Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03
TO OCONSOLIDATE ALL DISTRICTS UNDER
 BOU5E'S NAME
Mines Not Developed As Yet But Surface Ore
 Looks Good

Bouse on practically all sides there are
 several mining districts which are, for
 convenience, all punched together un-
 der the one name of the BOuse Min
 ing District or the Bouse District Ap- plication will be made to have the
 entire district called the Bouse dis
 trict, with each of the smaller districts
 as subdivisions of the one great dis
 triet. This great district is about
 seventy-fve miles square and taking
 it all together it is likely to develop
 into the richest mining district in
 North America, particularly in copper,
 although there are good gold proper
 ties now working and many excellent
 prospects,. There are also rich lead ! deposits as well as silver.
 It is true none of these has fully
 developed into large mines as yet, all
 though several have been developed
 beyond the prospect stage and the
 deep workings have proven beyond
 any doubt the richness of the miner
 ahzed zone. The Clara Consolidated,
 the Planet, the McCracken, the Ca
 brella, the Little Butte, the Bullion
 and the Mudersbach are all developed
 mines; that is, they have been devel-
 oped beyond the prospect stage and
 are shipping propositions. These prop
 critics cover a great territory and the ores being taken out are rich. How
 ever, eaen of these mines are but lit
 tie developed to what they will be and the more they are developed the richer and greater they will be and they will be as large as the owners care to make them.
 The object of this article is to de- scribe one small division or district of the greater district, and that is the particular territory covered by the Little Butte, the Dutehman gruop, | the claims of Bouse and McMahan, ] and the claims known as the Woods | properties. The Little Butte covers | one claim, although the present own CTS, Meyers and Bishop of Los An geles, have bought five other claims | near the Little Butte and will consol- idate them into a property of six claims. The Dutcnman group is com pose of five claims and the recent pur- chaser, John W. Leddy of Pasadena, Cal, purchased four other claims from J. C. Denton adjoining the Dutchman, which makes the Dutchman group con sist of nine claims. The Woods prop critics, owned by H. E. Woods of Los Angeles and Frank Woods of Colorado Springs, are composed of twenty-seven claims, nine of which are patented, and the claims of BOuse and McMalan number twenty. In addition to this, J. C. Denton has several fractions and outlying claims in the zone about which this article treats.
 This district, which is located in the extreme north end of the PlomOsa Range, in fact, in the low foothills of the range, that is, where the noun tains come down into the valley, is six miles from Bouse to the south and west of the city. While the formation of this group of claims is largely diff ferent from other formations in the greater district, yet the general char acter is much the same and there is just as rich ore found elsewhere. The { according to prominent geolOgists, are that this district was at one time a small volcano, the crater of which was in the middle of the dis r .rict and the lava rolled out and spread q Il nearly all directions, more, however, t away from the high mountains than I towards them, making the mineralized v .One in the shape of horseshoe. At a my rate, the main mineralized zone is raeeable for a distance of five miles t 'unning in the shape of horse shoe V md dipping from the center or crater. The zone is from half to one mile s vide and from all surfact indications a nd prospect holes the naturalization a eems to be about equally distributed. fl The entire plat is covered with a cap f ing of iron gOssin and lime with k likes of iron and lime sticking out at O ariOus points and sometimes running e or some distance. These dikes do h Ot run parallel. Interspersed all b trough the zone are found stringers c f copper ore, carbonate of copper in p ron and lime. At some places these tringers, or cracks as some call them, p re narrow and then they will open k ut in lenses several feet wide. These di tringers do not run regular but some al faces they are three or four feet Y part, while in others they will be if y or one hundred feet apart. Some a laees they run east and west and