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Show CENTENNIAL PIOCHE MINE IS WORKING Manager M. C. Godbe Returns After Sinking of Shaft Is Resumed. After having spent several dayt in TJoehe. whore he started work on the Centcnnlalp Ploche. which had been ilde for some time. Manager Murray C. Godbe. returned to Salt Lake es-terday. es-terday. Work was started on the main shaft, which will be sunk to the ore level and drifts sent out. The lime-shale contact is 520 feet from the collar of the Centennial shaft. The top of the first bed of ore, theoretically, should be fS0 feet fiom tho collar of the shaft. The .shaft Is now 490 feet deep, giving 30 feet to sink In lime-shale contact and tn additional 60 feet to tho first bed of ore. All these beds In the I'rhice bear a fixed relaion to each other. They received their enrichment from the same source, and If the Centennial Centen-nial reaches the first ore bM. to get the others is merely a matter of sinking sink-ing the shaft. These beds in tho Prince have been developed for hundreds hun-dreds of feet In all directions, and their limits have not. yet been determined deter-mined The face of every drift in the Trince mlno and on every level, is In ore. The company owns eleven claims, approximating 200 acres. Immediately adjoining the Prince Concolidated. The Centennial Plocho joins the 1'ilnce on Hig south and the east. The shaft Is only 1,400 feet from tho r.-.uin working shaft, of tbe Prince. Tne Centennial shaft is sunk to the east of the muin Prince fault fissure, the rend of the ore bodies In these fissures nnj the dip of the bedded ore plaues are all to tho southeast and toward the Centennial shaft. It is believed be-lieved thai thy source of all this ore lj from a porphyry dike In the east of the property, and the largest and richest bodies of cro will be louud In thrte beds and fissures at or near their Intersection with the dike. In referring to the great dike which cuts through this part of the district. Professor Fred J. Pack of the university uni-versity of Utah says: "Every paylng deposit thus far do- eloped has Increased In richness as the Igneous material (porphyry dike) Is approached, both areally aud In depth. Tho nature of the ore body itself, with respect to Its ralneralogo-ical ralneralogo-ical composition, gives proof of Ig-i.eous Ig-i.eous activity. Departure from this dike, any considerable distance, ha.i meant In every case decreased, and finally disappearance of values; so that now prospectors and mine operators op-erators have learned that they aro very much safer when in close contact con-tact with these Igneous Injections." Mr. Oodg reports everything shows more life and activltv down there than for a year. |