Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-11-23 | Page 8 | Great Find Made in Pioche Ground

GREAT Eli MADE IN PIOCHE GROUND Centennial Pioehc Has Oro and Water Level in the Main Shaft.' General Manager Murray C. Godbc confirmed con-firmed the report on Tuesday that the Centennial Ploclm company had encountered encoun-tered water and ore In the llmo at a depth of 510 feci In the shaft, which necessitates ne-cessitates the inatallallon of moro powerful pow-erful hoisting equipment and water handling hand-ling machinery. Mr. Godbc further stated that tho equipment had been purchased pur-chased yesterday; that It would bo shipped to Ploebe todav, arriving Monday. Mon-day. Inasmuch as word to the above effect ef-fect was not received until Tuesday morning, this quick work on the part of the- company is directly in line with ito avowed lnlcnlion expressed a short time ago to go after tho Centennial resources without gloves, and In the most approved ap-proved workmanlike fashion. This new equipment consists of a 50-horscpnwer 50-horscpnwer hoist, new cago. a complete pumping plant and nil auxiliaries, the equipment standing the company a tidy cash sum. Tho 'significance and Importance Impor-tance of the discovery made in (he shaft arc great to those familiar with Ploche The same geological conditions of the camp arc considerably higher in other sections, this being the first time that oro In shale has been found within the permanent per-manent water level. Engineers have predicted pre-dicted In the past that such ore, when found, would he extremely rich, and the Centennial company Is now on the verge of demonstrating the truth of this prophecy. Local stockholders are delighted with this new turn in the afTairs of tho company.