Show in time to come according to all indications antelope island in the great salt lake will be the scene of active and successful mining operation it is on this island that the katherine hope mining company J M sullivan manager is doing some extensive development in the performance of which a force of ten men is given employment this is a tunnel proposition and the crosscut cross cut tunnel being run to tap the ledge at a vertical depth of 1000 feet is now dow into the mountain for a distance of feet and it is believed that the ledge will be tapped within a distance of fifty or seventy five feet more the vein is a strong fissure measuring twelve feet in width at the grassroots grass roots the droppings crop pings being traceable tra cable for a mile or more at the s surface this thi 1 s mass of mineral will average 3 per cent in 1 its ts copper contents while it carries some silver and a little 9 gold old in spots the island is easily accessible the water being so low that it can now be reached by wagon moses Tha thatcher lafayette holbrook the K R C chambers estate jacob west and ben T lloyd forming the board of directors and their follow fellow associates in the copper ranch mining company are to be congratulated in contro controlling aling such a valuable mine which has a vein we understand that is over feet in width being a veritable mountain of copper |