supposed to be the foot wall of the
big vein, and which carried small
values. The distance between the
parallel veins is about is feet" In tho
early days of the camp, Mr.. Godbe
relates. considerable ore was taken from
trenches along the surface by Will
liam Raymond and John Ely, and
their success created quite a ripple of
excitement in that portion of the
camp for time. Raymond and
Ely, however, did not discover
the existence of parallel veins. but
sank shaft ON what has since been
proved to he the big Prince vein. The
ore encountered was not of a grade suf-
ficient 10 pay in those days and the
property was abandoned and laid idle
until a few years ago when it was taken
up by A. II. and Il. l.. Godbe and Col.
j. ii. Hackett, the latter of Louisville
KY, and a few others, who organized
the Prince Consolidated company. The
character of the ore of the two veins
is entirely different; that of the Prince
vein is heavy iron and lead oxide, but
at 400 feet i'm the shaft sulphides are
coming in, adding more proof of the
10. e.
this depth the vein has penetrated
three formations: first, shale, then
limestone and lastly quartzlte.
Late developments i'm the Ohio Ken
lucky property have been highly sat
isfactory. The Susan Buster vein is
opening up fine" said Mr.. Godbe, 1.-The
strike is easterly and westerly direc-
ton, and is being followed into the AL
berta claim, one of the most valuable of
the Ohio Kentucky possessions. The
vein is 40 feet thick, the ore being
mostly of a milling grade, However,
we viii get good deal of shipping
ore out of it.
You can say that the Ohio Kentucky
and Prince Consolidated mines have
both been developed TO the point which
places them in the front ranks of west
ern mines. They are both big proper
ties and no mistake Between them
we have all rhe ores required to make
Mr. Godbe says IT is planned by the
Ohio Kentucky company 10 install "A
new hoist ana larger air compress
sor at once and by next autumn will
have completed arrangements for the
erection Of mill The need of a larger
hoist and more power at the Prince
Consolidated is apparent and equip
ment 20 replace that now In use will be
provided right away.
Col. Hackett who Is president OF the
Prince Consolidated and also a director
of the Ohio Kentucky, is expected TO
leave Louisville, on an early train for
salt Lake, ana IL Is said that he seri-
ously contemplates making this city
his permanent home The mine devel-
opment has been conducted under the
direction OF Manager p. l.. Godbe and
Supt. william Lloyd
The entire camp OF Phoebe Is in a
prosperous condition and more activ-
jty Is being displayed there now than
mt amy time since Raymond and Ely
were conspicuous figures IN the opera
tlon OF mines there.
ON NJNTNG RXTu MOE