The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26
P|OCHE MINES
NOW bONAhzAS
Many Properties Ready to Sup
ply Shelters With Heavy
Tonnage of Ore.
PRINCE is TWO MINES IN ON
NEW AND RICH LEDGE OPENED
IN TIE DAY MINE.

Five or six big mines in the camp OF
Phoebe, New, and thel district sur
rounding that old bonanza camp are
now ready to supply the smelters with
a tonnage OF ore that will equal, if it
does not exceed, that of any other dis
trict in this region, barring, of course,
the mammoth low-gTade copper
camps. Some OF the Pioche mines
have already commenced to contribute.
and several carloads of ore a day are
now being billed out over the branch
of the San Pedro railroad that was fin
ished into camp late last fall. Among
the mines that are ready to cut loose
may be mentioned the Nevada Utah,
the Prince Consolidated, the Ohio
Kentucky, the Mendah, Boston, Pr
oche, Bristol Consolidated and some
others that cannot be called to mind
for the moment. Attention has often
been directed to the fact that this old
camp was going to boom, and il can
be said now that every minute during
the past year has been fruitful of de-
veloping ore bodies. the extent and
richness of which are little appreciate
ed by the outside world.
Prince Is Two Mines in One.
Probably the most sensational dis
cOvery that has recently been made in
the camp has been the opening of an
entirely new vein in the Prince Con-
solidated, mention of which was made
a couple of weeks ago. The main.
ledge is this remarkable property is
more than $50 feet wide, and it has
been opened and developed to a depth
of 400 feet 1t has been demonstrated
that every pound of ore in this mon
ster ledge, owing to it's remarkable
fluXing qualities, will pay handsomely
to smelt, while through the mass are
great ribs of ore that, in silver and
lead values, are entitled to be claSsed
as high grade. This ledge is filed
with a heavy, black sulphide ore, with
an irOn-manganeSe base. and its eX
tent is such that, when the time
comes, the company viii be able to
'glory-hole" mine it with steam show
els, if it is considered desirable to do
it that way.
But the new strike. Anthony H.
Godbe. one of the head men of the
company, says it is of sufficient i'm
portance to justify the declaration
that it viii make big bonanza mine
in itself The ledge is several feet
wide on the 3O0-fOot level of the prop
erty where it was accidentally discOv-
cred through having a crosS-cut run
into the foOtwall country for the pur-
pose of demonstrating whether the
main ledge was not encased with
false foOtwall. The cross-cut was run
thirty feet, or twice the distance or
dered, and the ledge was opened. 1t
was found TO carry a rich yellow
chloride ore. samples of which show
all the way from few hundred up to
more than 1000 ounces of silver per
ton. After the discovery was made
surface prospecting disclosed the fact
that the ledge was the same as one
that was mined in the early days to
shallow depth. and which produced a
fortune In selecting a place TO sink
deep shaft, the early-day owners got
off of this ledge and started down
within the limits of the big ~black
ledge. where the ore was different and
not rich enough to mine then. 1t was
then believed that the character of the
ore had changed, and work ceased. Mr.
Godbe states that this vein will be
opened on the 200 and 400-foot levels
within another month. 1t has been
nearly reached on the 200 level now
but more time will pc required on the
400, as the main ledge has to be cross
cut from the hanging wall side to
reach it. Mr.. GOdbe believes the new
ledge will produce millions in rich ore.
New Strike in Day Mine.
Il learned while at camp" said Mr..
Godbe yesterday, that an entirely
new vein has also been opened up in
the Day mine. at Jackrabbit, one of
the big properties of the NeVada-Utah
company. There has been nothing re-
leased concerning this discovery, but I
understand that the ledge is a big one
and that the ores are richer than any
thing ever found in the Day mine.
Bodies of rich ore, l understand, have
also been opened up by the manage
ment in the Raymond & Ely and
Meadow Valley mines of the company,
while the BOston-Pioche and the Men
dab are also in line for making a
record that will attract a great deal
of attention. The OhiO-Kentucky, of
course, is opening up more ore than it
will know what to do with for years
to come, even though a smelter is
built at camp to accommodate it, and
there is no question but what smelt-