Arizona republican., 1908-08-31

spent most of his time about BOuSe, but taking in the Bill Williams dis trict also. He expresses himself as amazed at the evidences of mineral wealth in all parts of the region, but especially around Rouse.
 Keep your eye on BOuse," he said. There's where thingsn be doing pretty soon-big things-the biggest kind of things. That's a truly great mineral country and Bouse is the natural center of the whole region-the Mecca of all that great north Yuma country desert empire of mountains and plains with it's incalculable wealth of iron. lead. copper, gold, silver and cinnabar.
 All the roads of the desert and all the trails of the mountains radiate from Bouse. All the surrounding .camps get their supplies from Bouse. All the mines that ship (only a few las yeD ship their ore from Bouse.
 "Of course Bouse isn't as big a camp as New York-not yet. It isn't even as big a camp as Los Angeles. but give it time. man; give it time. Already it's the biggest camp of it's size in Arizona and it has got more population and a larger trade than either New York or Los Angeles had at it's age You can't call that a discouraging record for a modest little mining camp in the far-off desert wilds that ain't putin on no metropolitan airs" as they as sert, but just plugging along, putting their trust in the pick and the drill and the good old family Bible that rests in sacred dignity on the rickety little Grand Rapids marble-top cen ter table
 Before I went out there an intel ligent mining man from Los An geles, who had been over the field looking for pick-ups, said to me: The strange point about BOuse is that she's got everything bunched'
 Got everything bunched?" I re- peated interrogatively
 Yes; she's got the water and she's got railroad and she's got the min es, and they are all punched right together"
 And so I found it-a rare com bination for a new mining center in a far-off desert country.
 So I say, keep your eye on
 
 Isoon and there will be a rush-can't help but be; it's bound to come, for it is the center of great mineral empire. The iron deposits alone would make that a great mineral country. There are mountains of it along the Bill Williams fork and other great deposits of it in the Plumosa range, I understand, though didn't go out to see them. It is all a specular hematite of purest ray serene-no phosphorous. no ti- tanium, no sulphur, just the pure squi-ovide .Fe2 OS), running close to 70 per cent metallic iron.
 Of course. iron isn't an ore that the ordinary prOspector should mon key with. It is a slow asset. No body should touch it who isn't strong enough to get the land pat ented and hold it till the market demands the ore. Then it's big medicine
 But as an indication of the prob able presence of other Ores-gold silver, copper, lead. etc, the oxide of iron is often a valuable guide to the prospector. Its presence indi- cates former conditions favorable to the deposit of other metals. As rule the intelligent prospectOr knows this. but as a rule also he thinks its value as a guide is limited to the re dOxide, and he scans a new field with his eagle glance always alert for 'blowouts of red iron and swoops down upon them as an eagle on its prey and everlastingly plasters fpl la to dream himself a John D. or a J. Peirpont
 As a rule however. the honest eagle-eyed prOspector is not aware that the red iron, the yellow earthly iron and the black iron this particu- lar black iron called "specular'D are' all the same thing-the same in their origin, the same in their general chemical composition and precisely the same in their value as a guide to what he is searching for. They are all hematite (bloOdlike) and the earthly yellow iron will turn red if he heats it in the fire, and the spec ular or black iron will show red streak if he scratches 1t with the point of his knife. The chemical formula of all is the same, CFe2 O3).
 "The inpol tant thing for the pros pcctor to realize is that their sig nificance to his search is precisely the same, for they are all derived from the yellow sulphide of iron (pyrite) dissolved in hot water or superheatod steam. and thus brought 10 the surface, divorced from sul- phur and welded to oxygen.
 That's the reason this ses.tui- oxide of iron .hlaek or r-i 1r ycl!Gn hclnatitc) i- likely indication If tho ptcsrnce Of other an] more p-e- cious nirS in CT near b. he 'mow outs'-the other minerals are dis solved in the 9ame sa'u':'r with the iron and flOated to the surface with it, but they crystalize out of |. the solution at different stages of cooling and of pressure. This which is vastly important for the eagle-eyed prospector to understand. but which few or none of them do) is called 'differential specialization or progressive generalization.
 Without the aid of a pile-driver it is next to impossible to get it into the head of an honest Amercan that the mneral he is searching for Qet us say copper) is not the only mineral that came up