OCR Text |
Show ANTELOPE STAR'S PROGRESS COUNTS The Antelope Star mine of Beaver county, with the usual ore developments develop-ments which have resulted since the company began operation on the property last October, has been a magnet that has drawn to the district dis-trict eight other strong companies and stimulated them to active developments, de-velopments, prominent among which are the Knight interests, just launching launch-ing a big campaign on their promising promis-ing prospect, the Keno. which sidelines side-lines the Antelope Star, ami on this account is to be actively developed for some of the big ore bodies that are practically certain to be made over from the Antelope Star into this ground. AN" i til such active and strongly supported sup-ported people as the Antelope Star interests and the Knight crowd busy and seven other companies commencing commenc-ing or conducting operations, in a mining district described by Prof. J. H. Weber as the most highly mineralized min-eralized and most promising- mining area he had ever examined, out of several thousand properties that have come under his observation, a full fledged boom is confidently counted on next spring. The Keno. it is learned, has been adequately financed by local underwriters under-writers and work will start here on ground next to the Antelope Star right away. That it may furnish d' -closures . compa ra hie to those of its big neighbor neigh-bor is im:ie;.!.M by the fact ilmt the rich copper zone on the Aetelope Star runs over into the Keno ground. !n one place en i!:e Keno side of The line, the linie-quartzite running over from the Anielope Star has I been opened up show ing from six to eicjlt feel of copper Ol'C. lUUch Of which is rich. Here the Knights will do their tirst work by following this contact vein into the hill. Mm !i of the same kind of rich float in connection con-nection with the gold values running ; up to ?toi a ton in the yellow metal that first attracted attention to the Antelope Star ground is found on his ground adjoining the latter property. prop-erty. Speaking of the developments and showing on the Antelope Star mine, which were the cause of the present outburst in tin1 district. Professor Webor says: ''Ore has been exposed by shallow workings in seventeen places on the Antelope Star. From some of these at the characteristic junctions of fissures, high grade shipments ship-ments have been removed from the surface and 1 am satisfied that with a very little work on or near these junctions that covet the property, not less than thirty surface ore outcrops out-crops could be uncovered. IVsoret. |