Weekly journal-miner., 1909-12-22
PROPERTIES ARE NOW BEING
 DEVELOPED
Much Work Under Way in That
 Section

ROUSE, Ariz., Dec. 17.-Last week the Little Butte mine, owned by the Little Butte Consolidated Mines Com pany, was visited by H. B. King, c. B. King, Geo. H. Hahn, Louis Sands, H. Lockett of Phoenix and G. Teas dale of Prescott, who were accom- panied by W. J. Stoneham. The prop erty, which has been extensively de- velOped, shows on the surface an iron capping from 15O to 200 feet wide, occurring in a contact of gran ite and lime, in which are intrusive dykes of andsite and diorite the gangue matter being a decomposed and altered andesite. On the surface were found three well defined shoots of high grade cOpper-gold ore, aver aging about 30 feet in length and from , to 8 feet in width, from which about 20 carloads of high grade ore have been shipped. On one of these shoots the present main working incline shaft was sunk to a depth of 100 feet, and about 800 feet of drifts and crosscuts run on this level, opening up other shoots of cop per ore, and also demonstrating a width of so feet of leached ore car rying an average of $5.3O a ton in gold. The shaft was continued to the 200 foot level, and crOsseuUting and drifting on that level proved up a width of 2s feet of ore, aver aging $9 a ton in gold, but the ore body on this level or the level above has never been crosseut from wall to wall and its full width never deter- mined. On the 300 foot level a cross cut has been run over 60 feet in ore, averaging from s to $9 a ton in gold, the face of the crosscut at the time of the visit being in much higher grade ore. With the excep- ton of the shoots of copper ore al- ready referred to, the whole of this work has been done in the leached zone, and the ore being of a dry, friable nature and easily and cheaply mined, can be proftably treated in stamp mill with the addition of a cyanide plant, and it is the intention of the management to erect a 20- stamp mill for the treatment of this ore and continue the sinking of the main shaft to the sulphide zone. There is considerable water in the mine from surface seepage and a No. 7I Cameron sinking pump has now been installed and the sinking of the main shaft to the 800 foot level has been resumed. There is now sufficient pay able gold ore blocked out in the mine to earn dividends for the con- pany and there is every reason to be- lieve that when the sulphide zone is reached the copper-gold values, combined with the immense width of the ore body, will make this a very valuable eOpper-gold mine.
 Adjoining this property, J. W. Sharpe and R. P. Sharpe are develop ing the Dutchman claim in which high grade gold ore has been diseov cred on the surface, as well as some high grade cOpper-gold ore shoots.
 At the property of the Bouse Gold and Silver Mining Company J. C.. Denton is sinking a shaft to the 200 foot level, from which point cross cuts will be run to the ore body opened mp on the surface.
 About seven miles from here, at what is known as the Lead Camp, a considerable amount of work has been done on a Assure vein which occurs in lime, cut almost at right angles by an andesite dyke fully 40 feet wide and carrying gold values. The fs- sure in the lime shows high grade lead and silver ore, from which sev- eral shipments have been made, and it is believed that at depth and at the point of junction of the vein with the andesite dyke high grade ore will be opened up.