The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-27
IDAHO ENGINEER
LIKES P|OCHE
Robert N. Bell Says Camp Has
a Big Tonnage of SmeIt-
ing Ores.

Robert \. Bell. late mine Inspector Of
the state of Idaho. who went down to
Phoebe a week OF so ago with John A
Kirby and others. has evidently obtained
a mighty good impression of the district
already. Mr. Bell is intimately acquaint-
ed with all the big lead mines of the
state Of Idaho and many people will be
interested to know what he thinks of the
Phoebe camp on that account, II for no
other, and particularly as there are things
in common between some of the mines
OF Phoebe and the big bonanzas of the
Occur d ienes. Saturdays Phoebe Rec
ord contains the following interview with
the well known engineer:
THE Phoebe district impresses me very
faYorably indeed, and unhesltatingly
predict q great future for it as a big ton
mage producer of valuable smelling ores.
OF course you appreciate / have only
been here four days; however, | have
in that length of time been privileged
to examine some wonderfully promising
ore deposits that mean a big future Tor
the camp. The Prince Consolidated is a
veritable bonanza resource of rich. clean,
crude smelling ore, and still in com
paratively shallow stage of development.
1t is on a distinct and independent line of
assuring from that of the old producers
"a mile to the south of them-that may
ultimately prove as productive as the for
mer when as fully developed.
In the opposite direction. mile to
the north of the old mines the Ely VAL
lev property is making rapid progress in
the development of another line of fault
ing. assuring and naturalization of equal
promise as TO surface groupings in the
way of great bodies of iron, gossan as
the Prince zone. and | am OF the opin-
ion that some interesting developments
will be recorded along this zone at no dis
tant date.
Il was also very highly impressed with
the splendid fissure deposits of heavy sui
Dhide ores fifteen to thirty feet in width
disclosed in the Greenwood and Susan
Buster shafts of the Ohio-Kentucky Min
ing company, which have all the ear
marks of making mines of the first mag
nitude and could be put in shape with
a little further development and equip
ment to produce ore at the rate of LOCO
tons a day. To be sure. these particular
ores present a metallurgical problem, and
need careful and intelligent handling, but
in my state. where almost identical mix
lures of lead. zinc and iron sulphides are
successfully separated by water concen-
tration to clean, marketable and profit
abba products-where the silver values
are not half as high as here, and no gold
is paid for. ,.u,.. p,ooAo from,
what I have personally seen, and have
been reliably Informed of at other points
in the old mines now inaccessible, should.
to my notion. mean a steady source and
large tonnage of profitable ore. when they
have been properly developed and
equipped. I fully appreciate that as yet
have only seen a limited area of The
mineral resources tributary TO Phoebe, and
if the weather acts half decent I intend
to spend fully another week here and
take in as many as possible OF the nu-
rnerous other interesting mineral show
ings hear about