Show Ii GLORY AND ITSmBRiL LllNTFUTUR13 I 1 1 I r 4 < P 7J YI f i j tf ft C 1 O 2 > f 1 l I il = t > I > t t t < t t i > iI < > = 1 i l i j i < 1 f < tl W 1 > w l t > g c b r I 4It I 4 0 > r < J iY 7 t r C < C j tI f d i > < If > t > i i 1 1 l 1 t j t t o a i > T if W > r < 4 4 I I Godbe Smelter ns at Present RaymondEly people a good deal oC trouble was J 13 E Cheynller owner or i claim called the Kentucky located lo-cated on a vein of manganese above the RaymondEly It was before the Hermes Her-mes incident that he conceived the notion no-tion that the Kentucky vein might he the apex of the RaymondEly Realis ing the Importance that possession jnight give him he hesitated to bring his claim Into court but he did seek to gain possession of the workings of the other company with a view to miIcing them the plaintiffs In a suit With this end In view he let what was known as alighting a-lighting J contract to Date Nngle who afterwards shoL Judge Terry In Lathrop I while acting as United States marshal Jsagle WOK to sink an Incline shaft on the Kentucky to connect with the fourth level of the RaymondEly and J when the connection was made the plan was to enter the level 1 with an armed force and drive out the miners at the muzzles of rIfles Other Sides Was Wise Fortunately for the RaymondEly their attorney who Is l now practicing In Salt Lake had a private Information bureau of his own and one of Hie 1 underground under-ground wires of this bureau was connected con-nected with the Kentucky Dy this means he kept In possession of all that I is doing in Chevaliers councils and knew the plan in which Naglc was Interested In-terested almost as soon as that worthy did So while the Incline shaft was being be-ing put down the RuymondEly force was hollowing out a large chamber on the fourth level about where the Incline would break in This chamber wa walled with arjuaieset tlm > ers with heavy planks or lugging to USe a technical I term behind them Naglo and hip force worked on In blissful Ignorance that their scheme was known to the enemy until the Ray mondEly workmen heard their chots within a few feet of the chamber It was then that the attorney carried his counterplot Into effect Being well acquainted with Nagle he had no dill culty In making an appointment In a secluded spot after dark The meeting took place as arranged and the attorney < attor-ney opened the hall by saying Meeting With Nagle t I lOre I were you Nagle I would not come any closer to the Raymond for If you should happen to break In sometime some-time you might not get out again What do you man asked the other with cllfeignctl sin prise Oh you need not pi ctend you dont know what I am talking about I have known ever since you look Hint contract con-tract that you were aiming at our fourth level and Intended to make a fight for the workings so we opened a large chum tier unit under you and lined iL with timbers and lagging It is stocked with giant too and 1C I you fhould happen to drop In on us someday some-day the chances ale we would blow you clear out of the top of the Kcntuckv Hhaft The speaker described the operations on the Kentucky so accurately that further denials were useless and Nagle admitted that his plot had been discovered dis-covered But what am I to do he asked after making the admission I have agreed to do the Job for 5000 and if 1 hack out I wont get the money Perfecting the Scheme You must get the money by all mrnnH replied the nltorrey and I dont know l but what w > might throw In a little ourselves In addition Mnc Chevalier pronlse YDU rome moie If yon I can The moie money he spends the leas l he will hive left to right us with Now listen to inc Go ahead ns if nothing had happened When you getup I t get-up agalnyt our lagging get some hookii and sciew them into the plonks UH > 3Cievu jnlnd you for If our men hear you driving nails they are jUt as apt to blow you up aa not and a little aptrr When you get the hooka screwed In attarh your cable and break away the lagging Then shot all you want to but dont climb down We will do our lihare of shooting but will he caie ftil not to hit anybody When you have user nil the ammunition you can afford af-ford withdraw In good onler and collect I your money moneyTired Hany Shots Rather than lose a go < d Job Xagln as nonlcd to the substitute for the original plin and subKCquenU meetings were held at which the shnm battle was arranged ar-ranged for oven to the smallest details The whole plot was carried out with mathematical l 1 precision The attorney mid some of the olllcers of the Ray mon Ely were the only men of that mine who knew the Inside of the affair A detail of a dozen mlnern who Were ordered to repulse the invaders acted I In good faith and Imagined hat they I were engaged In a genuine battle They d 1 mood In the mouths of converging drifts near the big chamber nnd wheie they rould not shoot Into the bottom of thu t Kentucky shaft or be shot from them The Ingoing was torn away acordlng to the programme nnd the attacking party poured a terrific ih c Into the wallw and floor of the station The concealed minors returned volley after volley of Dually harmless lead At a pjvcon Certed signal given by the attorney the Invaden retired and the garrlcon hrrsrd Into the chamber Ilrlnff right aol lolL The owner of the Kentucky deplored the failure of the altiuk but never fiuapocicd the counterplot 01 the genuineness gen-uineness of the battle and paid over the 5000 without a murmur Force having failed h roaohcd to try lineage Plans to Smoke Them Out The outlet to hIs shaft being much higher than that of the RaymondEly he correctly surmised that gas would be carried by the draft down the higher high-er shaft jinrt up through the lower one With this natural law as his cue he determined to burn Greek lire In hlH workings drive the men out of the Raymond with the gas and follow the retiring gas with his force of fighting men But he counted wllhout the information in-formation bureau of The clever attorney attor-ney The latter learned of the new scheme a few hours after it was conceived con-ceived and took immediate steps to circumvent it Sent for Killingly He learned that the Greek fire would be purchased from a certain drug llrm In San Francisco nnd sent to Ploclie by express but he had no means of knowIng know-Ing Just when the goods would arrive To avoid a surprise he had the waybills way-bills of the WellsFargo Express company com-pany telegraphed entire fion the nearest near-est railroad point for two weeks On thc last day the bill contained the Item Drugs to J JX Chevalier The attorney at once sent for Billy Kllllng ly a little Englishman who weighed less than 110 pounds but was gilt all the way through He had made a 1 noble effort to live up to his name and was reputed to have held up several stages In his time although he had never been convicted of so doing To IClllIngly the attorney said Ordered to Get the Package The stage will stop at Blank station for dinner at noon The driver and 111 the passengers t will go into the house leaving the stage unguarded Then you will climb Into the boot and cut open the express sacks until you find the package labeled drugs and addressed to Chevalier As soon as you get 1L climb buck l on your horse and bilng It to me Several horses wore specially pio vided for the occasion having been stall fed and exercised for weeks prior to the denouement Billy was concealed con-cealed with his mount near the station sta-tion when the stage stopped The driver for some reason or perhaps it I was n coincidence was less careful than usual and the party was at dinner din-ner for a long time Delivered the Goods With the sharp dagger in hand Billy got into the boot and slashed away at the express bags lie tumbled over the contents without ceremony and at the third or fourth slash exposed the object of the robbery A few sec onda later he hud the rowels In the Hank of his pony and was racing away toward Ploehe In his saddle bags reposed re-posed two large blue glass bottle labeled la-beled Greek fire It was a case of Greek meeting Greek These two bottles arc still concealed at Ploehe one on the premises of the attorney and the other near the site of the RaymondEly office Chevalier Had Enough Kllllngly received 300 for his share In tho transaction and the work proved to be worth the money for Chevalier acknowledged his defeat and abandoned his designs upon the RaymondEly lode Nothing was ever said about the robbery rob-bery by the express company Bullion Bul-lion robberies were so frequent about that time that the theft of a small package of drugs did l not count labor Troubles Not the least of the troubles of the bonanza mine owners at Ploehe were due to the dissatisfaction of their employees em-ployees The prevailing rate of wnges for miners was SI 1 per day Meals cost 75 cents lodging SI and board 10 pcu week On several I occasions during dur-ing the youth of the camp the miners min-ers wanted more pay or objected to some of the rules and regulations A union was organized and In 1872 the first great strike occurred It culminated cul-minated In a battle 100 feet under fit ound in which several of the union men were killed the attacking party repulsed and the strikers so disheartened disheart-ened that thoy gave up the struggle forthwith Fight in the Dark When the strike was declared the RaymondEly people refused to grant the demands ami filled their workings with nonunion men It I was to dislodge dis-lodge the latter and to capture the mine that the I attack was planned An armed party of several bundled stilk eis descended through a disused shaft to the fourth level of the mine and proceeded driving the nonunion men before them until about half way to the working shaft where a fotce was mustcrcd to oppose them Neither side dared to display candles or other lights so the lighting was done principally prin-cipally In the dark Lying on the floor hiding behind limbers and hugging hug-ging tho walln the combatants fired doWn the corridor guided by the sound of the firing from the other side or a hurried aim by the Mash of powder Tlv suffocating smoke did almost as much as the lead of the defenders to drive back the strikers The casualties weie not known until after the battle When lights wore brought in and half a dozen dead men found on the ground Pumped Both Mines Next Importance to the Raymond Ely mine was the Meadow Valley which was purchased from Mr Ploehe and others by JBob Monow who took out M000000 from it Both these mince struck the water Jivel I aboUt the same time and the same depthlOO feet Production could not then be continued without pumping apparatus so the RaymondEly company expended expend-ed 2OOOO for a pumping plant This drained the mIne and did morcIt 1 drained the Meadow Valley workings Tin operation of the plant Involved considerable cxpense and when the RaymondEly discovered what It was doing for Its neighbor It Invited the latter to stand Its proportion of the expense Mr Monow refused I to entertain en-tertain the proposition being confident that thin other company would have to drain his mine an > way but the RaymondEly company had found that the character of the ore changed Horn a free milling to a refractory sulphide at the water level and this discovery coupled with the independent attitude of Morrow induced them not to pump I and to close down the mine The gathering t waters soon climbed Into the Meadow Valley stope driving out the miners and that mine was forced to an Involuntary shutdown Ordered Pump of His Own Monow Hgured out that he could drain his workings which were above the Raymond without pumping a gallon gal-lon of water from the latter mine therefore just to show that t he was a good fellow he ordered a fine pump I had It shipped to Torino and contracted contract-ed to have It hauled 100 miles to Ploehe at 10 cents per pound The engine and pump columns did reach thair destination destina-tion but the boiler and other parts of the plant were dropped at various places along the road and remain thereto there-to this day half covered with grass and sand Left tho District Mr Morrow had made the same discovery dis-covery as the RaymondEly tore below the water was a hard proposition propo-sition and could not be treated under m the stamps Hence lIe had no more use for a pumping plant than he had for a gold harp and a pair of wings Shearing a good round oath that he vould live to see the grass growing In the streets of Ploehe he packed his varsack and fanned the breeze to San Francisco where he long after resided re-sided Heavy Expenses The RaymondEly did not give up so easily although It was a heavy loser In 1S71 the company had put in a railroad rail-road twentyone miles long to Bul lonvllle where there was plenty of water and no less than seven mills lad been established In the morning the cars would go down from the mine loaded with ore and In the evening they would return carrying the valuable valu-able properties of the rock In the form of bullion Both railroad nnd mllhi became be-came almost valueless with the ohange In the ore Seme of the experts said the smelter would do the work and the company made some experiments along that line at Piochc hut the trial was a failure Moved the Railroad The Bulllonvllle railroad was operated ope-rated by spasms until 1S77 and In 1SS5 It Vas purchased by Thomas Taylor who pulled up the rails and carried steel engines and cars to Cedar City Utah where it was proposed to build n line to the iron mines This scheme fell through and It Is said that the remains re-mains of two locomotives coaches and box cars may still be seen at Cedar all that is left of the once prosperous Nevada line Cause of Decline The end of the original boom was hastened by protracted and expensive litigation betwoim the Meadow Valley anti RaymondEly which would fur nnh material for a book all by Itself the Influx of waler the alteration of < the ore a nIl the decline In the price of silver Mine after mine closed down until the district where twentyone blatant whlstr > had once summoned the miner to his toll was as quiet asa as-a churchyard at midnight anti even quieter for the ghost failed to do his monthly walk Districts Revival The names of lohn B Clallin and W S Godbe the formera merchant prince of Now York and the latter a Salt Lake mining man are intimately associated with the second revival of mining in Plooho Mr Godbe who visited the district In ISSi was Impressed Im-pressed by the vast quantities of valuable val-uable silver 01 e that remained In the lower levels of the great mines and Jet to work to devise a system by which It could ha turned to a profit After some experimenting with different differ-ent processes lie found that the ore yielded to a leaching treatment The success of this experiment gave promise prom-ise of great returns and enabled Mr flodbe to Interest a number of capitalists capi-talists In a m scheme for the operation of the abandoned mines Not enough capital could be raised In the West to curry out Mr Gndbes plans and he Interested Mr Claflin in the enter pilse In iCES and 3KSO he bought the Meadow Valley RaymondEly I Tuba Mazeppa Pioche Phoenix and other claims Jo thq number of eleven and erected a smolllng plant at a cost of 1SO000 Coal being us rare as diamonds dia-monds In the country ohaicoal was the fuel used It was burned on the adjacent hills and cost the company Ifl cents per buphcl What coke vas needed was transported from Suit Lake by rail and teams Invested a Tor tune To Increase the efficiency of the smelter a reduction plant wan put xip at a co toC 5210000 After all this building WIIi done It lat found that the cost of hauling the ore up hill largely Increased the expense of operation ope-ration so a second smelter was built on the Hut two miles south of PJ > > 1 oche This coat 5200000 About the same time Mr Godbe acquired mining properly at Jack Rabbit and constructed construc-ted sixteen miles of railroadto liins port the ore from the Day ami Onon tinge mines to the i new mill The railroad rail-road cost a million 11 Drop in Silver These improvements I were extremely expensive It I 1 Issuld that Cluilln and his friends put up nearly SlSOOJOO from which they did 1 not icnltzc over iCO000 but Mr Gcdbes ideas l WIMO I good and the Investment would ultimately ulti-mately have pi oven a good one save for an outside element lint I had never been consldeied When the mills railroad rail-road and mines weie all in good running run-ning order null the outlook was extremely ex-tremely cheering to all conceined the mints of India wire closed to silver anti the Sherman silver purchase law was icpealed In the United Slates In a few days the I price of the metal 1 declined de-clined from S7 to 00 cents Piocho Hit Haul The blow fell hoivlly on all tile silver sil-ver mining reel Ions but nowhere was It felt more keenly than lu the reviving re-viving camp of Jioche Mr Clillln rmild see no pibabllity of futuie ptollt wlih m 1 silver at CO con in and refused 1 to advance another penny lie relni b rd his friends who had gone Into the enterprise on his advlre and declared de-clared that he would have no mora uf It The Plorhlans saw the returnIng return-Ing piosperliy I of their camp wither III a day and mourned with t Clatlln When Congress at the behest of Pro s Ident Cleveland lepculed tho Sherman law the buildings of the town wore draped In I I blnek the t band paraded tho I streets playing a dirge asi 1 a smile was aa hard to Und iu an Icicle In the tropics Coming Up Again The carefully and expensively orgin Ired 1 1 system of mining and Kindling built up with 5 < o much thought and labor on tlc part of Mr Godbe foil like a house ol cards and the Lincoln county capital began another period l of hibernal fiom which 1 It I IF aiiMn I slowly emerging Last year A 11 Lewis the Iuih l mine operator acquired the holdlngo of the Clullln syndicate Including I the smeller I and the railroad to laekiubblt Though It has not been regularly used for a long time the railroad is still in good condition Anyone who eares to pay the expenses can got a permit from the owners and Hiarler a train to Jackrabbll from Ploehe Old Mines in Bad Shape The old mines are badly I run down at the heels The underground workings of the deeper properties are Illled with water and It Is said that I with a beat L man can traxel l over four mllas at the 00fcot level of the RaymondEly and 1300foot level of the Meadow Val icy Timbers have given away drifts iive fallen In and the measureless caverns cav-erns once thronged with regiments of 1 nisy miners and resounding with the ring of steel on steel l and the heavy roar of ston inulcd artillery are stirred only by the hollow echo of falling rocks uul collapsing earth Ore There Still Yet the treasure houses of the gods have not been rilled of all their richcj Every old slope every dump and even the waste heaps of the stamp mills carries car-ries tons of mineral once discarded as uslo which with the application of modern methods and economical treat nent will replenish the mighty stream of wealth that bus almost ceased to flow And far In the ground beneath the dark sluggish waters of the burled sea still eposes the giant vein of sll rer that 111 1 filed the stamp mills of the earlier days but will yield readily to the more persuasive embrace of the up todate blast furnace This vein has been followed for more than a mile In the lower level of the RaymondiIOly where it Is forty feet wide in many places A recent assay of this grade fore f-ore returned SJ t in gold twentytwo ounces In silver JS per cent lead and Iii per cent zinc It la l the latter element that makes all the trouble for the ml ilng for it takes a great amount of flux more than the district affords to overcome the resistance of the zinc There are two ways around the dIll culty One Is to ship the ore to some f > Jr t I oI = it J 7 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I f r 1 1 I J < < J tJ ii 1 t i j 1 1l9 r i t J Jr > I or i II JtT 11 i CiwJWOlJf + P to t1i lIpr J ij 1 lr I I 2 r o r = t Shaft House Meadow Volley No 1 smelting center where thoro Is lead for flux In abundance and the other to ship In enough load l ore to bring the refractory refrac-tory substance to the fusing point What the Railroad Menus Both these remedies It will he ob vjrveil depend entirely upon transportation transpor-tation Hence the Interest felt in that section over the projected lines from Salt Lake City to Los AnyeleH The extension of iha Oregon Short Line to Cnllontes brings Ploehe nearer TO the outside world than It has ever been I before The survey bus been completed ho and the grade thrown up within four miles of town Its location will prevent the main line front touching the city but a branch will doubtless be extended to tap the mines Whether the railroad will be used to ship the ore out or coal and flux In Is an undetermined question ques-tion and one that will probably be solved by experiment Either outcome Is sufficient however to insure the profitable operation oC scores of mines now lying Idle With such possibilities It is not loo much to predict that something of the oldtime rush and activity will be re I stored to Ploehe and the aplrltn of tho pioneers will look fiom their abode sometimes generalities live better than personalities upon nn Improved edition edi-tion of their old haunts But the old bonanza cnmp with Its fortysix pti loons two breweries four theaters three daily papsra giunbllnghouscH and dance halls Is gone forever Even the buildings have In many cases been hauled away It Is said that a half do7Gu adjacent mining camps have been established with structures that formerly for-merly graced the streets and avenues 01 Ploehe1 |