MINING SECTION GENERAL MINING NEWS GATHERED FROM COUNTY CAMPS AND FROM THE MINING CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE Beaver County is One of the Coming Counties of the State as a Mineral Producer, Both as to Quantity and as to Diversity of Mineral Wealth CAPITAL WOllJ) DO WELL TO INVESTIGATE BEAVER COUNTY PROPERTIES, WHICH ARE NOT "PROSPECTS," BUT PROVEN TERRITORIES. PROF. WEBER MAKES REPORT ON ANTELOPE STAR lnU'restins and Illuminating Description Descrip-tion of the Well-Known Mine In a recent issue of the News, reference ref-erence was made to the visit of Professor Pro-fessor J. H. Weber, the noted mineralogist, miner-alogist, to the Antelope Star mine, this county, also an outline of conditions con-ditions as he found them. The News is now in receipt of a full report of Professor Weber's investigations in-vestigations at the Antelope, which will be of interest to the mining fraternity. fra-ternity. The report follows: REPORT OF ANTELOPE STAR MINE By request a visit was made to the Antelope Star Mine twenty miles northeast of Milford, Utah, and nine miles from Black Rock, Utah, and these places are reached by the Salt Lake R. R., and is two hundred and nine miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. , The property contains two hun-I hun-I dred acres; nine full claims and two fractions. There is a good automo-' automo-' ; bile road to the mine. The climate is such that work can be done all the year as scarcely any snow lies upon the ground to impede work. All kinds of labor and supplies are accessible ai uuiu muiuru aim oaiL xjaa.e. Geology , The mine is in the sedimentary rocks and limestone. This was tilt- ( ed and upturned by a granite intru- ( sion about two and one-half miles ( l south, which dips 35 deg. southwest ( and strikes north 17 deg. 20 deg. west. At this time great fissures were made and faults occurred, . ' which are seen now. The fractures run east and west, north and south, southwest and southeast. This cataclysm cat-aclysm stimulated the heated waters In the interior of the earth and the ascending solutions carrying hydrogen-sulphide and alkaline-Bulphides ' were ladened with lead, silver, gold and copper, also charged with barium bari-um and silica, and by accretion deposited de-posited their burden in a large fractured frac-tured zone causing what miners call "a big blow out." There are dolomitic, chert, brown, blue, gray and white soluble limestone. lime-stone. The silica in places changed the lime and silicified it and cut out the barium. The descending waters charged with atmospheric oxygen, organic matter and carbonic acid oxidized ox-idized and leached the ore and rede-posited rede-posited it below and has made a secondary sec-ondary enrichment of the sulphide zone. Breaciation and leaching are seen on the surface and in the workings, and jasperoicl, iron ana manganese . around the ore bodies; There are great deposits of barium with . streaks of galena and cerussite, and In depth no doubt copper will appear, ap-pear, but much of this barium will cut out in a few hundred feet and the streaks of galena will pass into great beds of solid galena many feet wide, especially as the secondary enrichment en-richment of the sulphide zone is reached. The breaks and fissures in this great zone are coming in from every direction, cutting the beds and making mak-ing an ore body of hundreds of feet in width and a thousand feet long. It seems in this great zone the heated heat-ed waters ascending carried so much ore it could not find room to deposit it, so for hundreds of feet in the beds ore has been opened on the surface. Caves, vugs and open fissures fis-sures are seen in the workings which once were filled with ore. but have been leached; yet hundreds of thou sands of tons of low grade ore are left and at times streaks of rich ga- i lena ore which if sorted will pay to 1 ship. 1 Present Workings A tunnel was driven for 175 feet : on the Robert E. Lee claim with 135 feet in ore and still going on. A shaft was sunk sixty-five feet with the bottom all in ore. and by driving the tunnel ahead 315 feet more it will cut the ore 225 feet below the bottom of this shaft. This ore will average over five feet in width and as no cross cuts have been made, one does not know how wide it is. By driving across the vein many feet of ore will be encounteredwhich does not show in the tunnel and shaft. By an estimation of 4 50 feet long. 2 25 feet deep and only five feet wide, the ore body will contain over 50.000 tons of very fine concentrating ore. On the hill are three open cuts In a space of 120 feet wide. In these are parallel fissures and many feet of pay concentrating ore with streaks o shipping ore. None of these cuts is ten feet deep and they all have ore in the bottom and sides. When a cross cut is run at the 500 foot level it will show this 120 feet to be commercial ore. On the same zone are two more open cuts in oxidized ore and leached. This in depth will be pay ore. A white soluble lime reef running north and south cuts through this big zone and in depth will contain ore by replacement. The mountain in a saddle has sagged sag-ged down many feet, showing there are caves, vugs and breaks below which have been leached and the ore gone down. On the opposite side of this zone many hundreds of feet from the open cuts, there is a great belt of silicified lime that contains ore in nearly every piece you break. In depth this will be shipping ore, and even now it will pay to concentrate concen-trate it. There is no baryta in this body of ore. Still farther down there is a shaft fifty feet deep, and in it a southeast and northwest fissure cutting the bedded plains. A cross cut has been run at this point in silicified sili-cified lime ten feet wide, containing lead. From this same zone there is a bedded deposit of lead ore opened in two places with open cuts showing four to six feet of concentrating ore. On the east hill, which was once part of the south hill, but was sev ered by a great fault, and on the Silver Sil-ver Spar No. 4 claim there has been a tunnel run on a bedded deposit for one hundred feet. It shows a body of concentrating ore fifteen to twenty twen-ty feet wide with streaks of shipping ore. This body of ore was faulted. A winze was sunk, on it fifty-five feet with from five to ten feet of ore with much, galena and cerussite. A lower tunnel was driven in 195 feet and the vein has not been found as it has faulted again, but it appears lower down on the mountain on the surface. A shaft was sunk for thirty thir-ty feet on the Silver Spar No. 4 claim on an east and west fissure and it shows three feet of iron and copper. An open cut was made north of the first working and six inches of solid lead ore was opened on October 10, 1916. The bed is several feet thick and it will develop into a large deposit. de-posit. Down the hill west from the working another open cut was made showing a north and south vein several feet wide with lead and silver. sil-ver. There are seventeen places where pay ore has been opened on this property. The veins on the east hill are going toward this great mineralized mineral-ized zone. There are over fifty tons of good shipping ore piled up ready to ship. There are also several thousand tons of good concentrat ing lead ore on the several dumps. Improvements There are two houses on the property prop-erty that will accommodate several men. Also an up-to-date blacksmith shop. The mine is thoroughly equipped with all kinds of tools. Future Development A compressor with a gasoline engine, en-gine, a hoist and hammer drills to work with air should be installed and an incline shaft sunk 500 feet in this great mineralized zone. Drifts should be run to cross this zone south, east and west. With a shaft sunk 500 feet and drifts run to cut the various fissures enough ore should be developed to run a flota tion plant of 100 to 300 tons capacity capac-ity for many years to come. As depth is attained and the secondary enrichment enrich-ment of the sulphide zone is reached more and more shipping ore will be opened up and richer silver values will come in. By auto from Milford one can reach the mine in an hour and one-half. one-half. Water has been developed in the valley one and one-halt miles from the mine, which can be pumped at a small cost. With such a large ore zone and such future possibilities of finding great bodies of shipping ore at depth and almost unlimited bodies of milling mill-ing ore already developed; with so many things in its favor to mill and mine cheaply, surely the Antope Star officers should feel eager to continue con-tinue development work which should put in sight millions of dollars dol-lars worth of ore. PROF. J. H. WEBER. October 11. 1916. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF COMMONWEALTH ; i Five-Foot Vein Struck Which Has Since Widened to Nine Feet In last week's edition of the News, eleventh hour reference was made to a big strike just reported from the Commonwealth mine, adjoining the Moscow, in the Star district. The information arrived too late for extended ex-tended write-up, but later details only confirm the importance of the find. W. T. Atkin, a real estate man of Salt Lake, and brother of George Atkin of the Atkin Hotel, this city, gave the News man an account of the new strike on the Commonwealth, and exhibited some fine specimens of the ores, showing azurite and malachite mal-achite intermingled with the copper. The vein, which opened up at five feet in width, has since widened to nine feet and is found at least as low as 300 foot depth! ' The find was made in the north drift from the main tunnel, which is now in about 1200 feet. This drift left the main tunnel at a point about 600 feet from the opening, following north along the porphyry and limestone strata. After drifting north 200' feet in the drift, the ore was encountered in the soft, blue, soluble lime, so characteristic of this territory. About one hundred feet further along the drift, a four-foot vein of lead ore was opened, samples of which showed over 62 per cent lead and 32 ounces silver. Last Thursday, Mr. Atkin, in company com-pany with Mr. Ingols of Milford and Mr. Garret Wilkin of the Moscow mine, had a thorough prospect of the copper showing made and what was at first a five-foot vein has since, the News is informed, widened to nine feet. Assay shows over 40 per cent copper. There have been other showings of lead-silver ore on the Commonwealth, Common-wealth, from twelve inches to four feet in width and with values of from 20 ounces silver and 20 per cent lead to 32 ounces silver and over 63 per cent lead. It is believed that the face of the drift is the foot-wall foot-wall of a cross fissure showing 20 feet wide on the surface. The vein is apparently running toward the Moscow mine, which has a record of $1,500,000 production. The Commonwealth Com-monwealth is owned by SaltLake men mostly, although Garret Wilkin, of the Moscow, is also interested in the property. The latter is of the opinion opin-ion that the Commonwealth is a big mine. CREOLE'S REMARKABLE RECORD With an initial cost of less than $200 the six months' lease held by Geoi'ge H. Dern and C. C. Griggs on the Creole property in the Lincoln mining district in Beaver county has shipped S2 cars of ore, which averaged aver-aged 51 tons to the car and which netted at the smelter over $40,000, says the Mining Review. This has been taken along a shoot of ore, the width of which has not been determined, deter-mined, and when work ceased there was still left a 12-foot face of ore to work on. (This remarkable record was made without the use of a stick of timber, only breaking the ore across the entire face and shipping it without sorting in any way. PALOMA IMPROVING ; Paloma's main shaft is now down i almost 620 feet. On the 600 level : they are finding some pockets of high grade copper which, it is believed, be-lieved, will equal other ores from the same shaft assaying 44 per cent j copper, 43.6 oz. silver and 11 per j cent lead. Eight hundred feet from j the main shaft, south, a winze has j been sunk and good values are be- ; ing found. In the west drift, on the 600 level, the showing is very fine. Hitherto Paloma's deeper workings have been in the limestone, but now the work is in the monzonite. INDIAN" QUEEN" SHIPPING Indian Queen has shipped three cars and is about ready to ship the fourth. Copper values are heavy and cars are netting good returns. ROBINSON" PROPERTY ACTIVE Four to six tons a day. of copper ore. are being taken from the old Robinson claims. adjoining the Indian Queen. The ore is averaging highly satisfactory. i LEONORA A BONANZA John Matson and Willard Hansen, Han-sen, prominent mining men of Salt Lake, and heavily interested in the Leonora, Antelope Star and East Antelope mines in this county, were guests at the Atkin for a few days this week, while they visited the above-named properties. A new man had an interesting talk with these gentlemen last evening, just before our forms were closed for the week's "run," and found the visitors not only enthusiastic but "too full for utterance" as to all the details of conditions as they found them at these mines. Mr. Hansen, who has been in the game for many years, as has also Mr. Matson, declared that "never since his connection with these local mining properties," which he helped pioneer and develop to their present status, "has he found conditions so good." While too late to give a detailed account of the results re-sults of their investigation in this issue, it may be said in a general way, that the Leonora is a bonanza. This property, which is an old one, was inactive for years until Messrs. Hansen, Matson and others took h'old of it and started in to demonstrate demon-strate their faith that it was a big proposition, a faith that is now fully vindicated. Briefly, the company com-pany sunk a 100-foot shaft, cut north and then east at right angles, a total distance ,of approximately 1000 feet. Here they encountered a six-inch vein of bedded ores and a little further on they ran into a 20-inch 20-inch of the same material. The average av-erage run shows 4 0 to 50 per cent silver, 1 .ounces lead and 1 to 2 per cent copper. Picked samples have run into silver to such high figures as to be almost unbelievable. But this is only a start. The tunnel is now almost under the old workings work-ings of the mine and careful investigation investi-gation has demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that the tunnel will enter, within the next thirty or forty feet, one of the biggest bodies of bedded ores that has been encountered en-countered in the state. The News man will visit the mine the coming week and obtain detailed descrip tion of conditions. Messrs. Hansen and Matson also report splendid conditions at the Antelope and East Antelope properties, and predict sensational news from that quarter, also. HOOSIER BOY CUTS STATION OX 800 LEVEL At the Hoosier Boy mine in Beaver county, says the Herald Republican, the main working shaft has been sunk to the 800-foot level and they are drifting from this station to connect con-nect with the lead ores which have (been opened on the 200, 400 and 600 levels. Some shipments have been made from the upper workings and it is expected to find the ore within a short distance from the bottom station. Manager A. D. Moffat says that they have f o u nd the ore in place in all the w orkings where drifts have been sent out from the shaft to make c o nnections. It has been a good grade of ore that could be shipped direct to the valley smelters and it is located in a portion o the camp where ledges of lead ore have been found previous to the work done b y this company. The first owners found the ore outcropping and followed it for almost 200 feet, when the ground caved. The new i shaft was sunk under Manager Mof fat's direction's and the ore was found on either side of the shaft in two fissures. While no large production has been made from the operations of the Hoosier Boy the indications for a considerable ore deposit have been so favorable at various stages of the development that mine operators in that camp are quite anxious to learn what will be found at this new depth. The finding of quantities of pay ore in the Hoosier Boy at this time would revive mining operations of the camp and should have an important im-portant bearing on the neighboring properties. Hoosier Boy workings are in the hliie lime and those of the Paloma ire in the white lime. Inasmuch as the Paloma company is expecting some important lead developments in the white lime formation, the fact that lead ore occurs in paying quantities in the Hoosier Boy would not be regarded as disproving the theory that the ore also made in the white lime. The thing that interests Beaver county operators most for the moment is the deep mining propositions. proposi-tions. - i