Weekly journal-miner., 1910-02-02
BouSe District Has Ra- pid1y Come to The
 Front
Camp is Assuming the Proportions of Live
 Town

ROUSE, Ariz., Jan. 25.-Bouse is going to be one of the most important towns in Arizona. Up to one year ago it was only a speek on the map with barely a half-dozen houses. Now 1t has two mercantile establishments doing a business of nearly $50, ,000 a year, two big hotels and sixteen other business places, with scores of houses which are not tents or shacks but solidly built of lumber, concrete or cement blocks. A fine 25x50 two story cement block store is being built, probably for a bank, near N. J. Dunn's rustic cement block resi- dence. The Bouse-Swansea Ice and Cold Storage company have under way a plant with a cold storage ea- pacity of three car loads and an ice production of twelve tons per day. An electric light plant will soon be constructed in connection with it. E. Greenwood, the manager, is the active man of the Bouse Townsite company. Abundance of the best water is secured by sinking wells from 25 to 30 feet, inexhaustible as to quantity and amply sufficient to supply not only the town for domestic use, lawns and gardens, but also for irrigation of thousands of acres of land and the development of a fine fruit and farming district. Fire wood is free, spreading all over the desert.
 The beginning of this active de- velopment is due to the opening of the Little Butte mines, distant only four miles, and there are hundreds of mining claims in the vicinity which promise returns of similar char acter. There are large bodies of gold and copper ore ranging in value from $10 to $40 pc rton.
 The Arizona & Swansea railway is graded for 21.6 miles and rails are laid for ten miles. It will be com pleted within ninety days to the Clara Consolidated mines and the smelter at Swansea, which has a capacity of 700 tons, and which will be completed when reached by the railway. Present population of Bouse is about 800 and in six months time, it seems from present prospects, it may reach fully 1000. Bouse has a good school and religious services every Sunday.
 Little Butte.
 One year ago the Little Butte min ing claims were purchased by the Arizona -Bouse Copper company. At that time the deepest workings were in 25-foot shafts. Since that time the company has been reorganized and renamed, the Little Butte Consoli- dated Mines company. This company has forged steadily ahead with de- velopment, never ceasing operations. Today the development work con- sists of a first class inclined working shaft that is 3s5 feet deep and is being sunk by three shifts each 24 hours, to a 5O0-foot level. The bot. tom of the shaft, at the present time is reported to be in ore averaging better than $9 in gold and 3 per cent copper. There have been cross cuts and drifts run at the 100, 200 and 300 foot levels, to determine the extent and value of the ore bodies At the 50-foot level there are about 100 feet of drifting. At the 10O-foot level there are about 50 feet of cross cutting and about 800 feet of drift ing. At the 2OO-foot level there are about 200 feet of crosscutting and about 200 feet of drifting. At the 3OO-foot level there is about 70 feel of crosscutting. All these crosscut: and drifts are in ore of commercial value. The company has made ont of the greatest showings for the amount of work done and money ex pended of any company in northern Yuma county. The writer has nc hesitancy in saying that the futur, surprises that this mine has in store for its stockholders will be as grea as in some of the very biggest mines of the territory. While the value of the ore in the oxidized zone ar, principally in gold, there is no ques tion that, when the sulphide zone i reached, the copper values will in crease this ore to more than doubl' its present value.