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Show PIOCHE CAMP RETURNS TO LIbE WITH SOLVING OF ITS BIG PROBLEMS The more recent history of Plochc, Xev., has boen ono of trials and tribulations tribu-lations calculated to discourage a patience pa-tience of the Job variety, but the lane has at laat reached the turn, and one who Is charged with tho task of relating relat-ing these difficulties from year to year finds himself confronted with achievements achieve-ments for the first time, and without the regrettable necessity of making promises and predictions. Ploche has worked out Its own salvation after tiring of delegating delegat-ing this duty to others, nnd it has clone a very good piece of work. Ploche has the Godbe interests to thank for bringing about the rejuvenation of the district throughout 1912. These interests owned tho Prince Consolidated property, long known to contain an enormous enor-mous quantity of developed ores, but ores of sufch a low-grade character that the lack of adequate transportation facilities fa-cilities prevented the oro from being realized upon. Railroad and Market. The camp likewise needed a market for Its product, and up to 1912 thero had been no available shipping point. All this became altered when the International Interna-tional Smelting & Refining company built its large custom smelting works at Tooele. Utah. This smelter needed exactly the kind of ore tho Prince had for solo, and tho International company was willing to contract for several hundred hun-dred tons of It daily if tho Prlnco officials offi-cials would solve the way of getting it to the ameltor. II ore Is where the. Prince officials, nnd the Godbe brothers of Salt .Lake- In particular, par-ticular, took the initiative and got the J100.000 together which was necessary for the construction of a railroad Hue from PJochc to tho mine. This road was completed during' the year and shipments ship-ments began to .tho. smelter at a rate of 300 tons dally or better. The Prince Consolidated Con-solidated company has been aending its ores to Utah by tralnload, whllo the company, demonstrated beyond question the value of the BulHonville tailings, of which the world has heard far more than it was ready to believe several decades, de-cades, past, by shipping thousands of tons to Utah at a splendid profit. A deal was consummated during the I year for the control of the Prince Con- I tolldaied company, which parsed to the I Charles E. Knox Interests of Nevada and I , the east. Mr, Knox. John A. Klrby. William H. Webber and A. Y. .Smith were elected as directors to fill the vacancies caused by tho resignation of a like number of former directors, tind In the late fall Mr. Smith ax manager assumed th charge of oncratione. Many Properties Busy. The railroad constructed by the Prince company penetrates a splendidly mineralized mineral-ized section of the district which has been held back for many yeara by the lack of transportation, and as a result number of nropcrtlcs have been restored re-stored to the active column with others to follow without delay. In this particular particu-lar section of the camp r.ro the Deml-John. Deml-John. Mendhn, Eastern Prince, Prince Extension. Plochc King. Golden Prince. Ploche Metals and a number of others now In line for a thorough development. develop-ment. It now remains for the Nevada rUtaa interests to bring about a final settlement settle-ment of Its numerous difficulties to restore re-store to the useful column one of the richest sections of the entire Ploche district. dis-trict. The Nevada Utah has gone through a wide variety of hardshlna 'and uncertainties, uncer-tainties, but it appears likely that 1512 will witness order restored to Its chaotic situation Just as the Prince In 1912 removed re-moved tho final obstacle to prosperity. Regular shipments of oro throughout the year havo been made by the Day-Bristol Day-Bristol Consolidated company, the management man-agement finding abundant -material for t reaping net profits both from tho old ' dumps and from continually Increasing i tonnages in virgin grounds. So prosperously pros-perously has th management handled this proposition that tho surveys for a tramway have been completed, and the contract for the project doubtless will be negotiated quickly. This tramway will solve one of the most troublesome questions for the Day-Bristol, that of economical and satisfactory ore transportation, trans-portation, f Home Run Copper. Next to tho Day-Bristol Is the Home Run Cooper property, one of the great discoveries of the year In Nevada. Tho Home Run wa acquired by prominent Salt L,akc Interests early In the summer, nnd the company became a shipper almost al-most within tho week of Incorporation. The Homo Run resources occur In fin-sure fin-sure veins which, in their passage to depth, mineralize the limestone formation through which they make, affording a series of caves of extremely rich copper, silver and gold ore. The company Is marketing Hs product fa6t an teams can bo obtained, and at the present time the mipply of team Is wholly Inadequate. In-adequate. The mino workings and ore bins are continually overflowing with the ore. and the officials are now encaged en-caged In the procces of solving this problem. prob-lem. The Home Run adjoins the famous Gypsy property, from which long ago was taken millions of dollars In mineral wealth, the ores occurring exactly ns in tho case of the Home Run. and along the same fissures and In tho same lime formation. The Home Run elves promise of being a dividend payer In 19irj. |