The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-19
.COLFAX STRIKE
IS SIGNIFICANT
Owner of Pi0Che'S Latest Sen
SatiOn Tells of Development
That Surprised Camp.

few days ago a special dispatch TO
The Herald from Phoebe told of a sensa-
tional strike that had been made by Z.
f. Prudential in his Colfax group of
claims. Notification of the disclosure
came few days later. and yesterday Ed.
Prudential himself who arrived in town
Wednesday noon and pulled out again last
night, smilingly told of the prospective
bonanza he was proving up
We have had such stormy weather
since the strike was made" explained the
visitor. that IL has been impossible to do
much. When / left camp we had got
started however. and the men had hole
ten feet deep in ore every ounce of which
was being sacked as it came out. Sam
pies taken show that it will average over
200 ounces in silver per ton, with little
lead. The silver values occur in man
gancse gangue apd the significance of the
thing is that this is complete reversal
of the usual conditions prevailing in the
manganese veins of that region. In the
Prince Consolidated. for instance. where
the big black lode averages high in man
ag2nese the silver values run low. The
COfaX is the first property to show high
silver values under such conditions.
The ledge is q big one and a contact
between pCrpdyry and lime. This ledge
runs for 500 feet through the Colfax
group and numerous holes and open cuts
have been made along the strike to re
move the debris and prove the presence of
the lode About L4G0 feet from the point
where the rich ore has been opened up
on the COlfsx. we have five feet Of fine
ore exposed and by any by we shall begin
sinking at that point. | have had several
offers for this property already, but
have not entertained any of them seri-
Ously as yet I want to have more time
to make explorations on my own account.
before determining what shall be done. ]
have twenty-three claims there and they
are SO located that they fully protect the
big ledge from the danger of litigation
in all directions. 1 believe we shall make
one OF the biggest bonanza mines there
in the country"
Mr.. Prudential is also Il larger owner
and the mana ser Of the Lucky Star com
paay's property which is located close
TO the Day mine OF the Nevada I tab COM
pany. at Jack Rabbit lie states that on
the east end of the Lucky Boy claim in
this group a tunnel is being driven in on
the vein in WiiiCs has been encountered
fine body Of ore that samples 40 per cent
lead and fourteen to eighteen ounces sill
Yer. At another point. twenty feet lower
down. ne is opening up ore that samples
- TO 20 per cent lead and twelve tn fifteen
ounces silver per ton. An operating tun
mel is now being driven to crosscut and
develop the several lodges THAT outCrop
in this property. u is now in distance
of nearly 200 feet and it will not be long.
Manager Prudential says. until he be
gins to reach the veins through this ave
nue.. When that happens it will not take
long to provide stopping ground and per
init Of mining on an extensive scale
Don't you worry about Pioche,' said
Mr. Prudential in parting. we have the
best miuerdi-bedrins country on earth
down there and we are getting the right
kind Of men and ample capital to make
and open up the mines as they deserve
to be"