Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-07
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 ID CRITICISM
 OF NEW CAMP
BouSe Man Answers Arm strong Claiming Properties Are UniuStIy Condemned Late Expert Quoted.

ROUSE. Feb. 6In an interview in last SuudaSs Review. W E. Aru,- strong. "one cf the leading mining men and brokers of Globe" said: There Las been a tremendous amount of talk about a little shack and tzia town called Bouse, which is likely To work a great deal of hardshly upon the investors who has not looked into the situation. There is nothing in that place which warrants investment at tae present time. at least. and there is nothing but tc range and possibly agriculture which will develop that country. and that can only be done after the develop ! ment of water. No one sho.~d invest there without first investigating. I would not SaTe a lot there if l had to pay the taxes on t. I believe this can fairly be said in the interest of the innocent purchaser who invests upon tile statements whic1 have been sent out from thvre by tae press agent
 Becaase of the fact that there are more or less Bisbee people interested in tn Bouse country the writer feels that Mir. Arnlstrong's assertions. founded apparoutly upon Insufficient information, should receire some at ' tention- Insofar as that gentleman ! estimate of the possibilities of a townsite at Rouse is concerned the writer must admit that he knows ' litle of its worth; but in view of | thorough acquaintance with the min eral aspect of that region he feels no qualm in saying that the above men | finvad (nInfaa ufs ae F.fn b .f | a profound ignorance of conditions of | that portion of the Plomosa mining district. Whatever may be tse vir- ! tues Of Bouse as a future settlement | 1t is absolutely certain that the splen- did mining properties iu its neigh horhOOd will in the near future coIn- pei the founding of a supply statloR | in that vicinity.
 l The Muderbach, Gaynor Quinn. Ms | Mahau. BCuse. and several other prop critics tlere have such rich surface l 'howings that no man who has made even CursoTy examination Of their surface can honestly say, that there is nothing but the range and possibly lagriculture which will deYe.ou that | country" More than year ago Muderbach refused $500 000 for his ! group. and he and his neicnbor Mo Mahan have. been shipping ore for some time None Of the owners there !, wish to sell. as most of them feel that they can do better by shipping their own ore.
 lzFrom the Gaynor-Quinu group the writer took two samples more than q year ago. One was a selected sample from 8 ten-foot aole; the other was taken from d dozen places on the out lcroppings. Perez lone of the best assayers in Los Angeles) gave re- turns on the selected sample of go per cent copper, St1 gold. and $t silver; the general sample ran fl per cent copper, g. gold. and trace in silver. | Moreover the formation Of the coun try is perfect geologically and other wise for the presence of copper.
 AN EXPERT QUOTED.
 The late William E. Coghlan. well known in Bisbee, and q mining man of unquestioned ability and wide prac ltical experience, made the following lreport on the property from which the samples were taken:
 TOPOGRAPHY"
 The property is situated in the ' 4OAfg0a 4A1naAE lSA7Al4EA. T hAlti tDult- lty. Arizona, about ten miles south
 from Bouse. a station on the Santa Fe railroad. at an elevation of 25OO feet above sealeyel, and is reached by a good wagon road of about 1 per cent
 grade.
 "GENERAL DESCRIPTION"
 The claims are located on thc
 northern slope of the Pionosa range. Although undeveloped the markedly favorable conditions for ore deuosi-
 ton is at once apparent. The few open cuts that have been made sug- gest ore with depth. Like all mirlns districts in Arizona timber and wai-i
 are scarce. Water should be encoLu
 tered at about 900 feet from the sur
 ace of the lower gulcles. The ad- \ oiHf1g property is that known as tns dudeFbach group. They lie in the
 same limestone zone and have prOv-f. . to a certain extent that the formation
 Is richly mineralized. T'le little worh done on them gives a clue as 10 the nature of the ore occurrence. They have not as yet produced anythihi,.
 since their work has been done with-
 out regard for system or prop.: s
 (The work here referred to by Cosh. Ian consists mainly of assessment
 holes) Still they can show several
 thousand dollars worth of ore.
 PATHOLOGY AND MINERAGOCY. .r
 "The general formation is thae of ipreCafn5rian sch'st uncOnfOrnla biy
 Overlain by quartzites. shades. ana
 I'aleozoic iimestoues. These sedi-
 mentaries nave been crushed. tilted,
 fractured, and faulted by the dynamic movements of later age. The va
 rious eruptives-diorite. diAbase. rhy- olite. quartz and granite po-Dhyries are well represented. They appear as dikes. sheets. sills. and irregular
 masses and have been intruded into and cut the limestone at seemingly
 regular intervals. These intrusions . have resulted in contact n1etanaOr-
 pAism. as shown by the characferist. ! ljc contact minerals-spsculari s.ai- net. epidote. and magnetic The
 porphyries also appear to be mineral ized and with depth should pe of hconomic value. Hematiie or the
 specular variety is abundant and w'ne
 ly scattered The ore which o1tcrops
 is usually capped with tas SDeculaf iron and limonite.
 The ore thus found carries the
 usual amount of gold and silvur which characterizes copper ore bodies, leach ing removing the copper and leaving
 the greater part of the gold and sil-