Show 31 1 IF tah the BOW H V ITS geological i GENESIS I 1 from an economic and geologic view the B w H mine is of unusual interest to mining 1111 ing men and students of natures simple yet wonderful methods with a afew few exceptions the geology of the B W H section is the geology of the entire northern portion of the mt baldy range which includes gold mountain and the great mineralized area lying west of marysvale Marys vale utah well along towards the close of the lower carboniferous period in in this portion of utah a great bed of limestone and sub fault and on to the east range of mountains and westerly to gold mountain this fissure may properly be called the deer creek fault beginning at a point some two miles northeasterly from the B W H mine and intersecting the sevier fault Is a fissure extended southwesterly south westerly to a junction with the deer creek fault A glance at the accompanying map will show the location and relation of those principal fissures these almost bottomless fractures became channels for the upward flow of arup all sw I 1 III r aa 1 A ovi 01 11 1 I e e f J n I 1 ANN J y w JS asp 11 if A vav 01 N N w miner k uw lt PIN avil HV il 4 C rv RI 1 Z 41 d lei in sacs f 3 e cr 1 K I 1 A en ile xai e t ca lp e e deer Y ja ut tile I 1 i ux antle D t lual bulat 19 ti y T j MT c a r arr H W OW binl 7 11 4 e i nl W ro acts 41 0 k 5 e li i P 7 y r wey I 1 veins baulf lines L u artz lt e amie irk 2 V Bf tW bed of sandstone formed the floor of the ocean A slight upward movement raised the limestone capping above the surface of the water which position it occupied until near the close of the tertiary age at that time in harmony with a worldwide world wide crust movement in the vicinity of the B W H the sandstone and lime were fissured down to the earths interior A great northerly and southerly fissure called the sevier fault extended many miles from the BW H section to the south of that locality about ono one and a half miles another alss fissure extended easterly across the sevier tive matter which formed mountain masses hundreds in some places thousands of feet in thickness and completely buried the lime and sandstone the latter because of the enormous weight of the superincumbent mass of igneous rock the intense heat and action of hot solutions was altered and now appears as quartzite in the vicinity of marysvale Marys vale when the hot eruptive mud had sufficiently solidified the B W H fissure was reopened from below the quartzite up to the surface where it now appears 1 in n a narrow irregular crack in the birdseye porphyry A number of parallel fissures were also formed several of them but bui 30 to feet apart and showing strong symptoms of converging at greater depth the circulation of hot solutions operating through a long period of time deposited the silica and metals the part that man has played A few words regarding the man who found and has made the B W ii prior to the year 1890 james at M billings lys occupation was that of cowboy I 1 and farmer during the autumn of 1900 he went into gold mountain on a deer dee r hunt and found fauna the bluebird mine recently sold to the annie laurie mining company on the bluebird and several adjoining claims the golden star mining company was organized and from which eh mr billingsly obtained a tunnel contract once each week during tile the succeeding winter the contractor with a pack of about 40 pounds consisting of powder grub etc floundered through snow banks a distance of two or three miles cifes between the end of the horse trail and the mine in order that development work might go on because of his inexperience in the ways th that a t are dark and tricks that are vain in mining mr Billing stake from the bluebird failed to put him on easy street he returned to his ranch at joseph but it is rare that a man after having taken the fever is satisfied with the monotony of farming early in the summer of 1900 J af billingsly james H wells and B W hopkins B W H formed a partnership co for prospecting and the first named went up the sevier river and camped in the canyon i in one of the westside west side gulches rich fl oat float was found and on july llan tile the first location was wag made close prospecting opened up a small seani seam of ore which a bove above the tunnel merged into a barren crack in birdseye porphyry from li a streak from two to six inches wide a car of ore running close to per ton toh was extracted the ore pinched down to a dry crack and then sue succeeded ceedee three months of disheartening drill pounding it required ninety days for three medao men to run ninety feet in rock almost as hard as a iron but ore again made its appearance and furnished the sinews of war for further d development tunnel no 2 was then started further down the hill and from which sufficient sud elent ore was taken to drive tunnel noi no 3 nearly vertical feet below into the hill a i di distance siance of feet tunnel no 3 was barted farted on the vein but at a distance of some 75 feet the vein was paralleled subsequent developments proved that the northeast portion of the vein had been thrown about thirty feet to the northwest nothing daunted superintendent in billingsly pushed on to feet t then h en turned diagonally to the left and at forty two feet caught the vein vel n and a fine chimney of ore fully forty four inches wide eighteen inches of which could be sacked and shipped at a handsome profit from a dead crack on the surface the fissure had widened to nearly four feet from being a frozen vein in tunnel no 1 the foot wall cleave age in no 3 is perfect an upraise of eighty five feet in ore was made and now a from no 3 is down 75 feet in a vein of ore that has yielded more than forty tons of shipping ore and fully a hundred tons of fine milling ore and not a pound has been taken out that was not necessary in sinking the the first carlot car lot from the averaged about 43 per ton the second carlot car lot ran upward of 62 while the last eighty sacks averaged per ton A remarkable and gratifying feature of the vein is a rapid increase in the lead contents from a small quantity of lead in no 3 it has increased to 12 per cent in the bottom of the and with it nearly a foot of lime spar 7 4 1144 view of the B W 6 S H it is a widely recognized fact that the bulk of the worlds lead has come from lower carboniferous limestone and there are good grounds for the belief that as B W H development reaches downward towards the limestone there will be a corresponding increase in lead A vein paralleling the one on which no 3 was run has been opened by a crosscut and four feet of 15 ore uncovered another the jim crow vein to the northwest is twelve feet wide with average surface values of 4 the J M vein in the extreme northwest portion of the group is a monster and on which a thirty foot shaft is down in ore averaging 10 per ton on the gold king is a vein that crops along it i distance of fully 1500 feet it is about nine feet wide with a band which averages 12 per ton lack of space precludes any further description other than to state that more than 1300 feet of work has been done about 1500 have been expended for tools roads and buildings and not a cent levied on the shareholders the product of the tahe little battle mine has paid for everything and there is money in the bank evidences of permanency at a number of places on the B W ac H ground there are found small rounded and smoothed boulders of quartzite embedded in the birdseye porphyry which proves beyond controversy that the B W H veins are directly within a belt which in its downward course penetrates the quartzite the presence and increase of lime spar as the in no 3 goes downward proves beyond question that at least a portion of the solutions traversed the fissure from the limestone upward and in addition to the atoms of gold and silver carried to the upper portion of the channel the lead found in the the depth at which those underlying beds of quartzite and lime exist will probably never be known A gasoline hoist will soon be installed over the from no 3 and a hole sent down to water level in conclusion it is almost unnecessary to state that all the evidences clearly prove that the B W H has passed the doubtful stage stag e and will soon enter the list as a regular producer and dividend payer J F GIBBS |