The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-04-18
REVIVAL OF OLD ALPS.
Old Time Producer to Take Place
Among Active Mines Of Camp
Again.

On the list of famous early days
producing mines of Phoebe soon to be
opened up again, is the old Alps, sit
uated about a mile east of the Mead
ow Valley street summit, and long
identified to the public by the gallows
frame which stands over the old shaft
near the road leading to Panaca.
Like many other old time claims its
name has changed through reloca-
tons, and it is now patented as the
Price lode.
Recently Charles S. Shea and asso-
ciates, of Portland, Oregon, took the
property over from it's owners, who
were James E. Price, the estates of
William Lloyd and Alex. Orr, de-
ceased; John r. Cook and T. ]. Os-
borne. The old name is retained, and
the Alps Mining company has been
organized under the laws of Oregon
to extend the old workings in a search
for the famous lost ore shoot which
produced so well, and for independ-
ent development work in the big por-
phyry dyke discovered on the 800 foot
level of the main shaft and which is
a continuation of the Phoebe Yuba
dyke.
The old Alps mine, in the '70s,
though not as big as some of the pro-
ducers in the Phoebe gulch proper,
attracted almost as much attention,
and was equally as rich. Situated
more than mile away from the big
ones and sending out it's bullion of
silver and gold, all the intervening
ground was located and more or less
worked, and not without substantial
results, as the records of the old
Bowery, the Silver Peak and other
claims, also adjacent to the porphyry
dyke, attested, the Bowery having its
own stamp mill at Bullionville for
their reduction of its ores.
The Alps company operated its
quartz mill at the north end of Pi-
oche. It's bullion was shipped by ex-
press. 1t was customary with the ex-
, press company in those days to pile
unshipped bullion on trucks on the
office main floor, open to public in
spection. Every bar was stamped
with the silver and gold contents, and
the remark was frequently passed.
that the Alps is turning into gold
mine" AS a matter Of fact it turned
out richer gold quartz than any other
mine in Phoebe, ano on the 100 foot
level pieces of quartz were found
hung together with wire gold The
ore was rich in silver, too, running
frequently several hundred ounces 70
the ton.
This ore shoot was worked for sew
eral hundred feet along it's strike and
to a depth Of almost 800 feet, when
it appeared to fiatten out to the south,
and was lost.
In an effort to again pick it up the
old company ran a drift to the south
for some 400 feet They failed to
find the lost shoot, but at something
like 140 feet from the shaft cut por-
phyry dyke fifty feet wide. The
value of this asset to the mine wus
not appreciated in those days. Any
ore from it was of the sulphide char
acter, and no means were at hand 10
work it, pan amalgamation mills be-
! ing the only method OF reduction
The nearest railroad point was either
Nephi, Utah, or Eureka, Nevada
! freighting was out of the question.
These conditions are all changed
now, and the changed conditions
lead to resumption of work. With
record of over half million dol
lars production from comparatively
small piece of ground, and being ex
ceptionally well situated on the recog
nized main lead of the camp, the be
lief is strong with those at all &C
quainted with the property, that with
moderate development work, the
property will soon be once more 6
producer of high grade ore.
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