Arizona republican., 1909-03-21
ROUSE HAS GOLD AS
 WELL AS COPPER
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 wrong lead all the time and were not working the lodges in which the gold is now found. The early pros- pectors were looking for copper and did succeed in finding some copper, but not in paying quantities. In fact none of the prospects have ever been a paying proposition simply because the prospectors did not understand
 the formations and did not look in the right Ilace for the gold.
 ProsPectors Fooled.
 One of the old timers in this dis trict is Charley Cowells of Bouse He has been the owner of the old Lead Camp mine for years. and yes tcrday he had q Nevada party out looking at the property. and as soon as the Nevada man saw the phonO- lite and dasite. he immediately knew what tO expect and began prospect ing in the dike much to the disgust of Cowells. but at the second stroke of the pick he knocked oft | chunk Of rock lousy with free gold- Bu: COwells had passed on and never got wise until after he had given an op- ton on his property. IL was simply a case of the prospector not knowing what he had. In addition to CoWells, there are many other miners in this district and none of them knew what they had. The could horn gold, as they call it, but they looked in the wrong place for the rock to horn.
 Nevada Had Same Experience.
 What has just happened or is about to happen at Bouse and in the Plo- mosa range at Gold mountain hap pened at Goldfield, Rhyolite, Raw hide and other Nevada towns, and also at Cripple Creek. The old pros pectors did not know what they had and never found the gold values All this was left to the newcomers who have found the bonanzas, and within the next few days there will be a rush of mining men to this district never before equaled in Arizona. The reason for this is the fact that rich gold mines have been discovered. and they show for themselves. The Colo rado country is now filled with min- ing men from all parts of the coun- try, and particularly from Nevada and Colorado, and they are looking and have been looking for gold mines These people are gold hunters. and not copper hunters. They have al ways had an idea that the Colorado country would some day turn out some of the richest gold mines of the world, and they have been trying to find out just where they would be, and now it seems to have fallen to the good fortune of Rouse to have the honor of the big bonanzas.
 Yuma County Greatest Ever.
 Yuma county, Arizona, has been heralded the world over as being the hottest county in the United States, but now she has the new honor of being the richest county in point of mines, and especially gold mines. The King of Arizona, North Star Harqua Hala. Yuma, and Quartzsite mines are but q few of the great and old time producers. In addition to this, there are the three great gold strikes of the spring of 1909, the strike in the Castle Dome mountains, about forty to sixty miles south of BOuse; the Ticksburg strike. fifteen miles | east of Bouse, and the last and the | greatest, the Gold mountain strike, l ten niles rom BOuSe. Anu yet the ! Bouse country is called a copper l and justly, too, because | Bouse has some of the future great | copper mines of the world. In one | more year, if the present activity | md development continues, Yuma | will have more and larger | mines within her boundaries than the | same amount of ground any other place on earth
 and Nevada Men Pleased. 1
 Several Colorado and Nevada men were in BOuse today when the new 'trike was reported, and when they were told that the formation was 1hOnolite and dasite, they hiked out 1t once, and when they returned, they III stated that were more than well pleased with what they saw. Some ,f them stated that the new Gold mountain contained all the virtues of Rhyolite, Rawhide and Cripple Creek combined and that the lew strike is dead sure to be win Ter. It is also understood that sev- ral Colorado and Nevada men have ecured considerable property in the iold mountain district and will bring