Arizona republican., 1909-04-02
SIXTEEN FEET OF II
 IN LITTLE BUTTE
THAT WAS THE NEWS THAT
 CAME LAST NIGHT.
An Estimate of the Bouse Copper Property by ]. B. Grand, Mining Engineer.

J. B. Girand of Prescott, last evening gave reporter for The Republican his opinion as a mining engineer. of the Little Butte mine at Bouse, not as a professional report hired for the pur- pose. but as his private judgment ar rived at after four disinterested vis- its to the property while he was pass ing through on other business. He said he had been engaged in mining in western Arizona for the past five years and is now the president of the Big Stick Gold Mining company on the Santa Maria and also spent two and a half years in the placers beyond Bouse. He is as familiar with that section as almost anybody and has examined a great many mines there but was never attracted to that exact locality until after the exploitation of the Little Butte began.
 MT Girand was on the train as was President Meyers of the Little Butte or Arizona Bouse company, when the bonanza strike was made at the Ari- zona Northern and they became ac- quainted in talking about it. MT. Girand volunteered to look the Little Butte over, without compensation, and pass his judgment on it. He did so and only stayed on the ground an hour but saw enough to impel him to go back inside of three days and spend half day on the property. Twice since then he has been to see how things were progressing and the last time he stayed three days taking with him a number of the most prominent capitalists in the copper world. Mir. Grand says he has not often sought to break into print but he honestly be- lieves this is the biggest copper pros pect he has ever seen and the best one because it is a grass roots proposition and he has seen most of the big ones in Arizona, California and Mexico The ore has uniformly carried about $7 in gold and F per cent in copper during the development to date. He believes that western Arizona is on the eve of developing one of the biggest mining fields the world ever saw. and he be- lieves fis friends should know about it both for their own interest and for the good of Arizona, and moreover he believes that when those who know him read what he says they will believe it. or will at laest believe that he is speaking from his own convictions. and in so speaking he tries at all times to be conservative.
 He says the vein on the surface at the Little Butte is very wide and is well defined for fully 900 feet. On the forty foot level. $50 feet by the incline shaf) it has been drifted along for fifty feet, all in ore, no crosscut hay ing been run to show it's width. With the new strike of glance at the 100 foot level, Q15 by the incline shafp. in which an ore body nine or ten feet wide. according to the latest informa tion at the time of the interview. had been penetrated though not cut through. he believes the existence of at least 10000 tons of good ore has been practically demonstrated and that this ore should carry values az gregating s25O,0OO in gold and copper judging by the returns made from the ore that has been shipped and what he has seen of the quality of that now on the dumps and being taken out. He says he has not sampled the ore him self but there is plenty of evidence of its richness on which to base his cal culations.
 On another of the companys claims near by there is ashaft down 225 feet that passes through a soft limonite gossan which. taking into considera- tion that it carries small copper and gold values itself, indicates that there are immense sulphide bodies below. even though the values of the upper deposit are very largely leached out Except in the Warren district Mir Girand said he knew of no place where there were such large bodies of leached gossan on the surface, as on the Little Butte ground.
 Concerning the recent strike he said it was made since he left the mine but he has seen the ore and it's values are unmistakable. The glance ore of course is pockety. coming in punches all through tn evein, and it will in all turn to a solid sulphide formation at greater depth. The com pany has only been actively operating since about January 20 and a great deal has been accomplished in that length of time. The recent discovery of the big ore body MT. Girand believes means as much for the permanent de- velopment of that section as does the big gold strike, which all agree is quite He thinks that the success ful operation of the Little Butte. which now seems assured, will make that mineral section eventually one of the dominant factors in the copper product of the country.
 In connection with the above expres- sion by Mir. Girand it is most timely to print two telegrams received here by MT Meyer from J. c Denton, the mine superintendent. One came in the morning as follows:
 Rouse, April 1-iIIave the crosscut In twelve feet, still in solid ore Every thing. coming out pans a lot of free gold Have sent samples by express"
 The other message came about 9 o'clock last night and was as follows:
 Rouse, April Have crosscut six teen feet of the vein. Looking better every round of shots Tanning more gold as we get further into the vein. People are excited here"
 It needs only to be added that Mir. Meyer became quite excited at this end Df the line and will leave for the mine again this morning, without waiting even to get samples coming by exprass