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Show NEW SHE MM III MOPE STAR Body of Ore Is Found on Bedding Plane in the South Tunnel. Superintendent A. " Xebeker of the Antelope St:'r property, who is in iSalt Lak'e for the holidays, reports tho disclosure dis-closure of a new body of ore in a bedding bed-ding plane in the south tunnel of tins iniiie. A short time before Superintendent Superin-tendent NYhcker laid off the men for the holidays this ore body was encountered encoun-tered in the face of the tunnel. U was followed for tome distance with mo?t promising result 6. Mr. ISebeker said: We picked up this ore-bearing bed at the intersection of a eros-i'issun. eros-i'issun. The ore is following the east wall of the fissure. The bed is a foot wide, with galena all through it. Jt contains a high- . grade streak of varying width. This ore body occurs at tho intersection inter-section of a northwest and southeast south-east fissure with a north and south fissure, proving the gcneraJ theory upon which the mine is being developed de-veloped the theory that the junctions junc-tions of fissures make ore bodies and that the most favorable places for the deposition of ore are in the bedding planes that make out from these ."junctions. We believe that we Ti ot only are on the eve of opening up a good body of ore, but that we have discovered the key to the Antelope Star mine. J What this latest discovery means j may be judged from the fact that ' ahead of the face of the East tunnel tun-nel is one of .the biggest and richest vein junctions on the property, if surface outcrops count for 'anything. 'any-thing. Here not only two, but three, fissures intersect "each other, and so much ore occurs on tho surface sur-face at this junction that we took out between fifteen and twenty tons of high-grade lead ore from shallow workings. "Wo will reach this junction at the present rat"e of i development in about thirty days. Wo will intersect it at a great j depth, and if all present signs do 1 not fail we will open up a body of ore that will be a sensation. According to Superintendent Nebe-: ker, men are working on two other faces on the property. These are, respectively, respective-ly, the north face find the east face in the East tunnel. The north face is breaking into a heavily mineralized limy vein matter that is full of iron and contains enough lead values to put it in the class of "low-grade ore. It is improving ia character constantly. Work will be resumed on the three faces immediately after the holidays. |