The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-11
P|OCAE CAMP HAS
GREAT ORE BODIES
Mayor Bransford. James Far
reIl and Col. Holmes ALI
Pleased Over Visit.
THE PRINCE CON. A
GREAT BIG PROPERTY
Splendid Bodies of Smelling
Ores Point to Future
Success There.

A party Of prominent Salt Lakers
consisting of Mayor John S. Brans
ford, Colonel Holmes and James Far
rell, has returned TO this city from an
inspection of the Phoebe mining dis
trict of Nevada. Each on Tuesday eX
pressed to The Tribune the utmost graf
i6cation over the trip, and all predict
ed great things for this famous old
camp of the SagebruSh state. Mr.
Bransford, when asked for an inter
view, said:
81 am very favorably impressed with
Phoebe and It's mines. We visited sew
eral mines and we saw a great amount
The camp is lively, and the people ap
pear stirred up to develop the mines as
never before in the history of Phoebe
Among the mines we visited was the
Prince Consolidated. which, in my opin'
ION, is d fine property. The Prince is
clean-cut proposition, containing q
very. very large tonnage Of base OF
smelling ore, and several assures OF
bigh-grade ore. The Ohio Kentucky
company has developed splendid ton
mage of smelling ore il the Zero vein.
This. mine impressed me very much.
HOur interests down that way are
in the Phoebe Pacific territory, prop
GliN tu NulCu We dlC olDhlAS W Lu'
400,foot level. and in sinking we en-
countered q streak OF ore that ranged
from L TO l5 inches The rock would
ship somewhere around $50 to the ton.
We are going to begin drifting on the
4QO-foot level as soon as we get there TO
encounter this and other veins that
cross our ground. -
Mr.. Farrell stated that Phoebe looked
better TO him than ever before. The
hills all around the town are alive with
men at work. and last Saturday even
ing the streets were more crowded, and
with happy people, than he ever saw
them. In the Susan Duster mine Of the
Ohio Keu tucky company he saw an i'm
mense quantity OF smelling ore, while
ore than he has seen anywhere else for
ulany j year. The Prince has great
body of splendid smelling ore, while
the recent finds of fssures full of q
shipping grade OF silver-lcad ore i'm.
pressed him greatly.
My opinion is more positive than
ever" said Mr.. Farrell, "ithat the
Prince Consolidated company has big
mine, and | am more than ever i'm
pressed with the future Of all the Pio-
cue district, Our own property, the
che-Pacifc, is busy place, and we
are going to the 400-foot level before we
ginning to drift OF crosscut. We ex-
PecJ 10 soon eaten inc zero VEN, III
which the Ohio Kentucky company has
developed such q fine tonnage of smelt.
ing ore.
'iOn our way back we stopped over
at Caliente long enough to take a good
look at the new gold strike near that
iown, The strike appealed TO me as
being very fine prospect, aud for the
amount OF work done they have made
a good showing. There is developed a
body Of gold ore ranging from three 10
four feet in width, and several pieces
/ selected showed free gold
When seen by The Tribune represent.
atlve, Colonel Holmes did not wish TO
express his opinion owing to the long
time that has elapsed since be took a
trlp INTO mining camp, and he deemed
his fellow visitors TO Phoebe more in
p.actce. But he said. however, that
PIoche had great future, that went
as matter of course.
The old camp is attracting much at
tentlon IN the mining world right now,
and the new blood that is developin o
zome OF the famous old producers are
Zoing after the resources left by the
,ld-tlmers IN a workmanlike manner.
Ion must remember said the col
opel, THAT Phoebe has produced be-
tween forty and fifty millions of dol.
lars worth of ore, and that was at a
time when the nearest railroad point
WIS at Eureka. Naturally much ore
was left untouched which now can be
saved by the mine owners.p