Arizona republican., 1908-08-31
OUR WESTERN EMPIRE.
FifZ-MaC Calls "The Parker Country" q Great Mineral Empire and Invites All the World to Keep an
 Eye On BOuSe.

one of those reformed shift bosses possesses so strong a ninstinct in mining matters, and has had that instinct enlightened by so wide an Experience that his judgment is in valuable-abOut a thousand times more valuable than that of a con ceited young squirt just from the best schools, who knows all that's in the books but has had his sterile book knowledge fertilized by too little experience in the field. Judg- ment is the thing needed and if Judgment is enlightened by book learning so much the better, but without acknowledgement gained by hard and wide experience in the mud. It is small help to the an- xious, weary hearted prospector who has denied himself the comfort of the bottle to pay for an expert report, to have a gifted squirt from the schools hand him out a discourse on the cred in his ground and the alIophanic and allomorphic condition of the minerals.
 What the poor devil wants is some thing in United States language that he can understand and that will en- courage him to work or help him to sell.
 A WORLD OF IRON. There is q world of iron out in that BOuse country. It is mostly black hematite, but there is a good deal of the red, too. Most all the rocks are masked by a surface var nish of one or the other kind. so that all look alike till you break them and get a fresh surface.
 Now, that iron varnsh is a very different thing-of radically differ ent significance to the anxious prOspector-from an iron-stain de- veloped on the surface of a rock by the oxidation of iron pyrite within the substance of the rock itself. Oh, yes; you bet your sweet life it is-teetOtally different
 The iron stain means nothing. or next to nothing to the prospector. while the iron varnish means that the iron was brought up in solu- tion from the hot depths and de- posted on the rocks from outpour- ing hot waters that flwed oyer their surface.
 But in the mines in Bouse camp proper, the iron occurs. also mas sive within the rocks-especiall within the limestones-in solid bould- CTS and stringers and all sorts of contorted shapes. just as copper ores are often found, especially the na- tive copper ores of Michigan This has resulted from what minerolOgists call ''metasomatic interchange, which in United States language means solution and replacement atom by atom"
 It is rank cruelty to heave chunks of Greek like "metasomatic" at an anXious-hearted prospector who wants to understand but may be for ty miles from a dictionary.
 A GOOD SIGN.
 I cannot too strongly impress upon the sturdy pilgrims of the pick and drill who are developing that splendid mineral empire out there in the Bouse country the exceeding ly hopeful significance of the way in which the iron occurs in their property. Everywhere it is accom- panied by large or small develop ments of copper carbonates, and when we reflect that copper in all of it's ores teaches more readily than other minerals. and that in some of it's ores it teaches almost as readily as rock salt will dissolve, we are, by the light of field experience and the logic of chemistry amply entitled to draw the conclusion that when the zone of secondary enrichment is reached the wealth of coppe ren- countered in Bouse camp will reveal it to be one of the richest in Ari- region on earth and the largest pro ducer of the metal.
 AN EASY CAMP.
 It's the easiest camp to operate in all Arizona-yes, I believe l may say, it's the easiest camp to operate