| Show Geologist Rep Report t rt of Uncle Onele Dim Bun Nine Mine Thirteen Claims Owned by Company With Four Leased Leased Company Company has no Debts or Obligations Property Well Timbered With Cedar Pine Mahogany Suitable for Mining Timber Plenty of Water for Domestic and Milling Purposes Splendid Purposes Splendid MID MIO Sight Near by Development Development Will WW go Hand in Hand With Agricultural Development of Escalante Desert Since our report of a visit to the well known blown Arrowhead Mining property that has been purchased by the Uncle Mining M. Company many demands from people In interested e ested In mining ng and the development of mines in Iron County have bave asked for a description of the property and findings of the geologist geologist gist pt 8 S. F. F Hunt of Salt Lake City one of the most prominent and successful geologists of the mountain inter-mountain West Following is his hIa report on the property property prop prop- erty after alter several weeks investigation on and study tudy My acquaintance with the Old Ar- Ar Arrowhead Ar Ar- Towhead or what is now known as the Uncle Bim Elm Mine began In September 1928 at which time the property was visited in company with Mr Ralph Myers All AU the underground workings then open to view were given a hurried Inspection Then on December 11 1929 at the request of Mr W W. W H H. Smith of Salt Lake City a more detailed examination exam exam- nation of surface features and geologIcal geological ical conditions was undertaken and a Brunton survey surrey of surface openings I was made all aU of which work covered a period of six days In this work I I I desire to express my appreciation and thanks to R. R A. A Brown Consulting Consulting Con Con- I I Engineer Frank Prank Bennett Supt In charge and to to toJ J. J A A. Strong detailed to assist for their helpful co Location of Property The group of 17 claims is situated In n nIron Iron County Utah in In the the Needle Range in Section 12 12 2 Township o p 32 S. S I. I Range 18 W W. Salt Lake B B. B and M. M This geographical position is about 23 miles nearly due west and 28 miles mUes by auto road from Lund on the Salt Lake I Los Js Angeles Railroad Prom From Lund a branch line of railroad runs Eastward 31 miles to Cedar City via the United States Steel Corporations Corporation's iron de deposits de de- posits 1 from which Iron County de derives derives derives de- de rives its name Topographically Telegraphically the property is 18 situated situated situ situ- at d one-half one mile Southeast of Arrowhead Arrowhead Arrowhead Arrow Arrow- head Peak in the upper drainage slope ot of of Arrowhead Gulch Arrowhead along along along a- a long a devious course drains drams Southeastward Southeastward Southeastward South South- eastward Into Escalante Valley 10 miles Southwest of Lund and hence 1 Is followed for most of its length by the road to the property Titles The Uncle Elm Bin Mining Company is 18 a non non assessable assessable Utah corporation of shares having a par value o of f 10 cents per share W. W H H. H Smith of Salt Lake City is 18 President and th the e Company's office is at 1107 Continental Continent Continent- I al Bank Building Out of the whole shares 40 per cent has baa bee been n Wd to C. C B. B Brown W W. H H. Smith e et t Si aI who have paid for pooled an anca and d ca carried rrie d on all aU the preliminary wor work k and expenses of org organization development develop develop- went ment ent and equipment to date The re re- re manning shares 60 per cent Is M all aU treasury stock set aside to carout carry carry car car- ry out a comprehensive program o of f i I mine developments The present holdings of the ComPany Corn Com Pany consist of a group of 17 fulls size full ze mining claims or about acres Ii in a all aU Tl j I Thirteen of these are owned out out- right by th the Company and four others namely the Uncle Bim Dim Numbers 1 2 3 and 4 are held under a year 5 lease and and bond bon contract from Mr Frank Prank penn Bennett tt of Lund owner There is 18 no no conflict of title nor litigation PendIng pend pending prod Pend- ing log no outstanding debts nor no obligations obliga Lions whatsoever beyond the Bennett lease and bond contract The company compan y no now holds holda a permit from the Utah Securities Securities Commission to market at par shares hares of treasury stock This information from Mr McCracken Smith th Topography Timber and anel Water The Needle Range is 18 a North trending trendIng trending trend trend- ing irregular mountainous belt borderIng border- border tog Ing the Northwest side aide of Escalante Valley and rising to altitudes of to feet above sea in its loftiest peaks peak Its length is about 60 and width 30 miles extending from Nada Southward to to Modena and Westward into eastern Nevada Nevada The main drainage drainage drainage drain drain- age channels channels' flow southeast Into the broad arid Escalante Valley Vaney which in turn drains northward into Bonne- Bonne Lake basin The extrusive Igneous rock formations forma forma- composing the southern hills hUIs have been deeply erod eroded d presenting rough and craggy outlines and tortuous tortuous tortuous tortu tortu- ous drainage channels but the north north- northern northern I ern portion is 18 more regular in form I and is 18 made up of thick limestone I shale and quartzite formations which have been warped and tilted into parallel parallel par par- I aUel ridges separated by high valleys The Uncle Bim Bun Mine is 18 located on one of these ridges on and along the shale parting between the limestone and I quartzite formations Above feet In elevation nearly the entire range is 18 covered with a good to rank stand of cedar pinon pine and mountain mahogany timber groves gro In Sawmill Canyon and other high sloping north-sloping areas sheltered from the dry summer heat are clumps and considerable patches of fir and white pine timber large enough for lumber and other mining purposes Over this mountainous belt the average average average aver aver- age rainfall Is s Under inder 10 ID inches per annum and while there are no large I streams flowing above ground from this large area of about 1200 square miles there are many I Ismall small and a few large perennial springs which rise here and there inthe Inthe in inthe the gulches and larger canyons A small spring sprin rises on the Uncle Bim Dim ground and supplies the camp with sufficient water for domestic use use About a mile mUe west of camp a larger spring can be brought in by gravity that should permit of milling operations opera opera- on the ground Down the main road to Lund four miles mOes below the mine Sawmill Canyon and Pipe Springs can be piped together at a convenient mill site in sufficient flow to supply a large luge milling plant throughout the year ear But much of the annual rainfall rainfall rain rain- fall tall Is carried by surface sub-surface flows into In Into into in- in to the soil burled littoral fan deposits of Escalante Valley thereto there thereto to o stock an artesian basin lying along the west side side from Lund south west to Beryl and perhaps to Modena The coarse eroded from the extrusive extrusive extra sive Igneous formations of Needle Range has been swept into the tiie western flank f Escalante Valley This gravel gravelis is highly siliceous and insoluble in waters therefore the water is pure potable and useful useful useful use use- ful for or Irrigation At present most of the valley land landIs Is arid acid and unused but Is capable of development In a larger way in the future for agricultural needs So the development of the adjacent metal metal- deposits such as the Uncle Bim Bins should go hand In hand with that of the Escalante artesian reservoir reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir and a community of Interests grow rip dp p. p History Early man was a hunter and miner before he came a farmer and city dweller In Genesis 11 2 we read The name of the first river is 18 Pis Pishon on that that Is It which the whole land of Havilah where there is gold and the gold of that land is good Then in Greek mythology is the stor story of Jasons Jason's quest of the Golden Fleece And the lost mines of King Solomon are still being sought These citations lead to only one opinion Like the use of fire tire and the love of adornment the impulse to mine min for the precious metals Is an element elemental elemental al urge which distinguishes the human from all other animals So there is an inborn fascination a charm to mining adventure ad that no other occupation can bestow The more complex and Interdependent interdependent interdependent inter inter- dependent the social order becomes the more dependent it is upon a wider and larger use of the metals John Marshalls Marshall's discovery of gold on Sutter Creek in California in 1848 stampeded the adventurous men of every land to the Golden West The same spirit of pioneering marked the discovery of th the old Arrowhead now the Uncle Dim Blur Mine Its location is 18 near the old Pioche Stage road The Arrowhead was discovered by freighters freight freight- ers who were prospecting while herding herd ing their work stock Stealing horses was a pastime for fo Arizona rustlers inthe Inthe in inthe the and a stage loaded with silver bullion buWon from the Raymond-Ely Raymond Mine at Pioche had Just been robbed of its treasure at Battlers Battler's Station three miles away and the driver shot None but milling free ores of gold and silver could be successfully treated treated treat treated treat treat- ed in the by plain amalgamation and the Washoe processes Ore containing containing containing con con- zinc and lead were ere called base and were taboo et at the crude reduction plants of the day Thus the early operations on the Arrowhead and many of the mines of Pioche were un- un Continued on Page Four GEOLOGIST REPORT OF UNCLE RIM DIM MINE l Continued From Page One profitable and most of them were abandoned for years yean In 1891 1697 when the Salt Batt Lake dt Los Angeles Railroad had reached Modena the Arrowhead was relocated by a Mr Jackson who worked and held the ground for 10 years He lIe sunk the Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son shaft In the f foot tw l. l Then later laur Blackner do Kesler relocated drove the Blackner Tunnel and organized the Coin Silver Mining Company This con concern ern by hl working on company ac account account ac- ac count and by leasing to the Calumet Leasing Company produced and had ship ped peeS from 25 to 30 carloads ot or tuna led ore ore to the Utah smelters These oper oper- operators aton received no pay for the zinc but were penalized instead a So it can be reasonably estimated that not more than one one-h one half of the actual value of the ore shipped was ever paid for Now however with ith differential flotation methods in use and modem modern grow de demand demand demand de- de mand these ores are held at a premIum premium prem prem- ium lum for their zinc and lead content Finally through dissension and careless careless careless care care- less neglect of the Coin Sliver Silver Compan Company Company Com Com- pany pan the property passed Into Mr Frank Bennetts Bennett's possession who in turn has transferred It to the Uncle Bim Mining Company Geology In the Great Basin region the sedimentary sedimentary sedimentary sedi sedi- foundations vary from to feet in thickness and are composed composed com corn posed of limestone shale and quartzite of Paleozoic age ancient nt life Ufe the limestone predominating Most of the Important ore deposits in Nevada Neada and Utah are found near Igneous Intrusions in these Paleozoic formations In and along the transverse uplifts Now the general trend of the Basin ranges in North and South whereas the strike strike of the transverse uplifts Is Sa Westerly I from the Wasatch Range Five of these major transverse uplifts traverse Utah and produce 9 95 93 per cent of the ore mined In the State The Uncle Dim Bim Mine Is situated on the Iron Springs traverse uplift midway between be between between be- be tween Pioche and the United States Steel Corporations great Iron deposits deposit southeast of Lund The nearest geological work ork done b by bythe bythe the United States Geological Survey is fa that in the Star Beaver Lake and athe Frisco districts about 40 to miles northeast northeast northeast north north- east and published in Bulletin No SO 30 by B. B S. S Butler Dutler According to Butler Dutler Grampian Mountain which rises to the west of the famous Horn Silver SilverMine SilverMine SilverMine Mine Is composed of Upper Cambrian limestone and above this formation separated by a thin band of shale Is Isa isa isa a thick k formation of ot Lower Ordovician These several formations have undergone profound regional metamorphism which has obliterated their fossil forms form In all the foothills these older sedimentary rocks are flanked by and burled beneath extensive extensive exten exten- sive save flows of rhyolite and andesite of Tertiary age These extrusive Igneous rocks occupy the area between the tho Uncle Dim and Iron Springs deposits They extend below the Pleistocene sediments sediments sedi- sedi ments flooring the Escalante Valley and reappear as the wall hanging formation of the Iron Springs ore de de- de- de posits So far as op opened ned up the chamber deposits of ore on the Uncle Dim Bim make in along and under the parting shale which separates the Cambrian wall foot-wall limestone from the hanging- hanging I wall Ordovician quartzite And locally locally local local- ly In the vicinity of the discovered ore bodies the parting shale is and hardened into black hornstone hornstone hornstone horn- horn stone or trap rock The general trend of the limestone quartzite and parting parting parting part part- ing shale is about North 30 SO deg West and all are involved In a network of Intersecting ore-bearing ore fractures and fissures which dip East at 50 deg to toCO 60 CO deg under the andesite That the dark altered shale or hornstone hornstone hornstone horn- horn stone is Sa a favorable host rock for ore is fa made evident in the Calumet and Main Shaft workings And in this re regard regard regard re- re gard resembles the important zinc- zinc lead deposits in the shale And Andas as to the enclosing formations strike strite and dip of vein and intimate relation relation relation rela rela- tion to the igneous rocks the deposit Is a B close counterpart to the Horn Silver Silver Sil Sil- ver Mine at Frisco does it differ dUfer widely widey from the huge iron deposits deposits deposits de de- de- de posits of Iron Springs All four oc occurrences occurrences occurrences oc- oc are intrusive contact fissure deposits Mineralogy On the lime ridge about feet northeast of the main shaft and again about feet still further northeast are two intrusive quartz vein dikes which strike north and cut across the limestone beddings and ridge These I highly vela vein vein dikes have have- havethe the I appearance of a normal I quartzite but on closer Inspection are II I seen to be eruptive in nature containing containing contain contain- ing many rugs and cavities studded with ith single terminated quartz crystals crystal Heretofore these dikes cikes have been mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken for quartzite so it would be advisable advisable ad ad- to have them assayed for gold and silver The ore In the main workings carries carries car car- cari i ries rles mainly In lead zinc and silver sliver But But little iron and no barite or other heavy substance Is associated with the ore to tomake tomake to tomake make milling matters difficult or Im Im- Im I possible The black lack hornstone gangue- gangue rock yock is medium in hardness but will willi present no metallurgic problems to overcome A few stains of appear in the oxidized ore but the amount amount a- a mount of copper is negligible Yet Yet In the horns hornstone tone or |
