The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-12-25
ANTELOPE MINE
ON THE HUMBOLDT
Or. EakIn Says Has Improved 300 Per
Cent in Year and 4 Half.

Inspecting mines, hunting wolves
and coyotes land getting them. tool.
| lodging snow storms. assisting In the
capture OF store burglars. staging 20
miles through foot and half of
snow made up only part Of the ex-
| perIences of Or. Allen c. Eakin. Mrs
Eakin and Mrs. f. NJ Brownzell OF
Rockford. Ill, and John w Geiger,
secretary of the Antelope Spring Min
| ing company. the party having return
ed TO Salt Lake Monday evening
The Rockford party started east
| last night The Antelope and Supe-
rior properties In Humboldt county.
Nevada, are largely owned by Rock
| ford people. and this Is the Doctors
| third trip out to the mines. Both Ia
dies are heavy stockholders In the
| Antelope. This was their first trip
into the wild and woolly" west. and
their Nevada experiences were such
/ as to impress them for years TO come.
and still they declare they would not
nave missed II for the world
Dr. Eahn said yesterday:
This Is my first trip to the Ante
lope in a year and n half. The prop
erty has improved fully 300 per cent
a good many of our Rockford people
nave taken a whlrl at mines with
poor results, but | am more than ever
convinced that in the Antelope We
nave a property which will make
good From all appearances, with
little more development work on that
big body of ore blocked out the prop.
erty will justify a mill. and then the
dividend period Will commence. I
believe our property will prove the
first one In which. Rockford capital
has had dividend returns
High Grade Ore.
Secretary Geieer reports that the
miners are taking out ore from the
700 foot tunnel Fifteen tons OF ore
worth $50 a ton are sacked on the
dump ready for shipment to the Salt
Lake smelters. This came from an
upralsc from the No. tunnel, where
there is an immense shoot of ore open,
ed. up 240 feet i'll length, proven up
TO the surface. $50 feet
new tunnel below No. 3 will be
started soon after the first of the
new year. This will give 1875 feet ad.
ditional depth. total OF 1876 feet on
the pitch of the vein, and OF itself
should almost be sufficient to Justify
the erection of the required mill The
mine Is Is miles from the railroad
station of Sulphur. the long, eXpen-
sive wagon haul making the mill a
necessity even with the high class
ores produced by this mine.
While going over the Queen claim,
and about 80 feet from an old 3S foot
shaft the doctor and Secretary Gel.
ger discovered an outcrop of beauti-
ful galena. The ore shows values of
about 75 per cent lead. 40 ounces sill.
yer and so cents gold II is an out.
cropping vein breaking through the
lime country rock. The old shaft.
which was somewhat mineralized, will
at once he sunk to 80 or 60 feet depth
and drift sent out both ways on the
VEN This should bring fine results
Inc queen claim is three-quarters of
a mile from the principal workings,
but on the same vein as No. 2 tun.
mel.
Out of the bottom OF an old incline
shaft, Is feet long. some 900 orc
was taken out This Is on the Beat.
rice claim. 1t Is proposed to send |
In a tunnel here $50 feet. giving 100
feet depth on the vein.
Nevada-SuperIor
The Nevada Superior, nearby. ia also
looking good. Sinking is being done
on the shoot of ore developed in tho
No. 2 tunnel. The pay streak is a
foot wide. About 10 tons of ore arc
sacked on the dump. which Will run
DO per cent lead and rs ounces sill.
yer This will be shipped soon after
the first
The Comet Placer.
Dirt running as high as $40 and
Slo yard has recently been panped
near the principal workings. A bot.
tie containing s64 in gold gave the re.
suits: The shaft making for the hard.
pan is now down 60 feet II IS esti.
mated that $50 feet Will reach bed.
rock. The dirt pans all the wav
down and shows the gold bearIne
black sands. The dirt producing sic
to the yard was found In the same
ravlne and was taken from the sur.
lace while prospecting the extensive
territory.