Salt Lake Herald | 1899-08-24 | Page 6 | Antelope Island Copper

ANTELOPEISLAN COPPER ATLOPE ISL Claims Being Worked With Success Excellent Showing Special Correspondence Farmington Aug 23A F Abbot I who was associated with David Leeche In malting the original discovery of I copperbearing ore on Antelope island and who now holds a flaIl Interest In twentyfve or the best claims on the I Island was doing business with the county recorder here yesterday When questioned as to the prospect of his jllroperte becoming shipper he said I that as yet there lad not been suf i dent development work done on any part of the island te definitely determine i deter-mine what wi be thc future ot the new copper region though he personally ally was satisfied with the showing made on a dozen claims where his men had done considerable work One property prop-erty in particular had showed up so I well that he thought It oUld be worked without loss from the surface with a prospect of better are being uncovered I a the work progressed As high as iO per cent in copper had been found 11 Abbott says there are vast quan I i titles of copper ore on the island and I It Is to be found in many places I it Is found that the outcroppings are leads to solid I bodies i of ore below I there do g g tO eb I will be no doubt about the future as outside money will flow In to assist in I the development I The claims in which Mr Abbott Is i interested form a connected group e I tending cross the top of the moun taln tcward the south end of the island is-land The land on all sides of him Is I held by the Island Improvement com I pany of Sal Lake In which corporation corpora-tion J E Dooly and John H White arc heavily interested This company owns a large part of the Island and I mineral I min-eral Is found In paYing quantities their holding will become extremely valuable val-uable Associated with 11 Abbot aro j tessr F Luf and F D Joy of Salt Lake These gentlemen are contemplating j contem-plating putting men to work during the winter and there Is a probability I that their holdings will be developed with the aid or easter capital I