Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
BUTTE YET INFANT SHOWS
 GLASS
Great Activity HuStles Around The Clara
 Consolidated

days has been greater than for some time past The Little Butte mine is
 always the favorite, principally be- cause it is the closest property to the town and is generally talked of more than the others, with the possible ex ception of the Clara Consolidated, but the Clara is a big property and is now run on a big scale, whi.e the Little Butte is yet what might be called in its infancy. Regardless of the infan- ey part of it, however, the only thing there is is that the Little Butte is now a healthy child and growing like a week every day. The past few days have seen a remarkable growth be- cause the actual work of mining has begun. While fifteen ears of ore have actually been shipped from this prop erty vet the work was done more in the line of prospecting than in the line of mining. Now all of this has been changed and the real work of mining has begun.
 Machinery, men and timbers are be- ing rushed to the property and every | thing. is moving with alaerity and all work has assumed a business-like air which gives enthusiasm to all concern ed and particularly to others in tine district who have mining property to be developed. Nothing succeeds like success and the Little Butte is having the success.
 Since the Little Butte was bonded a month ago by J. F. Meyer < O., of
 Los Angeles, who also bought out right seven other claims adjoining, things have looked better for mining in the Plomosa Range. These gentle men, however, did not stop when they bonded the property but they took it with the intention of getting busy and they have done what they started out to do. Within the short space of one month Meyer X Co. have organized the Arizona -Bouse Copper Company, eapi- talized at s2,OOO,OOO, and have sold 100000 shares of the stock without so- licitation. The capital is represented by. 2,O0OOOO shares at $1 par valua- ton. One million of these shares is treasury stock and is now being of fered for sale.
 When J. E. Meyer and Geo. Bishop were in Rouse a month ago at the time when they took over the property they promised to begin active work very soon. However, they never stop ped work but have kept a small force of men at work all of the time.
 The first part of this week MT. Mey- CT came to Bouse and since that time everything has been rushing. On his
 road to Bouse from Los Angeles he
 ordered ten-horse power hoist and
 other necessary equipment which he
 immediately mad shipped to Bouse This has now arrived and has been lplaeed on the ground. In addition tC this he has taken out to the property enough lumber to build a superinten !, dents house. bunk house large
 enough for twenty-five men, board ing house and an engine house. Fifty
 foot head frames have been placed al the mine and a large force of mer
 put to work botn underground and or
 top of the ground. The shaft will b' g sunk to the 300-foot level right away
 and drifts will be run in both diree
 tions at the 10O-foot, 2OO-foot, anC
 SOO-foot levels.
 :, There are about one thousand tom
 of shipping ore now on the dump an'
 this will be shipped to Fl Paso a
 once and it is expected that enougl
 ore will be taken out right along t'
 continue shipping and it is though 3 that by the time the three hundred foot level is reached that the ship
 ments will mount to a ear per day.
 At this rate the product of the min,
 will more than pay for all operation In fact. 1t IS the intention or tHe cum pany not to sell any more stock when
 ever the production will pay for thu
 development. The Little Butte prop -- erty is practically a grass roots prop e osition and in this respect it is vastl, t different from bost copper properties !. although as a matter of fact this min l. is not strictly copper proposition t because 1t runs very high in gold. O e all the ore shipped from this propert, Il it has all average over 5000 in gold .Of the fifteen ears of ore already ship e ped the average valuation of the meta l. in the ore has been s45 pr ton. Thu .r it is easily understood why the proE IT erty can be made to practically pa, 1. for it's own development.