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Show F ANTELOPE STAR HAS BEGUN "HAULING ORE TO RAILROAD The initial shipment of ore from the Antelope Star mine in Beaver county is now being hauled to the loading station at Black Rock, according ac-cording to Superintendent H. L. Parker. Par-ker. About two-thirds of the shipment ship-ment has already been placed at the station and the other third should be there by Sunday. Difficulty in getting get-ting teams to haul the ore is causing a loss of time. Parker states that the shipments are of the mill ore just as it is being broken at the mine and the management manage-ment is shipping it to find out its possibilities. pos-sibilities. It Is all coming from the east tunnel, where extensive development devel-opment work has been carried on for several months. The ore has to be hauled twenty miles. Development work has been opening open-ing up very satisfactorily and a much larger tonnage is now blocked out than was at first expected. He says that he has resumed driving on the lower east tunnel, which will give him an additional depth of more than 200 feet. There are now 50,000. tons of mill ore blocked out in the east and south tunnels. The surface indications all over the Antelope Star property are extremely ex-tremely encouraging. East and west, northeast and southwest and northwest north-west and southeast fissures can be plainly traced over the surface and Parker estimates that a large tonnage ton-nage can be extracted without ever going underground, i Things are now under way to sink the new shaft 300 to 500 feet. It is expected that the management will ; j get to the sulphide zone on the south i hill at this depth. Mining Record. |