The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-17
ORE SURPRISES
IN PIOCHE CAMP
Credit Given Ed Prudential
for Making First Move That
Got Things Started.

Modena, Jan. 16.-R. c. Lund Of Phoebe,
New, passed through Modena today and
if half the stories he relates of the camp
are true, and no attest is needed in Mar.
Lund's descriptions. Phoebe is forging TO
the front most remarkably. OF condi-
tons, new developments of merit. columns
in The Herald could hardly do justice to
the new, but yet old. BONANZA camp
Ore surprises are now Of such frequent
and daily occurrence that a detailed de-
seription would fill columns of space.
Foremost and ''front-most'' in the on
coming tide of progress in the rehabii-
tated Arcadia. stands the large and pOrtly
figure of big, generous Ed Prudential.
New mines may develop-OlG ones open up
new faces appear-and new records be
made, still the indefatigability of this one
parsonage projects like an electric push
button, that once pressed brings all the
demands of the times instanter-
IN 1899. Prudential, contrary to the
usual inertia that governs the promoter,
got busy and began to ship the ores of
Phoebe and Bristol. His slogan was,
Damn the assay sheet, but show me a
smelter settlement"
He did that He shipped some twenty
carloads of ore from Bristol in 1893 re.
gardless of expense OF profit, but to
show substantially the real values that
existed. His efforts, that finally induced
most mining man of Utah, Samuel New
house. the coalition of A. 3. Bear's east
ern friend and final coalition, cementins
the enterprises and opening up Of the
country. require no comment One fact
remains In the foreground of Pioche's
present successes looms one large. pcrtly
and genial figure, recognized. adored ana
revered from the humblest miner to the
closest mining investor of Boston and
New York-worshiped by his fellow
townspeople-big, generous Ed Freuden-
thai. Let the transient investigator go
to Phoebe, that fact impinges upon his
intellect at once-the main guy, the
dominating foree-despite the aspirations
of later comers-is that big Ed holds the
boulevard.
G. Y. Young, secretary and treasurer
Of the Escalante Gold Mining company
operating the old Holt mine, east Of Mo-
dena. has gone to Denver to look after
the shipment of machinery to put the
property in first-class shape. Predictions
as to the successful outcome nave peeh
made regarding this property for num-
Der of months. and owing to the last
panic the efforts of the management
were badly Handicapped. Recently sub
stantial assistance was obtained, and q
new hoist and substantial buildings are
! in course of erection. Inside OF three
months the property will enter the ship
ping class and be perhaps one of the
first to make substantial record, al
though modest all the way in its first pre-
| tensions.
John T. Breckon. in charge of the Utah
| Gold & Copper Mines company, whose
properties are at fremont, thirty-five
| miles north of Modena, passed through
| Modena yesterday The property is show
| ing up exceptionally, ore being exposed in
/ a number of places fully four feet in
width, and the efforts of this well-known
| engineer are being directed to developing
/ the bodies and stripping them. prelim-
/ mary to shipping as soon as the wagon
WAYS will permit in the spring. The feas-
| ibility of all this has been determined.
/ both as to precious metal values per ton
and the future of the property, which is
no longer in doubt