Arizona republican., 1900-09-09
NEWS OF JEROME
What Is Going On In the Big Copper
 Camp.

Jerome, Ariz. Sept. 7.-(sDecial CT respondencc of the RepubHcanD-Coa- siderable good mining news has been floating around Jerome the past few days. The strike in the Broollshire is attracting its share of attention. The assay frcm piece of the ore gave return of 2S cc-1OO per cent. copper, 734 ounces silver, and $4 in gold t5 the ton. The assay is most gratifying to the Treadwell company, and to every resident of the town. A specimen of the ore, tog5 her with the assay returns is on exhibition in Cooks jeweiry store window, where it is attracting cCnsid- orable attention. Should the ore body be large, as they predict, the strike will be equal to any made in Arizona re- gently. The TreadweH company is de- velOping the Cliff group also, with eX- cellent chances of striking good ore in large bodies. The mountains south of Jerome are filled with minerals and only need honest prospecting and de veloping to make producing mines all around that section. Then there is the Mineral Point district tha. is on the. verge of a great mining boom. Beyond doubt the country there contains some paying gold mines. At a depth of 57 feet in tine Mike Lawler mine, there is said by responsible parties to be a large body Of free milling gold ore eight feet through the ledge. avere ging S25 per ton. Supplies are sent tU the district by some one sinking shaf,, every few days. from stores in Jerome. Ther- are som great bodies of ore there.
 This morning the ladies Of the Epis- cOpal guild chartered a hack and VI Tt to the Verde on a picnic. They had lunch enough for twice the number that went
 The wedding day has been set for .am. rrow for three couples of pIomine mt young Mexican people in Jerome. The contracting parties are Jose NJ. Ab- bolt ard Miss Luisa Palm; Francisco Abbott and Miss Guadalupe Ortiz. ana Francisco Marquez and Miss Maria I5ps@a. All he parties are high in M XiCan circles. There will be d grand ball given in tUe opera house after the weddings. tO which a large number of friends have been invited. Your coz respondent has the honor of being counted among the friends of the par ties, and will be there to report the affair as it deserves.
 The Moderns took up good work al their meeting last night and ap- pointed d committee t. solicit aid 1or the family of tn man who decdmped two weeks ago with all the funds of the Miners union. The family was Ief. in destitute circumstance $. Mrs. BeIk the woman. is far from well and has five children depend nt upon her roi support. She has a chance to sell her little house and what furniture she has for $GO. That amount, wi,h what the Mo1erns will raise for her will pay her way to California, where she thinks she can live cheaper than in Jerome and raise her children properly The case is deserving of pity and help. and the Moderrs by their charitable acu show themselves 70 be che kind of people the town needs. They will so- licit money this afternoon from all the citizens of th t-wn. Mrs. Harlan en- tered into the work with such hearty good will she raised over S. for the poor woman within five minutes. Such ef- forts will bring forth fruit.
 Boss Head is in town shaking hands with his many friends.
 D. D. MCDONALD.