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Show MINING SECTION PROFESSOR WEBBER ENTHUSIASTIC AFTER EXAMINING Antelope Star Possibilities. Considers It Third Jiisgest Strike in Utah in the Past Five Yeai's. Professor Webber, the noted mineralogist miner-alogist and mining expert, visited Milford Saturday of last week and at once went out to the property of the Antelope Star, twelve miles i. northeast of this place, for the purpose pur-pose of making a careful, examination examina-tion of the possibilities of this well-known well-known camp. A News representative had an interview in-terview with Professor Webber, after his return from the mines, Tuesday evening and found the latter not only pleased, but highly enthusiastic over the conditions he found at the Star during his four days of inspection of the properties. The Professor says that if he should give his unreserved opinion as to the richness and mineral area of the Antelope Star, he would be accused of exaggerating. During his four days stay at the mines. Prof. Webber took careful measurements of the known area of high mineralization. mineraliza-tion. He states that in the short time at his command, he was able to definitely locate and uncover, no less than seventeen separate and distinct dis-tinct openings of ore, and thinks that there are twice that number. He states that the Antelope property seems to be the converging point of a vast number of fissures and breaks in which the ore has been deposited in quantities which stagger one when trying to compute the tonnage. There is one large fissure crossing the property east and west; another one crosses northeast by southwest; half a dozen big fissures cross from north to south. In fact, nature seemed to have just systematically converged all the faults and fissures of the region in this particular pocket pock-et in the mountain. For instance, to give an idea as to the vast mineral treasures stored up in this neighborhood, Professor Webber Web-ber made an estimate of the ore contents of the main tunnel, alone, which is three feet wide and is now in 335 feet. This tunnel is striking for one of the big ore bodies on the south, and it is estimated that it will require at least 200 feet more digging before this is encountered. Basing his estimate on these figures, the Professor estimates that in the tunnel alone, there are 195,000 tons of ore. He found that the portion of the nine claims which is being developed at thra present time, shows an area, of about SoO feet in width and over 1.000 feet in length and of unknown depth, except that as far down as at least. 2 50 feet, there is no sign of diminution in the ore body. While the entire mineralized area covers a strip over 2,500 feet in length and possibly 1,000 feet wide, yet ho gave sm-cial attention only to the portion mentioned above, which, he says, should satisfy anybody for size and richness. It is proposed to sink a shaft to the 500 foot level ami from this basic point, tap all the ore j bodies and find out. at least approximately, approx-imately, the real extent of this great mountain of ore. In tho main tunnel a winze is being sunk near the end of the bore, and a two-foot vein of lead is being consistently followed. The vein dips to the west at an angle of 45 degrees. de-grees. Ore taken from these workings, work-ings, shows as high as 00 to S5 per cent lead, with some silver and zinc. On the south slope of the pocket in which the property is located. Professor Pro-fessor Webber found a fifty-foot vein of white soluahlo lime, rich in lead, and with p.io.1 silver in. I ma 1 ions. At the top of the ridge, en the same slope, examination of an out. Topping which hail hitherto been eonsidere 1 worthless, showed the existence of a large deposit of siliciiied lime, l'etivy in lead, but with vo Iririitm. a mo.-t unusual and th-simWo lavv'.i: ion. Professor Webber foam! in the An!eloiie r.rerty. the sis !!!. essential es-sential to pel-eat lead : ;:lver miv'mv conditions.---bine. gray. ailed-VI. brown. white and eh'-'-t. e- a' ':' that he has oyamine.l over mines in this country and abroad and has never heretofore found the-o six essential limes hi com bms t i. in any one proeorty. The Ant-Mope, says the Pro-osessor. is fin- third biggest strike in 'dadi in lae ais: five years, and of those, he thinks tho Antelope comparable to the Cardiff Car-diff and Tintic Standard mim-s. The company propose. to begin an aettvo campaign of development and. win spend thousands of dollars in opening open-ing up its big ore bodies. In the Spring it is proposed to put in an oil-flotation mill, and thoroughly equip the property with the latest types of machines. Besides lead values, the Antelope Star, in the opinion of Professor Webber, may also show some startling start-ling developments in silver. He told the News man that he could not attempt at-tempt to fathom all the possibilities of the mine, but what he could see, were wonderful in the extreme. Having been over the property several times and peen for himself the remarkably rich and extensive mineral deposits in the Antelope, the News editor is not surprised at the f k . . I JMvv'.J v. W"!.'X r. . y ;-, v; j - --v -Vcv-'-., ; , . ':''.' "'v.; ' Winze and wonderful little Iioist (right) at Heaver Metals Mine. enthusiasm and interest displayed by Professor Webber. THESE WILL BE HEARD FROM. Monday afternoon, the News man visited the Beaver Lake Metals and the Beaver Copper properties, on the west side of the valley, twelve miles northwest from Milford and six miles west of Reed. At the former mine, the reporter found one of the most complete equipments for a property of its size, that can, probably be found anywhere any-where in the slate. A twenty-five horse-power combined Semi-Diesol engine and compressor operates the cages and pumps air for the air-drilis and hoist. And, by the way, this hoist, which is about as big, comparatively, com-paratively, as a postage stamp, is a remarkable little device. Screwed to a steel upright sunk in the ground, it raises from the witize, 700 pounds - - A Ore ,!.") percent lead and -O oz. :.i!vrr, j;;a(i for aiil,:iaaan ( tomorrow, from lleaver Lake Metals iim-s. of ore. eighty feet in one minute, j. The air is piped 250 feel from the engine. A special Semi-Diesol heavy oil. (I'nion Oil Co.) made expressly fori this type and tarnished by tho Mil- ' ford Development Co.. is found to wind; bettor am! to be more economical economi-cal than the other oils titat have hecn us.'d. It is about a twenty-four grav-iiy grav-iiy material. Tl.e cemnal-y has cloac to $?.n worth of ore sa. k.-d up for sisitu.oT,! tomorrow ami d.o eiop-m at v. ork is being rapV.ly '! .1. Cr.' s'-owivr as high as 55 par ,., n; lead and ' oa.a.e- silN.T. i.- being ta'.vea, faean e en allow ti 'i '2 1 - per rem L ad a. n 1 ami is did, led east 2.M f.-.-t vharo it i oxno. t.-.I that it w i'.l i;;t.-r-e. 1 an soethwi a;. The vir.-e on t'-e , -:- -a u it is tli.-.igh! fb.e raaa.in LUimel will striae the log ore body at a .'.-!) of about i"" feet. The wit';;..' v ;! i!it.-reei the main shaft on the co:i-taet. co:i-taet. P:-:f;s .i tlie s --oi, . r i f ,-;th- east of the main tunnel, will also be made for the purpose of tapping the various fissures which converge here. The property is certainly good to look at. and, lying as it docs, in direct contact line with Horn Silver Sil-ver and the other big mines in that direction, its possibilities can only be guessed at. The mine is located in a very highly high-ly mineralized area. Lime Mountain, to the west, toward which operations in general, will trend, is of the same formation as the Horn Silver territory terri-tory and the Beaver Lake Metals will, unless all plain indications fail, prove to be a mine that will be talked about over the State. The company doesn't owe a cent, is well equipped for operations and is backed by live, energetic men. Just to the north of the Beaver Metals, the News man next visited the Beaver Copper, operated by the same management controlling the Beaver Metals. Here, also, is to be found a most complete and up-to-date equipment. The main shaft is down 135 feet and drifts east and west are being made, the tunnels being in about seventy-five seventy-five feet to the west and seventy feet east. There is also a north drift from the east tunnel, in which big copper deposits have been found. Four or five fissures cross both this and the Metals properties from east to west, in addition to the north-south contact, con-tact, and there seems to be no good reason why this mine should not be a huge success. The company begins shipping tomorrow and will continue contin-ue operations with vigor. This and the Metals mines are propositions that can be seen with the eye and cannot be called "prospects." in any sense of the word. While the average aver-age run of ore has been around S per cent, 10 per cent and ,12 per cent copper, still later development work, now going on, seems to point to increased values as the work proceeds. T - MINING. (Continued from Pago 5) k;;i-:ts. American Fork canyon has twenty-nine mining companies drifting and tunnelling. With the production in August reaching 2 0 ,:i 1 1 .1 4 u pounds of copper. cop-per. L'tah Copper has broken all former records. It is now turning out red metal at the rate or 2r,n,i)D0-Ouu 2r,n,i)D0-Ouu pounds per year. Park City mines shipped $6S,000 in ore last week. Eureka Tintie mines shipped $930,000 ore in September. Utah mines will pay $21,500,000 dividends divi-dends in 1916. weekly market letter from New York. The establishment of this price will require but a small advance of the current quotations, as November copper is bringing 29 V cents a pound and December, 2 8V to 29 J cents. The strength of the copper market I lies chiefly in the fact that domestic , eon.iuniers, more particularly ammu- j nition manufacturers, have failed to cover their requirements for the balance bal-ance of the year. Just how much copper is available for November and December delivery is not known, but according to best reports, practically the entire year's production is under contract. The copper trade is now turning its attention to the position of the metal for 1917. The order placed last Saturday for 420,000-0 420,000-0 0 0,000 pounds of copper for the Allied Al-lied Governments, to be delivered during the first half of 1917, it is estimated, represents about one-fifth of the production of the United States for the year. It has been stated during the week that an option on an additional addi-tional 200,000,000 pounds of copper for delivery over the same period has been taken by the Allied Governments. Govern-ments. If the copper production next year is to be 2,500,000,000 pounds of the red metal, the placing of this additional ad-ditional 200,000,000 pound order would indicate that more than 50 per cent of the entire output during the first half of 1917 will be under contract under the combined orders. If there is added to this the business already placed for delivery during the same period by domestic and foreign for-eign manufacturers, it will be seen that a very small margin is left for those domestic consumers who have yet failed to place their orders for the first half of 1917 delivery. Although prices for delivery during dur-ing the first half of 1917 range from 27 to 28 cents a pound, the indicated indi-cated excess demand over production should keep nearby copper at around 30 cents a pound. Obviously much uneasiness exists among domestic manufacturers as to whether the production of the United States in 1917 will be sufficient to meet the extraordinary demands from both foreign and domestic manufacturers, which uneasiness is manifesting itself it-self in the placing of contracts for delivery during the last half of 1917 and is so tightening the position of the metal at a later date that, should the Allied Governments be again forced into the market in the early part of next year for further supplies sup-plies of the metal to be delivered during the Matter half of 1917, there promises to exist during the coming year a copper market on a parity with the current levels. This indicates that, if the war in Europe lasts through 1917, as is indicated at the present writing, the average price of copper metal for the year will be 27 cents a pound or better, on which market the stupendous earnings of 1916 will be greatly exceeded. |
