Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-10-20
A TRIP TO JEROME.
Building and Business Activity at
 Jerome Junction.

Scenic Grandeur of Ride Over the
 U. V. S P. Railroad to
 the Copper City.
 A JOURNAL MISER representative made a flying business trip to Je- rome Friday. At Jerome Junction We found business quite active. The copper company have cleared the ground east of the coal bunkers and will burn 100000 brick this fall. A bunk house is being built for the accommodation of thirty-fve men, who arc now employed on the works. Making of bSick begins today, and and by the use of two machines, 10000 brick can be turned out daily.
 The Jerome Junction hotel has changed hands, Peter Greenland now having charge. Mir. Greenland is reftting the hotol, and by the em- ployment of first class holp. is now prepared to give the travelling pub he excellent service. Mir. Greenland is courteous gentleman, and in spite of his name, is capable of giv- ing S warm and hearty welcome. to his guests. Several housesare in course of construction, and every thing indicates growth of the town. There is talk of general merchan- disc establishment being put in there at once.
 A trip over the United Verde X Pacific railroad from Jerome June ton to Jerome, the greatest copper mining camp in the west, is pleas ure, made so by the gorgeous splen- dor of the scenic panorama that greets you aE every curve of the narrow guage as it winds its way around the steep mountciu sides, many times causing the little train to gToan with pain caused by cuFva- ture of the spine. Leaving the June ton, you are borne rapidly along through q wide valley fourteen miles then you enter the foot hills that soon give evidence of the pros. pectors' invasion in the holes that peep out at every turn, and in more ways than ono telling of the blasted hopes of the seekers after suddenly acquired wealth.
 We wero speeding along at fairly good gait, anticipating an early arrival in Jerome, when all of a sud den we came to stAndstill, and knew we were confronted with ouI first experience in a railroad wreck There were twenty passenger: aboard, several of whom were wo men. As as result, feminine screams and feminin6 tears with vigor ous clutchings at masculine coat tails added to the excitement of the moment. Finding We were all safe there was hasty landing of paSsen gers to find that the engine aud ten der had left the track within twenty feet of a forty-6ve foot trestle and rolled down the bank, landing upside down. Amidst the roar oI escaping steam, neither engineer nol fireman were visible, and we believed them both killed. Soon the engineel crawled out of the wreck, practic- ally uniujured, and the fireman Wa, found fifty yards away, sitting on [ rock, with blood streaming from hi. face. Outside of bruises about the face and body, his injuries wer, slight.
 A messenger was sent to Jerome Junction, a distance of thirteeI miles. and a telegram sent to Je rome for wrecking crew. The crew arrived about 3 o'clock, the tracl was fixed, and we were taken or into Jerome, arriving there about o'clock in the evening.
 The descent into Jerome from the mountain top after night, is a sight long to be remG mGmbered. As you look down into the fiery furnaces with hyid lava pouring into the waste pots, and then down for q thousand feet at the ore roasts that terrace the mountain side and send up their lurid blue flame, you feel that Dante should have visited the scene before attempting to write his "Inferno."
 Friday was pay day, and Friday and Saturday gave evidence of this fact in the general activity in the town of Jerome, the city, that pTac. tically hangs on to the mountain by its toe nails.
 Saturday we met the genial and courteous H. J. Allen, the financial manager. Mir. Allen is . practical, level headed business man, amply qualified to conduct successfully the largest mining enterprise in this part of the country. We had a pleasant hours chat with him, and although averse to any newspaper notoriety, either for himself or his company, talked freely on topics of general interest in the mining world.
 Jerome is prosperous. It IS build ing up rapidly, many new houses being under construction. Many new mines are being developed in all directions, and the town, with a present population of 2,500, expects to double in size within the next year.
 The fertile Verde valley, that nestles between the lofty mountains, teens with farms that furnish the town with considerable produce, for which the growers receive good round price.
 Jerome is pretentious, as we'll it might be, for it enjoys a prosperous Drpsant and hag a Sti II hriohfaP mt