The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-14
VISITOR TELLS OF
P|0CHE DISTRICT
Recent Strike in Con. Phoebe
Is One of Import
anCe.
ACTIVE OPERATIONS
IN MANY MINES
Black Vault Company Awaiting
Arrival of New Ma
chinery.

John Il. Cook, a well.known mining
man of Phoebe, at present looking after
the interests of the Mendha-Ncvada
company properties IN that district, is
visitor in Salt Lake City, having ar
rived from the Nevada camp Monday
morning. Mr. Cook is one of the most
loyal citizens Of Phoebe, and III his
opinion the district is on the way to
developing into one of the greatest
wealth producers of any Western min
ing camp. "Pioche is rapidly coming
10 the front - said Mr.. Cook TO The
Tribune Yesterday, ''for wherever work
is being done. which is the case in
nearly every section OF the district,
the operators are making good. IT
has been a noticeable fact that through
out the depression in the mining indus
try, caused in large part by the low
prices of metals which have prevailed
for some time, prospectors have been
busy IN Phoebe, even when the game
has been at a standstill in other parts
of the mining country. The results OF
this continued prospecting and dcvel"
opment work are now beginning TO be
felt TO a considerable extent, and
Phoebe is being talked about and adj
vertised as never before. Recent de-
velopments in the Prince Con. have
been practically encouraging, and have
stimulated TO increased activity owners
of claims all along the north belt, with
the result that some big mines IN that
locality are now IN the making
Development Work.
Mr.. Cook stated that at the Mendha"
Nevada property operations at the
present time are confined largely to the
further development of the ore bodies
already exposed. No work is being
done in the main shaft at the mine,
but the ore bodies are being followed
AT depth and the results Of the work
are highly encouraging.
Operations at the Black Vault, the
property of which Alex Goliath. for
merly of this city, has charge, and
in which Judge Houtz of Provo is
heavily interested, have been suspend. |
ed for the time being. pending the ar
rival Of shaft equipment and machinery |
for the more extensive development of
the ground. The recent discoveries in
the Black Vault. which consisted of the |
opening up of extensive bodies Of ship. |
ping ore, were of snch a nature as
TO convince The promoters of the prop. |
osltion that IT was worthy of further
attention and interest, and they decided |
to equip the property for extensive |
and systematic work. Machinery for
the mine was accordingly ordered ard |
upon it's arrival it will be at once in.
stalled and work on an enlarged scale |
viii be started
Mr.. Cook spoke also of the late ore |
finds in the Gold and Silver Prince,
which are taken as especially encourag |
ing indications Of the possibilities of |
the north belt of naturalization.
Con. Pioche Strike.
Mr.. Cook stated that perhaps the
most important ore discovery which has
been made in the district for a long |
time past, is the one reported in the |
No. ] shaft or the Independent claim |
of the Consolidated Phoebe company's |
holdings, this being the newly organ
lZed corporation, including the Ohio |
Kentucky and the Nevada Utah ground. |
The new strike, which was the prob
able cause of the recent quiet visit TO |
Phoebe made by Murray c. Godbe, was
made on the 300-foot level, and from |
the point of original discovery, il |
has developed to width of twenty |
feet. The product is good quality of |
sulphide ore. identical in character, it |
is said. with the deposits found at
levels in the old Green.
wood and Susan Duster workings.
The points of discovery in the Green
wood and Duster claims, however, are
l20O feet apart, with the independent |
claim located between them, so that the |
logical conclusion arrived ut in connec. |
ton with the more recent strike in the |
latter is that ii proves almost con.
clusivcly the continuity Of the deposit, |
of which at the least estimate there is |
some 1900 feet. a large percentage
of the ore of the new discovery, Mr., |
Cook says, is of shipping grade, while |
the remainder of it will pass as first. |
class milling product
Mr.. Cook says that there is about one |
foot of snow at Phoebe, and that the |
roads are frozen solid, insuring salts. |
factory transportation highways for the |
remainder of the winter