Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1909-03-10
SIX FULL CLAIMS
ARE SOLD At
BOUSE
Many Owners Pay Visits
To Examine Their
Properties

most important mining deals yet made
in Bouse and the Colorado country
mining district was eonsumated here
today when the Hearts Desire mine,
owned by the Phoebe Arizona Copper
& Gold Mining Company, was sold out
right to the Scott Mines Company of
Salt Lake City. That is to say, about
seventy-fve per cent of the stock was
taken over by the Scott Mines Com
paEy. This deal means very much for
Bouse and the district because the
purchasers will start in at once to de-
velop the property and will make one
OF the worlds great mines of it..
There is absolutely no doubt as re-
CARDS the richness of this property
and also there is no doubt but that
the new owners have the capital to do
it with.
The Hearts Desire mine is located
about five miles from Bouse over a
fine road and about mile and a half
south and east of the Little Butte
m;Ee, which property has received
much publicity of late on account of
the extensive development now going
on. The Heart s Desire consists of six
full claims located in a group and all
contiguous. This property forms the
apex where all of the principal ore
veins or zones converge. If there is
any good property in this country it is
certainly to be found on this group of
claims. So far but little work has
been done. mainly on account of the
fact that the stock was held by many
stockholders and they could not agree
en- what kind of work should be done
and when it should be done, cOnse-
quently development has been at at a
standstill. There are several small
openings and one shaft has been sunk
fifty feet. All of the openings have
exposed high grade gold-eopper ore.
The ore is of the same grade as that
found in the Little Butte, which ore
zone runs clear through the Hearts
Desire. Also the quartz assure whieh
runs through the Old Maid property
cuts straight through the Hearts De
sire.
The principal vein or zone on the
Hearts Desire is three hundred feet
wide and lays on contact of ande-
site and schist, the andesite being the
footwall or basement rock. Both the
anedsite and schist are mineralized so
that the extent of the pay ore is very
large. The rich values of the zone are
found in lime deposits. This property
has been examined and reported on
by many prominent mining men and
all have pronounced the surface indi-
cations to be the best ever seen.
Alexander W. Scott, president of
the Scott Mines Co., of Salt Lake City,
T. A. Snider of Cincinnati. also
stakeholder of the Scott Mines Co.,
and $. T. Godbe. of Los Angeles, Wis
tied the property today to look it ov-
err, it being tine first time Scott and !
Snider had seen it. and they were all |
very well pleased with it and stated |
that work would be commenced at /
once. \. W. Scott has reputation for |
quick development work and in speak
ing regarding this property made the
following statement:
81 have Just been out to see the !
Heart S Desire and ! will state that I
was very much surprised to see such a
fine property. l have travelled all over
the world and have seen all the larger
mines of the world and the showing
we have on the Heart IS Desire is the
best have even seen. I have heard
a great deal regarding this country
but it is far better than I had sup
posed.
eyes, we will go to work on it at
once. am going straight back to Salt
Lake and will be in Bouse again in
ten days with one or two engineers ana
a hoist and other machinery and we
will begin operations at once. This is
too big a proposition to allow it to lay l
dlc for a minute and when we do
1nce begin work we will push it just as
fast as possible. We will sink a shaft
10 the sulphide ore body and then
.rosscut and drift and get ready to
ship. We hope by that time there will
DC big customs smelter built here at i
Bouse so we can have the ore treated ,
mere. think there will be a smelter
built here very soon.'' I
This company is one of the strongest (
operation companies in the United
States and they own some of the big
of Utah and Nevada. They
low own and control the Rawhide {