| Show L LARGE RGE MINE MINERAL AL ALG G CAVE VE TAPPED IN UNCLE BIM MINE Frank Bennett of the development work at the Uncle Bim Dim Mine was in Cedar Tuesday and reports that the shaft shat which he is sinking sinking sinking sink- sink ing has broke into a B large cave and andi I that a lot of soft mineral has run into into in- in in-I in A 1 to the shaft from the cave showed it to tobe tive test of this mineral I be high In zinc with some lead This c ve c-ve condition Is typical of all lead lead- lead lead-I zill properties where here there is extensive exten- exten I exten-I i sive The lime is re replaced replaced replaced re- re placed by the lead and zinc minerals and the tte weight of the latter seems to cause the ground to settle and leave the caves The ore is always Mr found In the floor of the cave e Bennett hasn't as yet explored the I cave to determine its extent but says than a aI not less that that that-it It is probably I hundred feet across A similar cave I Iwas was was encountered in one of the old i iI I shafts sunk on the property a number I and a lot of ore was of years ears ago I taken out from the floor of the cave I and there is a great deal of It still ex exposed cx- cx I posed there I W W. H. H Smith is leaving lea Los Angeles for the mine today with a B party of Continued on Page Five t LARGE MINERAL CAVE TAPPED TAPI TAP TAP- PED FED IN UNCLE DIM BUI MINE I Continued from Page One people and R. R A. A Brown Brol C. C D. D Brown I and McCracken Smith with some Salt SaIt Lake parties will meet here tomorrow I They will make an Inspection o of i the property and then determine whether to sink the shaft before driftIng drifting drifting drift drift- ing to the ore or dl drift t from the two hundred foot level The condition at the present time indicates that they are getting close dose to the ore ote body It was thought that it would be better to sink to a depth of feet teet before drifting as this I would put them close to the ore and they would have to drift probably about about a- a bout 50 feet since Ince the ore is dipping toward the shaft Present conditions however indicate that they will cut I the main ore body sooner than they expected It is probable that the theore ore I body is considerably greater in extent at this depth than they had ed I |
