The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-28
CHARLES READ
ON PRINCE CON.
Well Known Operator Declares
Property Is Now a Most
Valuable Mine.

You can say for me in any way you
care to word it. as long as you show
that ] am in earnest. that the Prince
consolidated of Phoebe is a great, big
hlihe- You carr say that there is a
practically limitless tonnage of splen-
ala huxing ores developed in the main
deposit that must yield princeIy for.
tunes before it is exhausted, while the
two parallel assure veins which have
also been opened up can be relied upon
TO add no small percentage to the COM
pany $ revenues when the campaign of
production and shipments is entered
upon in earnest"
This is the statement made by
Charles Read, recognized as one of the
most conservative, best known and alb
solutety reliable mining operators and
expert miners in the state of Utah. No
one ever heard him boast. and no one
ever heard him peddle a paragraph of
hot air in their lives. He went TO
! Phoebe a few days ago with Manager
I Charles A. Quigley of the Studebaker
Brothers company to take the measure
of the Prince Consolidated cOmpany's
mines and incidentally to survey the
| country surrounding Phoebe for the first
time in his life. Mr.. Read has mined in
Nevada for many years, and he is min
ing there yet. being the owner of the
I g
but simply for the reason that it hap
pened that way he never before stepped
| foot in the old bonanza camp of south
eTn Lincoln county. And it is safe to
say that he went down this time de-
| termined to feel fully repaid should he
I find conditions warTanting one-half
what has been repeatedly claimed for
the Prince Consolidated and the camp
in general.
interest i'm the Phoebe country" added
Mr.. Read. 'and 1 never have had; but
! shall have, you may depend on that.
| While 1 did not have time to make ex-
aminatiOns of other properties on this
trip, I found enough in the Prince Con-
/ soidated mines to demonstrate to my
satisfaction that no such property as
( that could exist in a country not val
liable for its mineral wealth But you
1 ought TO see Quigley. RE could talk
/ enthusiastically enough TO tune your
/ nerves for a story that would sound
/ better and appear stronger than any
/ thing 1 could suggest, and l am sure
{ the camp deserves it
Mr.. Read states that the mine is in
shape to produce almost any kind of q
/ tonnage that might be called and
with the rates that have been secured
/ by Manager Z. L. GOdbe from the San
I Pedro company and now in effect, to-
/ gether with a spur road around the hill
3 from Phoebe to the mines. the Prince
! Consolidated, under a fair smelling
1 contract, could. and would, become one
| of the great money makers in this
4 western country. That these things
will be soon accomplished Mr.. Read be
| lieves is just as sure as it is that tbs
I mines are there and that the railroads
and smelteTs viii want the tonnage.
1t is worth something to Phoebe, ana
it is worth something to operators who
are investing i'm that camp. to have
| such expressions and opinions as those
uttered by Mr.. Read appear in colo
! type, as they are honest and giver
/ without any Interior motive behind
/ them