The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01
SCOTT MINES BIG
FACTOR IN FIELD
Strong Company Controls Many
Big Mines in Nevada and
Utah Camps.
DEEP MINING is THE
SLOGAN OF COMPANY
Phoebe, Bingham, Rawhide and
Beaver County Mines Now
Being Developed.

a. w. Scott, one of the organizers
and officials of the Scott Mines COM
pany, has returned from the Phoebe
district, where he mado an inspection
OF tho Boston Phoebe mine. n portion
OF the assets of the Scott Mines com
pany. This organization has been per-
fected by several prominent locnl and
eastern capitalists, for the purpose Of
taking over and operating mining prop.
critics in Utah and Nevada. 'aud the or
! gani5ation has made a splendid be-
! ginning. in spite of the fact that little
is known relative TO the possessions of
the company mp TO date.
The company, however, has gathered
together some very large and valuable
propositions. 1t owns the control or.
Phoebe, the Rawbide Northern Consoli-
dated, which owns the north addition
10 the town of Rawhide; Northern Min.
ing property OF Esmeralda county, Ne
VIDA; the Wild Bill of Beaver county
and the control of the TiewauHea lease
at Bingham, on the Bingham Butte
company's territory. In gathering to-
gether these and other interests. the
Scott Mines company has expended the
sum of $i00000 and more. Mr.. Scott
stated yesterday that he had completed
roundup of these various PROPOSE
tions, and. when asked for some infor-
nation regarding them, he said;
salt Lake people know very well
the merits of the Boston Phoebe ter
ritory at Phoebe. the control of which
We secured a few weeks ego. II is
a new producer, and shipments have
been maintained up 10 the time we Sc
cured the control. We intend TO stop
shipments and to center all our timo
and energy on development work. The
shaft is at the 650.foot level, to which
point the ores have been developed.
These ores are high. grade silver.lead,
and we have fine tonnage now block
ed out. We are going TO sink the
shaft 10 the l000foot level before stop
ping TO cut any more stations, and this
work is being rushed under the geu-
eral managership of Earl Pembroke,
the. well known Salt Lake engineer,
Recently when Sam Newhouse Wis
tied Phoebe he remarked the splendid
equipment of the Boston Phoebe, and
praised its ore bodies very highly. We
intend TO become more worthy OF such
high commendation, and TO keep the
mine up in the front ranks of Phoebe
producers. We have a new l00-horsc.
power hoist at our shaft. There is a
forty horsepower hoist down in the mine
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and all the buildings necessary for
long campaign Of development work
The mine adjoins the Nevada. Utah. This
company likewise owns the McFadden
property at Bristol, where we have a
large tonnage of shipping ore available
We viii have TO install a tramway at
this property TO facilitate ere ship
ments.
"The Rawhide Northern property is
one of the show places Of the camp.
In one place the company has opened
twenty-one feet Of milling ore Of first
class grade, while in drilling for water
we went 10 a depth of 600 feet. going
through 127 feet of milling grade sui.
phide ores. which will be worked prof
itably with water and railroad facili-
ties at Rawhide. The property is being
leased to great extent at present,
and we have more applications for
leases than we can give. The West
over lease has one of the best showings
in the district, and a car of high grade
gold rock is ready to be shipped from
this lease. The Reed company, leas.
to depth OF 700 feet, The Golden Fis.
sure lease has four feet of high grade
gold rock, while the Deep Shaft lease
is installing a hoist for going TO depth.
We feel, therefore, very much gratified
over the condition of our Rawhide
properties.
Mining and Milling company was in.
to develop the Wild Bill ter.
rltory IN Beaver county. We have pur.
chased 2 twenty-five.h horsepower hoist
and will sink TO the 600 or 700foot
level Immediately. We also are pre.
pairing the old Beaver mill to treat
these ores. and we have a splendid tom
mage blocked out. At Bingham our
Tiewaukee lease is being developed by
the long tunnel, and we expect to tap
the Caledonia vein, where we will have
45O feet Of stopping ground at our dis
posal
FI might add that the Scott Mines
company owns the Baby mine at Phoebe, |
which adloins and contains the same
vein as the Ely Valley company is now
developing. We are working at point |
within 800 feet OF their lines. The |
company also owns a group of claims in /
Lincoln county, Nevada. and a proup \
at Lodi, New, on all Of which active /
development work viii be continued this |
winter.
The Scott Mines company is incor
porated for 100000 shares of stock. |
par value 81 each only a few shares |
being issued, all practically remaining 4
IN the treasury Local circles have evil |
denced considerable interest in this com. |
panY and its official lineup, but not |
until Saturday would Mr.. Scott talk |
about the organization S affairs for
publication. The company has selected i
splendid mines for development. and is .
destined to be one of the busiest and ,
most profitable Of Utah-Nevada prop.
ositions.