Arizona republican., 1909-03-15
Story of the Big Strike South
 Of BOuse
RHY0uTE AND PH0NOL|TE
Marvellous Gold Values In a Formation Identical In Character to That of the Big Rawhide Mines.

C. B. Holman was prevailed upon ! yesterday to tell of his gold strike in the Rouse country, casually mentioned in yesterdays paper. Mir. Eolman is the man who made the first pig gold strike in Rawhide, that started one of
 the most phenomenal camps in these
 later days. He made considerable of
 a fortune in disposing of his property
 and lost a good part of it later through
 illness. Hearing of the mining devel-
 opment in western Arizona, he came
 down to look over the field, going to
 Rouse a couple of weeks ago as an
 initial point for his explorations. He
 inspected the Little Butte and other
 properties near Rouse. then set out to get something on his own account. He
 thinks he has got it. He says he has discovered a gold and silver deposit identical in formation and general fea- lures, as well as the character of the ore, with that of the Rawhide discov- cry, only he believes this to be a larger and better ore vein and in a country much better for exploitation and oper- ation.
 The ore, he says, is rhyolite and phonolite, the same as in Rawhide, but is a formation not quickly recog- nized by the prospectOrs of this cOun- try. few of whom are acquainted with ore of that kind. It is deceptive to the prospectOr for the reason that the ore is light colored, most of it of a chalky appearance, is siliciOus and will not pan. so no values are apparent un- less one finds the stringers of wire gold or nuggets, except by a fire as- say. and to that he attributes the fact that this lead has been so long over looked by good prospec:ors working in the immediate vicinity. The find he does not care to locate with exact ness until after he gets back to the ground again, finishes his location work and completes the negotiations now pending for the ownership of some nearby partially developed silver and lead property. In a general way. how ever he says it is ten or twelve miles southerly from Rouse, some distance from the Quartzsite road. and about eighteen miles from the Little Butte mine. and in an entirely different for nation. one that does not even resem- ble that now quite famous property.
 Mir Holman was directed to the property he is now negotiating for and found it with a shaft something over a hundred feet deep. though not being operated just now. There are three carloads of ore. approximately, on the dump, running high in lead and silver, the shaft being sunk on a ledge that is probably three feet wide He is in formed that shipments were made to a good profit from this shaft in the early days and some shipments have been made recently that returned high values. Some of it has gone as high as 62 per cent lead and $16 in gold. with good silver values accompanying. This particular lead is not visible on the sur face, though it runs through two or three claims. He believes it to be good property, however. and desires to get it as it adjoins what he believes to be his big rhyolite strike.
 The formation of that general sec ton is malpai. on one side. with iron and copper on the other. Between them is an immense dike of Dorphyry, in which is found the rhyolite and phen- olite ores After satisfying himself concerning the silver-lead mine on the apparently short lead, MT. Holman be- gan prospecting the adjacent country. and, practically parallel and about thousand feet distant, he found the rhyolite lead, the formation being what the local prospectors had considered mefely country rock. Thus far, all that he knows of the strike is the gen eral formation and the result of such samples as he could secure from the surface crOppings, as he has done no development work. He has few sam ples showing the specks and strings of free gold. but for the most part it is common white rock, that, to an or dinary man. might look like it was about half lime and the rest any old thing. However, he says it is very familiar stuff to him, as it is identical in character with the rock on Mascot hill, Rawhide. where he made his first big strike, and which hill was later named Grutt hill. after the Grutt broth CTS became interested in the property and exploited it. The ore, he says, is a white crystallized quartz. As men tioned, few of the samples brought to Phoenix show the free gold though some of them do, but MT. Holman says he is certain the gold values are great and the silver values probably good. There is no copper in it at all.
 NJ. Brown, the Bouse assaye-, was with him at the time. He is also a former resident of Rawhide and Gold field. and familiar with the formation and was greatly excited when the find was made. Mir. Holman has had four teen assays made on the samples he