Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-15
New Reaion for Exploration

more than eight or ten miles from the
Colorado or the Williams fork. The
great arid region east of the Colorado
was unpenetrated and is uncharted by
the government surveys, yet into 1t
the intrepid railway engineer pushed
and surveyed the new line, found wa
ter and made it possible for the pros
pector to make his excursions with
safety.
1t was following the railroad work
that the new district was discovered.
Thomas Bouse, an old prospector of
San Diego, made the first strike and
attracted attention to region that in
vited Mr.. Avery, Mr. Denton, Mr.. Otis,
William Lloyd and Ed Thomarson of
Phoebe. New, to make the trip. About
the first of this year they started west
along the new road from Wickenburg
and reached Bouse district soon after
its riches were manifest. There they
acquired large holdings of such anaz-
ing possibilities that they feel justified
in calling it the richest district In the
west.
att has no BOOM" said Mr.. Otis. ut
is a Goldheld without a boom. We
want no boom because the men at
work there are not DESTROYS of promot-
ing speculative things. They are seri-
Gus, conservative, enterprising men
who, as a rule, are amply supplied
with means and intend to develop the
properties as we'll calculated business
propositions. But I do not see how,
when the character of this great region
is made known, a rush can be avoided.
There is a great field for the pros
pector, a field rich in results, but ac-
companied with all the hardships and
sacrifices of desert prospecting"
The Bouse district comprises about
$50 claims all showing specifically
A-f@ &c
on the ore have come from the assayer.
The consistency of the naturalization
and it's thorough and generous distri
button are regarded by the Bouse pio-
neers as marvellous. And when the
Santa FEES new line is in operation 1t
will be only a little over a nights ride
from Los Angeles, the mining center Of
the great southwest.
One of the latest arrivals in the dis
trict and heavy investor is c. A.
Maxwell, one of the partners in the
famous Hercules mine of Idaho, which
pays a dividend of $4,000 a month.
What Has Been Found
On the Bullion claims shaft is down
seventy-fiVe feet and is in thirty-f1ve
feet of sulphide ore averaging 10 per
cent copper and from So to Sc in gold.
The claims belong, under bond, to
the Devlin-Arizona Copper company,
which has agreed to pay $250,000 for
the mine claims and has already paid
one-fifth of that amount in cash.
The Paradise group is owned by OF
tbs, Avery. MarkWell and others and
was purchased from Denton. Its shaft
is down sixty feet and is in sulphde
that shows clear across a value of -
per cent copper and $26 in gold The
Paradise is to put in at once a hosting
plant and will continue sinking to the
water level.
The Dutchman group. belonging to
Bouse and McMahan, is the original
strike. The shaft is sixty feet deep
and shows big iron gossan cropping
three hundred feet wide. There are
numerous superficial ore shoots show
ing high grade copper. The assays run
into the thousands.
The Little Butte another Bouse and
McMahan property, has iron gossan
on the surface $50 feet wide with a con-
tinubus ore shoot for five hundred feet
twelve to twenty-siX feet wide, which
averages u per cent in copper and $40
in gold. A shaft is being sunk and the
rich ore is being sacked and shipped to
Ell Paso for treatment
The Hearts Desire has been pur-
chased by company composed of
Lloyd of Phoebe, Godbee of Salt Lake
City, Weddell of England and Miller of
Boston. Like the others it shows a
gossan ledge 200 feet wide the entire
length of the claim with an ore shoot
three hundred feet long and from
twelve to fifteen feet wide. 1t has av-
eraged II per cent in copper and SIT
in gold. The purchasers have refused
100000 for their property and have de-
termined to go to work with diamond
drills at once.
The Frances group, lying between