Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-05
LITTLE BUTTE
PLANS FUTURE
SINCE SALE WORK GOES FOR
WARD RAPIDLY
CONCENTRATING PLANT WILL BE
BUILT AT ONCE
New Company Ships Average of Two
Cars of Ore a Week-SeVeral
New Shafts Are Out
lined

Ihe BouSe mining district of Yuma
county, Ariz., has again come to the
front through the sale of the control
of the Little Butte mine, owned by the
Arizona Bouse Copper company. The
mine has been transferred to the Little
Butte Consolidated Mines company,
with a capital of $3,OOO,OOO in 100000
shares of 81 each, of which 100000 are
in the treasury.
The officers of the new company are
John w. Sharpe, Phoenix, president;
David Shear, Warren, Pa, vice presi-
dent; Homer B. King, Phoenix, secre-
tary and treasurer with G. NJ. Hahn,
Valley bank, Phoenix; c. B. King,
capitalist, Phoenix; r. P. Davie, South
western Sugar and Land company,
Phoenix, and ]. f. Meyer, Los Angeles,
Cal, also directors.
stockholders in the old company will
receive share for share in the Little
Butte Consolidated Mines company, the
additional capital of which is to be
used to purchase other claims and
strengthen the treasury.
Three Thousand Feet in Length
The new company now owns the Lit
tie Butte and New Years claims ad-
Joining, giving it a continuous length
of 5000 feet on the Little Butte ore
body, and the Side Track claim and
Manipulation group of fifteen claims,
and of an interest in the Otis group
of twenty claims
The development of the Little Butte
mine was started last January by
the sinking of an incline shaft then
thirty feet deep, and now 210 feet deep,
with drifts in ore on that level and
IT, hf,1 PC
in a contact of lime and diorite, with
a heavy gossan Gaping from 100 to 300
feet in width. On the 110-foOt level
the ore has been croSScut for fifteen
feet and shows from three to five feet
of shipping ore with nearly eighteen
inches of gray copper. On the 2lO-
foot level the shipping ore is over
three feet wide.
Since the Arizona Bouse Copper COM
pany secured the property it has
shipped six carloads of ore to the FL
Paso smelter, ranging in value from
to 1872 per cent copper, with an
average of 50 in gold to the ton, and,
owing to the excess of iron in the ore,
the cost of treatment averaged only S4
Ships Five Carloads
Prior to this the locators of the prop
erty had also shipped five cars of sort
ed ore to the same smelter, which yield
ed average returns of nearly 5O per
cent more copper contents, with slight
ly increased gold values. On the Mani
pulator group the ore occurs in sim
liar contact, the gossan being over 200
feet wide and a shaft has been sunk
on this to a depth of 0 feet, where
water was encountered: but the sui
phide zone has not been penetrated.
The directors of the Little Butte Con-
solidated Mines company, who pur-
chased the control of the old company,
have placed $4,000 in the treasury and
under the management of the president
and the superintendence of his son,
Percy Sharpe, are continuing work at
the mine with renewed vigor, opening
IN the ore body on the 40 and 210-foOt
levels and maintaining shipments to
the extent of about two carloads
week.
The inclined shaft will be equipped
with a sinking pump (as water has
been encountered), and continued to a
depth of $50 feet. 1t is also the inten-
ton of the directors to sink new
vertical APPROXIMATION main
working shaft to cut the ore at a depth
of 500 feet and to prospect the ore
body on the Manipulation claims with
a churn drill.
Employs Twenty Men
Over twenty men are now employed
at the mine. The favorable develop
ments at the Little Butte mine have
attracted considerable attention to the
Bouse section where in the immediate
vicinity of this property the Scott Mines
company of salt Lake, the Woods In
vestment company of Colorado, and
the Paycar company are all doing eX-
tensiVe development work.
Last week the Shannon Copper COM
pany secured a working bond and Op-
tion on the Blue state group and has
already put d force of men to work
Recently the camp was inspected by
julius Lewissohn of New York, accom-
panied by w. II, Weed, and an exam
ination made of properties now under
consideration by the New York opera
tors who are so heavily interesed in
the Raw Copper camp.
Bouse is undoubtedly a copper camp
Of great promise rendered additionally
attractive by its prevailing high gold
values, the fact that water is obtained
at a comparatively shallow depth ana
that the mines are only about one mile
from the Santa Fe railroad. The COM
pletion of this road from Parker to
Bagdad next fall will place the dis
trict within eight hours travel by rail
OF Los Angeles.
A concentrating plant will be in
stalled on the Little Butte property