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Show MAKE NEW STRIKE 01 1TEL0PE STAR Local Officials Receive News of Ore Encountered m the New Tunnel Ore has been struck in the soutl tun nel on the property of the Vntelope Star M n ng company located e ght m les east of Black Rock ln the Lincoln mining i district of Beaver county according to a letter received yesterday from A M Mc Lease in charge of the work The letter ga e the merest news of the strike but s ated that details would be written later Local off c a s are considerably elated ove the news The property Is an o d one that was worked a number of years ago and It has been opened up by three tunne s and bj 71, s"afts Tl e tunne n which the strike has been n ade was started re cen y for the purpose of gett ng g eater depth on the ore that has been exposed on the su face It is in about sixty feet There are nine c aims in the group and the company has been f nanced to carry to comp etlon a campaign of development work that has been outl ned Local offl c a s are conf dent that the property w 11 beg n shlpp ng ore n tl e very near fu ture In clean ng up the old work ngs the miners recent y opened up an old tunnel that had been caved in for years An examination of It was made and ln the bottom of a winze that had been sunk to a depth of 100 feet there was found two feet ot galena ore Tl s w 1 be broken and sh pped to the market in the near future I The Ante ope Star M n ng company is capita Ized for 1 000 000 snares In the neighborhood of 600 000 shares have been Issued leaving 400 000 shares In the treas ury A C Nebeker Is pres dent of the company and Nob e Warrum postmaster of Salt Lake is secretary and treasurer These w th State Senator W N Wil llams and John Matson form the dl rectorate Accord ng to the reports that have reached the local officials recently from the property ore of a shipping grade has been opened up In fourteen different p aces Tl e ore exposed runs between 20 and 60 per cent lead to the ton and carries about thirty ounces ln sliver |