Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-06
LITTLE BUTTE
IGNORES HEAT.
PUSHES DEVELOPMENT WORK
WITH SUCCESS
MAKES REGULAR SHIPMENTS TO
SHELTER
Strong Indications on 2oo-Foot Level
Lead to Belief That suphde Zone
Will Soon Be Reached.
Water in Shaft

Work has been continued vigorously
at the Little Butte property at Bouse,
Ariz., notwithstanding the heat of Ari-
zona summer. During September it is
expected that fifty men will be at work,
and the management says the force will
be still further increased during the
fall as fast as the opening up of the
. property will permit.
Within the past month a new forty
horse power Western hoist has been
installed on the property, having been
bought in Los Angeles. and an electric
lighting plant and ice making machin-
cry will soon be in operation. The main
shaft is now down nearly 300 feet, sta
tons have been cut at all levels, and
several hundred feet of drifting and
cross-cutting accomplished.
This development work has opened
up some remarkably fine ground, an
unusually strong ledge of large extent
having been encountered, carrying an
average of 10 per cent copper and SO to
$40 q ton in gold, as shown by the
smelter returns from cars already
shipped. These values give a return a
car, after paying freight and smelter
charges, of from $500 to $500.
Regular shipments of this copper gold
ore are being made to the Ell Paso
smelter, about one car a. week being
shipped, and during the fall when the
force Is increased as expected, the out
put will undoubtedly be from one to-
three cars daily.
SmeIter Close at Hand
The officials of the company say these
shipments are not to be a permanent
feature of the property, as it is the
intention to have smelter facilities close
at hand, as soon as the proper arrange
ments can be made. Even at the pres
ent time shipping can be advantage
ously carried on, owing to the fact that
the main shaft is only 1000 feet from
the railroad the new Parker cutoff,
and 1t Is matter of very short time
before a spur will be built from the
railroad to the mine so that ore may
be dumped direct from the mine into
the cars.
Strong indications of sulphides have
been encountered on the 200-foot level
and in the other. lower workings, and
as water has already been encountered
in the shaft there is every prospect that
the sulphide zone will soon be reached.
A discovery has been recently made
which has added vastly to the value
of the property. This is the opening
of an immense ledge on another part
of the property nearly 200 feet wide,
which throughout it's entire width car
ries low grade gold values of from Sc
to 81 ton. This ore is entirely free
milling, and the intention of the COM
pany is to install as soon as possible a
stamp mill and concentrating plant on
the property to work these gold values.
This is an immense find, as there are
hundreds of thousands Of tons of this
gold ore, which will require years to
exhaust and the ore will pay a net
profit of from 81 to IS ton.
Acquired Last January
This property was taken over in Jan
uary of this year by J. e. Meyer and
George w. Bishop of Los Angeles, who
organized a company for its operation,
and so Unexpectedly rich did the prop
erty show itself to be that In June they
were successful in interesting syndi-
cate of well known men of Phoenix,
Ariz., to invest a large sum of money
In the company and place the company
in a position that it need never be at
a disadvantage owing to lack Of funds,
as these men are furnishing all money
necessary for the development of the
property.
Since the opening of the Little Butte
a number of large operators have be-
come interested in this district, notably
the Lewissohns, who have acquired the
Planet group; the Shannon Copper COM
pany, which has secured an interest in
the Blue Slate group: the Scott Mines
company, which, is now operating the
Hearts Desire group, AS a result of
new blood coming into this section the
town of Bouse, which is the natural
center of the district, looks for period
OF unwonted activity this fall.