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PAGE TEN j BOUSE IS THRIVING TOWN j IS SUPPLY POINT FOR BIG DISTRICT Geographically Bouse is ideally sit uated to become one of the most im portant mining centers of western Arizona. It is the junction point of the Swansea railroad, and this enter prise alone is worth many thousands of dollars per year to the town. It is the natural supply point for a large and prosperous mining country sur rounding it on all sides. Bouse is the entrance to the great placer fields of northern Yuma coun ty, located near Quartzsite. Several large placer companies are now pre paring for active operations, and all the supplies and machinery must come in byway of Bouse. Both Swansea and Planet are trib utary to Bouse, and these properties are making a record of achievement in the production of copper unequal ed by any other properties in this sec tion of the state. During the present month it is ex pected that the Clara Consolidated | The Ironton—A Mountain of Mineral j One of the largest outcrops around Bouse is on what is known as the Ironton group. To date if is prac tically unexplored except for surface workings but the owner. W. C. De Spain, hopes to interest capital with in the next few months and thor oughly prospect the property with churn drill. The group is about six mils from E. use in a southwesterly direction and consists of eleven claims at the foot of Four Peaks mountain. The lrontoi group is a veritable mountain of mineral. Several open cuts and location holes, and one 20-foot shaft have revealed several small but exceptionally strong and well defined veins of copper-gold ore. Mining men who have inspect ed the prop*?.' v state that there is every indication of a phenomenal ore body beneath the outcrop, at a comparatively shallow depth It is the great mass of iron, how ever, that is attracting attention at present. Several iron and steel mills have at various times evinced an interest in the property and at | Yuma* Chief" Gold "and Copper Company j Few properties in western Arizona have more excellent ore showings than the seven claims of the Yuma Chief Gold & Copper company. Sur rounded on two sides by the Planet and Mineral Hill, and with the Ar gus, Maryland. Continental and But ler properties completing the circle, the Yuma Chief lays in practically the center of a well proven mineral zone. The property is essentially a cop per-gold mine, having been worked at various times for gold and at other times for its copper content, during the past few years for both. Lack of even poor transportation facilities during the early history of the property hampered, bu' did not prevent, the development of the mine and with it and its neighbors rapidly becoming producers of high grade ore there is more than a good prospect of a railroad being built to within a few hundred yards of the property within the near future. During the early days of Aiizona s mining activity, when boundary dis putes were carried on at long range and frequently began and ended with a shot, the Yuma Chief’s ca reer was somewhat checkered. The SOUTHERN HOME COOKING at the EVANS RESTAURANT Next to Burke’s Hotel BOUSE. ABIZ. M3tS. ELIZA ‘ EVANS. Prop. Heals at AH Hours. Quick Service Mining company will take over its property at Swansea, the receiver having practically discharged all of the old debts of the company from ore shipments the past couple of years. That Swansea is one of the big mines of this part of Arizona is evi denced by the net earnings of the company for a four months’ period ending February 23, 1917. As shown by the trustee’s report, the period of four months yielded a net cash balance of $47,310.52, not withstanding there had been paid the <sum of $9,441.32 for back taxes, to gether with some smaller items of old debt. On Oct. 24, there was cash on hand to the amount of $22,334.95, which, added to the net cash acquir ed during the past four months, left available cash to the amoxiut of $69,- 645.47. During this period there was shipped to the smelters 452 cars of ore, the returns of sixty-seven of which are not included in the re ceipts, the ore being in transit. The total value of the ore shipped and accounted for was $215,050.15. To this shiuld be added the estimated value of ore in transit, $37,416.15. bringing the gross value of ore shipped up to the goodly sum of $252,446.30. It will be seen from these figures one time there # was considerable talk of utilizing the large deposits of iron oxide in the manufacture of paint. These negotiations fell through for one reason or another and the prop erty has remained in Mr. DeSpain’s possession for the past seven years. The general formation of the sur rounding country is porphyrj and . ■ ■ % ¥• » v SHOWING BIG DIKE CROSSING IRONTON. I rich deposits, then worked for gold alone, occasioned many feuds among Mexican chloriders. During the past few years, how ever, or since the present owners took over the various claims pre viously known as the Mexican group and consolidated them into the Yu j ma Chief, peace has reigned on the | property and the owners have ship i ped copper-gold ore that netted them .in excess of SIO,OOO. The last car : load shipment, sent to the smelter I at Hayden a few weeks ago, averaged ! 9 per cent copper and carried an additional value in gold of $14.40 per ton. The ore bodies of the Yuma Chief occur in much the same formation as those of the Planet, Mineral Hill and neighboring properties. The basic footwall rock is granatic gneiss. On the gneiss is a vein of hematite iron ore and lime roclwand ! above lies a thick stratum of scniets. ; The principal ore bodies occur ; j along the footwall and along the limestone schists contact The geu i eral trend of the formation is east and west with a dip of about 40 de grees south. ■ | Three large veins, plainly trace that, while rapidly digging itself out of the financial hole, the Swansea Consolidated, through its own pay roll and by paying treatment charges upon a very large tonnage, as well as a liberal contribution to the rail roads, is disbursing a handsome sum each month in northern. Yuma county. Another important property that is bound to bring Bouse to the front is that of the Arizona Enterprise Min ing company. A detailed description of this company’s property is publish ed in this part of The Post. The company’s equipment is now on the ground and set up, and active opera tions are going forward with most encouraging results. The Mohican Copper company is carrying on very extensive opera tions. It has a complete equipment of machinery for deep mining and development is progressing under the most favorable conditions. The Mo hican shaft is being sunk to the sul phide ore zone. At 350 feet a flow of water was encountered, necessi tating the installation of two No. 6 Cameron pumps. A station has been cut at the 400-foot level and the shaft is now nearing the 475-foot point. Pockets or lenzes of cropper ore, both carbonates and sulphides, are lime. Through this formation, frequently rising abruptly above the general contour of the land, cuts the big iron dike, about 600 feet wide on the surface at one place and easily traceable on the surface for several thousand yards by various outcrops. The action of surface waters and softer material has resulted in ex able along the surface of the prop erty by outcrops, and smaller ones , occur on the property. The most pro nounced ledge intersects two others but slightly less pronounced, at the : southwestern edge of the Yuma j Chief and the development of the property has been concentrated at that point. The development consists of nu merous tunnels, shafts, open cuts, etc., with considerable lateral work in shafts and tunnels. The longest tunnel is 300 feet in length at pres , ent. and the deepest shaft about 120 feet. The best ore body samples of which assay very high in gold has been encountered in tunnel No. 3. which is 280 feet in length and con nects with shaft N 0.6 at a depth of about 70 feet below the collar of the latter. Three cars of ore recently ship ped from material removed while j driving the tunnel, averaged 11 per I cent copper and slightly better than ; sl7 per ton in gold. Considerable | ore has been blocked out by cross | cuts, and ‘drifts in this working, a. ; 60-foot crosscut being all in ore and ! no hanging wall in sight. At this part of the property the | ; mountain is practically honeycombed | with workings. There are six shafts 'j and four tunnels, all of which have i disclosed good ore, some samples car rying free gold assaying as high as S4OO per ton. No. 6 shaft, which is j sunk vertically to a depth of about 100 feet, in addition to connecting with tunnel No. 3 connects with an 80-foot incline drift which has pro duced a lot of good ore, and has been sloped for a considerable distance in several places. No. 4 shaft, an S5-foot incline, is sunk on a 4-foot vein of exceptional THE PARKER POST. : MINES OF BOUSE NUKING GOOD : ■ being cut, but the shaft is still in the . leached zone. The formations on the i Mohican property are ideal, and it . is the general belief that between , the 500 and 600-foot levels the zone , of secondary enrichment will be en . countered. ; > Gus Mudersbach is developing his property with a large degree of suc cess, a recent strike of high-grade ore having been made in the mine. This property is also treated in a special article in this department of I The Post. • There are scores of good prospects around Bouse worthy of development and mining men are getting into that < district by the dozens. Business con ditions in Bouse were never more prosperous than at the present time. Developments in the mines in the immediate vicinity of Bouse are of a most encouraging nature, and there is no doubt but that Bouse will bring in several good producers the coming ! year. posing the big iron deposit, and ravines on two sides have practically blocked out a tonnage, estimated as high as 10,000,000 tons of ore Close sampling every ten feet over the area exposed gave an average of 55 per cent oxide of iron, 38 per cent silica, 1.65 per cent alumina, 1.10 per cent lime, 1.68 per cent magnesia, witn I a negligible percentage of mangan ese and phosphorus. An automobile road connects the property with Bouse with a gentle slope of probably 1 per cent from the group to the town,which makes it an admirable road for transporting ore to the railroad. On the face of ■ the outcrop about all that would be needed to get out the ore would be a steam shovel. Several mining engineers have suggested that the property be ex plored with churn drill where the iron dike intercepts another and smaller contact at right angles,as it is believed from indications of leach ing in the porphyry, that a large deposit of copper sulphides will be found near the permanent water level. ly high-grade copper Which is in creasing in value with depth. Gold in this shaft, across the entire face, averages about sls per ton. No. 5 shaft, an incline about (JO feet deep at present, has two 30-foot " drifts, all in ore of about the same « grade, with a 4 -foot streak of high grade copper showing in the bottom of the shaft. No. 2 tunnel, which is only a lev hundred feet from No. 5 shaft, has been driven for a length of about 70 feet following the foot wall of the vein and has a 3-foot streak of high grade that carries a total value in gold and copper of about $96 per ton. Considerable sloping has been done in this tunnel and also a small ■ amount of crosscutting. It is the plan of the company to continue the No. 4 tunnel to a length of about 500 feet where it is expected to cut the main ore body at a vertical depth of about 200 feet. This will probably be the main work ing for the present. It is probable that vertical shaft Mo 6 will be con nected with the tunnel, and if this j is done several thousand tons of ore i will be practical!v blocked out. j All in all, th*3 Yuma Chits is re garded by mining men of the vicin ity as being one of the most likely mining ventures in the district. The property is controlled by Joseph S. Morgan and Ferd Fettgather of liu buque, lowa, respectively president and secretary-treasurer of the cor poration. They have invested con siderable money, in the neighbor hood of $25,009, in the property and have brought it to the point where very little additional devel opment will be required to put it on a paying basis. At present it is more than self-sustaining A. & C. Mercantile Co. 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