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Show FIVE LARGE VEINS IN ANTELOPE STAR Days of large prosperity are dawning dawn-ing for stockholders in the Antelope Star Mining Company. Its resources are exceeding the expectations existing exist-ing before the recent exploitation directed di-rected by Engineer H. L. Parker who not long since was engaged in getting get-ting this estate into productive form. ' He has reported to officers of the company that ore is in transit to the railrojid over a good wagon road rapidly. rap-idly. The haul is nine miles. This shipment, Mr. Parker explains, is a good grade milling ore, carrying 15 to 17 per cent lead. This consignment consign-ment is going to the smelter to test the possibilities of the property. He believes this ore will average $20 per ton, while lead commands 9c per pound or more. This ore -comes from the east tunnel tun-nel bedding-plane, which is cut by an east-and-west fissure, and is traceable 1,000 feet, and the vein itself shows, wherever it outcrops oiij the surface, overflows of mill ore. The south tunnel is driven on aj j southeast vein, and is in 275 feet, showing a good grade of milling ore nearly this entire length. It is also I opened 500 feet on the surface by small shafts ten to sixty-five feet in depth. In all these openings there is shown a good grade of milling ore, Mr. Parker declares. At least eight or nine ore-bearing fissures on the property are opened an the surface at intervals on the strike, and these openings are in a fnir grade of milling ore. All these surface openings, as well as the tunnels, are making their magnificent mag-nificent ore showings in the leached zone, the company's officials are advised, ad-vised, and Mr. Parker concludes that underneath is a magnificently large zone of secondary enrichment which it is exceedingly desirable to reach. He believes that when this is accomplished accom-plished Antelope Star (which as it stands today is occupying the position posi-tion of a great mine in the making) will undoubtedly disclose riches' so great as to make all its leached-zone ore deposition, great as it is, seem infinitismally small in comparison. For the purpose of opening the zone of secondary enrichment, Mr. Parker has recommended that a working shaft be sunk at a most strategic point, i-h 3 intention is to ; sink this shaft until ft shall have gone below the leached zone, which will permit extraction of the ores from the areas of secondary enrichment enrich-ment under all the. parts of the mine in which these splendid bodies of ore have been disclosed in the leached zone. Thus five distinct and very large veins, each one of which is in itself a mine of prodigious proportions, propor-tions, will he tapped at depth sufficient suffi-cient to create production sources on many levels on all live veins, their yields to be hoisted through one shaft, and from the top of which the various grades can be economically carried to either the mill-chute or the shipping-ore bins. |