Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

IS located over the mill These de- signs involve less expenditure than was invested in residences built pre- vious the past summer and fall, at the same time retaining attractive ness in style and conveniei1ve in re- spect to interior. Colonial, Qu5e Anne and Eastlake designs prevail The recently completed residence of Foreman Perkins is a, five-room cot age, colonial in design. The inter or wood work Is Shasta pine, natural wood finish. Other cottages vary in style in all respects, the wood being the same. These company houses cost from $500 to S1,S00, ard very respect able building such as the enc occucied by MT. Perkins cost but $1 200 It is the purpose of the United Verde Cop per company to erect brick off1ce building, with whF ch will be united the paraphernalia associated with the Of flee of Superintendent Giroux, tha' of civil engineer and assayer. This building will be located a few rods east of the quarters now occup'el ty Financial Agent Allen and associates. It will have an elevation of two stor- | ies. and face the county road which winds around the mountain to and through the town of Jerome below The erection of down town boarding house is contemplated, this to be bull, 1 in close proximity to the cot ages, road being opened to give access from | the county road Brick will form the bulk of material to be used in con- struction The building of this s.ruc- ture is an early spring beginning, meantime handsome edffice is being reared in the business center. sdiofn- ing the O'Keefe building on the east Grading was completed this week and stone masons will enter upon their duties prior to New Years day. The ground space designed for this new
 building will cover an evparse of 1 tifty-one feet six inches by 100 feet in depth. The rock for the lower sto-y is quarried about five miles out on the narrow gauge and over 5O0,00N brick have been burned at the junction by the United Verde Copper company, as | will be kilns needed in the other
 bricks mentioned in this paragraph. The building will rise four stories, the first two floors for occupation by T. F.
 Miller & Co.,, who represent the ccp- per company The third floor is de- signed as a public hall and the, fourth
 as a lodge room, with the necessary
 ante-rooms, etc. 1 am promised full
 details for publication early next
 month. As to bank, the company
 has repeatedly given out that it has
 no intention of establishing a deposi- tory, the Prescott bank filling the bill.
 In and about the works improvement S go on without apparent discontinuance even in '9S.
 A new 125-horse power GOO kilo.)
 generator has been set up, in addit;o ]
 to which are two sixties. Besides the needs of the works the mine and town.
 four electric motors are used in the
 smelter and in the mine. The town
 takes 1.200 lights. Twenty arc lights i are in service in the works the de-
 pot and around houses. The new
 marble switch board 7.6x14 feet. is in position. Electrician Schuelzel is one
 of the busiest of men. The mo ors
 used to haul out slag save over twenty
 men each in their operations
 Eight marine boilers supp an ed the
 boilers heretofore in use, the big boil
 CTS going into service this year.
 The work attending the adjustment of the new hoist will necessitate shut
 ting down for few days subsequent
 to the January pay day.
 About 700 men are on, the pay roll
 of the company, to include thosa en- ployed on the railway. Regular month
 ly pay day falls on the 10th, and Mex, 1can wood choppers are paid on or be-
 fore the 5th. The choppers receive
 S15O a day. Five dollars a cord is paid for wood, to include the choppers pay.
 There is all of six miles of rail in
 the smelter, in the mine and on the route to the roasters.
 1 An interesting feature is that of precipitation, in vogue about two years. This Is in the nature of a bath of solution of sulphite of cop | per, which is emitted from the levels and runs down the gulch and there retained in tubs where iron is depos- | lted and allowed to remain until tha | copper IS absorbed, forming a crust. Ten hours is takenL according to cir l cumstances. in the treatment. The yard next to the smelter is fast being cleared of iron. which is broken up to l go in these solution tanks.
 The company store of T. F. Miller & Co. and adjoining warehouses carry l stock valued at $6O,OO0. Below the store is the big hospital. Dr. Woods l in charge.
 There must be 100 roast piles stretched out to the northeast and be- low the smelter
 The company pays the largest in- dividual sum in taxes to Yavapai coun- i ty, the s. F. P. & P. a good second. l KloEdyke is a stat on at the head nf Lonesome valley. The company's saw mill is located at this siding
 The Jerome Copper company is hay ing blue prints male, these to show the location of its claims north of the | United Verde. More active operations will be entered into by the Jerome company early next year.
 l Interest in the outcome of the Equator case before the supreme court in January at Phoan Is growing as i the day approaches. A word or two about mining in, general in Yavapai