The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-23
ANTELOPE ISLAND.
Sample of Ore Comes In From the
Copper Camp.

Antelope island, in the Great salt
Lake, bids fair to become great min
ing camp and add further glory to
] Utah as a land of metals.
For some time past the island has
received considerable attention on ac-
count of the recent discovery of copper
on the western slope. A more enthu-
s!astic person than Mr.. F. II. Vahren-
camp cannot be found anywhere.
Mr.. Vahrencamp is the pioneer of the
island, having gone there early in
March last to locate claims for himself
and Mr.. c. NJ. Freed of the Freed Fur
niture & Carpet company. The ground
located by Mr.. Vahrencamp consists of
twenty-four claims which will be
known hereafter as the Bald Eagle
Copper company group.
The ledge, the gentleman states, IS
twenty-four feet wide and in an iron
oxide quartz, lying in a mineralized
ledge of matter, commonly called
quartzchisto, and in appearance is sim
liar to the formations in the mines III
the Lake Superior regions in Michigan,
and known there as kellus rock.
The country rock of the new district
on the island is granite and a forma-
ton of cienite and gneiss seems to form
the footwall of the ledge.
The Bald Eagle company IS working
n small force of men, and it is the in
tention to continue the shaft. which
has already been started, down to the
water level, and then start to drifting
to demonstrate the width ami general
nature of the vein.
Mr.. Vahrencamp brought in with him
a lot Of fine-looking samples. He would
not state the values they contained,
but he was free to assert that if any
one wanted to have them assayed, the
samples were here. and they could do
so. But judging from the appearance
of the samples on exhibition at the Office
Of Broker Higgins. the values in cop
per run pretty well up, along with
smaller values in gold and silver. So
far as the exploration has gone, Mr..
with depth, and the vein increases in
width. The ore in the present diggings
was found under the wash
Lumber is to be sent to the camp in
boats from Saltair beach. The ore be-
ing taken out of the shaft is sorted and
put to one side for shipment as soon
as transportation facilities can be Sc
cured on the waters of the lake.
Don H. Porter of the Hotel Kenyon
is also interested in a number of claims
adjoining the Bald Eagle group. and
has a small force of men at work.
DR.. SAKE and Milo Clark of Mercur
are also working claims on the islands.
w. W. Mitchell and others from Salt
Lake have located claims, and expect
to do development work.
Mr.. Vahrencamp has followed pros
pecting and mining for at least twelve
years, and has had considerable exper-
fence among the mines of Michigan.
With the showing now evident, and
with the application of labor and cap
ital, the gentleman feels confident that
in time Antelope island of the Great
Salt Lake will become as famous as the
upper peninsula, the home of the ia
nous Calumet ecla mine.
Ed Warren and Joseph DIETRICH, the
well known contractors and millmen,
have become interested in the new dig
gings, and have located claims 'contig-
uous to the Bald Eagle group.
1t is said W. A. Clark of Montana
had two experts on the ground a few
weeks ago. making an examination of
the new camp, and that they went
away favorably impressed with the
outlook there.