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Show Antelope A Wonder Will Be Heard From, ' Shortly The Antelope Star, located about eight miles east of Malone and twelve miles north-east of Milford, is preparing prepar-ing to ship two car loads of low-grade galena ore within a short time, averaging aver-aging $20 a ton net. Attention is directed to this property through the visit, last Sunday, of Professor Weber, the noted geological expert, w ho stopped over in Milford a few hours on his way to the mine in question. Professor Weber, after spending the day in a most searching examination of the territory covered by the nine claims of the Antelope, was, to use the expression of one of the miners at work, "clean up in the air'' over the conditions found. According to this noted expert, the Antelope people have a property the producing capacity of which is impossible im-possible to estimate at this time. Even what can be seen, both on the surface and from the four or five tunnels now piercing the mountain, the professor oelieve: that the area of high mineralization miner-alization on the south slope cannot be ,esi than 400 by 800 feet, while throughout through-out the remainder of the property, the showing hemes a guess. The ore is of ooth high and low grade quality, running from Ifc to bo or even 20 for low grade and a splendid shoeing of 70$ to 80fo high grade galena, with t small amouut of silver. Professor vVeber is said to have stated that he considered the property at least a Jiiiilion dollar proposition and he thought that a conservative estimate. Hearing of the professor's visit, a NEWs representative visited the Antelope An-telope Star property on Wednesday n.d p n -nally went over the grount:, ,u company with official of the company. com-pany. All the workings were enterec. and examined and the NEWS man w as ully convinced, by personal cbseiv-ition, cbseiv-ition, that the Auteiope Star is a wonder. From the very grass roots down as .'ar as any work as been aone, 'which is a considerable distance, one sees ,ust galena, on every aide, over head, jnder foot, glistening wa.ls flours au tiling of fine ore, with apparently no mit, the senses are bewildered with che richness of the m:ne. In the sout I lope the tunnel is in about 90 feel ana being d. it led Biithtly to intcis t c ne nortuwest-squthea-tt fissure. The ground is comparatively easy to work, and good progress is bein made. Timbering will have to be reported re-ported to, shortly. This apears to be the low grade deposit, de-posit, principally, and there looks to be i veritable mountain of it. On the lorth slope, the longest tunnel is n 200 feet and they are expecting to trike the east west fissure any day, probably not over fifteen feet remaining remain-ing to be pierced. Up here, almost 7000 feet above sea level, the tunnel resembles one of the anious robber caves of the Arabiai Sights fame. High grade ore is imply crammed into every niche and irevioe in the mountain, ore running at high as 809& galena. There cannot oe said to be any "prospects" ft r a rood property herej the ore isac ual y in sight and of such area as to baffle a lescription of it. A few days ago, an tld man was seen wandering over the property, closely examining the ground, aud on being asked what he had lost, replied that be had lost this rich property. He stated that 58 years ago he had been over that territory and bad seen the possibilities, but had never returned to take advantage of the And. About forty years ago, a little prospecting was done, but it remained re-mained for the present owners ;o wake up to the significance of the -howinj, secure the property and be-g.n be-g.n development work, aud their energy en-ergy and enterprise have been rewarded. re-warded. The company has erected cook house and bunk house and have sufficient force at work to maintain good progress. prog-ress. It is probable that, later on, a mill will be erected, as water is available avail-able and of sufficient quantity. A. C. Nebeker is President of the Antelope Ante-lope Star, Noble Warrum, postmaster nt Salt. Lake, is Secretary-Treasurer, and D. A. McLease Superintendent. ; These, with U. S. Marshal Aquila Nebeker, and State Senator W. N. Williams, form the directorate. E. II. Haveuor, a mining engineer of Salt Lake, has also made a favorable ' report o t the mine. From a nou-iuteresled examination of the i roperty, the NKWS predicts l that Antelope Star vrill, shortly, he - the most talkea-ot ga enact. mp in this staoa of the couuay. |