The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-08
BIG ORE BODIES
IN HUMBOLDT
Sampling of Nevada Superior
and Antelope Springs Very
satisfactory.

Returns from the recent sampling
OF the ore bodies in the Nevada Su-
perior Mines company and the Ante
lope Springs Mining company, made
by John W. Geiger. secretary and
manager, when out to Humboldt last
week, have come in, and are extreme
ly gratifying. A carload of high-grade
from each is being sacked for ship
ment.
In No. 2 tunnel on Nevada Superior,
about 500 feet from the portal snd
$50 feet vertical depth on the vein.
returns across the four aud one-half
feet face as follows: Lead, 41.6 per
cent; silver, COS ounces; gold, so
cents. The vein splits about 25 feet
back, and has spread. giving two pay
streaks. The highest values have been
found on the left channel which is
following the hanging wall. The foot
wall has not yet been cut. yet the
right vein has been followed about 40
feet, the V-shaped vein matter be-
tween being near 25 feet across. A
carload OF this high-class ore is now
being sacked in preparation for ship
ment to the salt Lake valley smelters.
Big Stopping Territory.
The tunnel cut two other ore shoots.
At 5S5 feet it passed through one
Learly 100 feet thick. This ore runs
1875 ounces silver and 81 per cent
/ lead. AS this shoot has been proven
from its outcrop on the surface down
$50 feet, it affords a tremendous
body of fine milling ore. The high
grade shoot from which the shipping
ore is now being taken Is also prov
en- to the surface, giving a large stop
ing territory on that rich body. This
work IS all on the Emma and Elk
chequer claims.
The company is now figuring on a
concentrating plant or a small smell
ter to take care of the great bodies
of lOw-grade. With this end in view
half car from each the Superior and
the Antelope was shipped TO Minnea-
polls to give the Fink smelter there
a try. If it proves satisfactory, the
intention is to erect a small Fink
smelter on the ground at a cost Of
probably $4,000. If not. mill will
probably be erected in the early
spring. Except on account of the slow
returns from the test carload sent to
Minneapolis. a mill OF some kind
would probably have been put up this
fall.
Antelope Springs.
Sampling by Mr.. Geiger Of the raise
on No. g tunnel on the Antelope
AAASS PiOPIAA y was CQOdAAt cdNAS-
factory. About $50 feet in the tunnel
is the 40-foot raise. Two and one
half feet Of the face on the south end
Of the raise went lead. 1875 per cent:
62S ounces silver; 40 ounces gold.
This is about $50 feet from the sur
face where the same high values out
crop. The ore, making in the lime,
in a big rich shoot, extends TO the sur
face. where It is exposed in a large
open cut. The back OF the same raise
carries values of 33.2 per cent lead,
32.4 ounces silver. 80 cents gold. Tun-
mel No. has penetrated nearly zoo
| feet of ore which eXetnds to the sur
/ face. A winze so feet deep has been
sunk below the raise, which shows
ore down TO the bottom. This sink
| ing was discontinued on account of
water coming in, and no equipment to
/ handle it. but 1t went to prove that
/ the Antelope has not less than 300
1 feet of stopping territory on more than
one big VEIN
The management now contemplates
going $50 feet further down the
mountain and putting in tunnel No.
TO tap this winze and give still more
stopping territory.
The two properties are in splendid
physical condition. with ali the ear
marks of making two big milling
propositions and are only awaiting
/ the advent of the mill 10 prove this
/ fact