Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-01-10

uoSS aI6 all oAp6TLS HI Ou0lI pIOl0S- sion, and exceedingly courteous and obliging to all patrons, whether the purchase is small or large. Messrs. Tovrea & Clay have i'll connection with their butcher shop first class cold storage plant, enabling them to keep their meats in perfect con- dition during the heated term. MT. F. W. Howard conducts a fruit and general produce stand in the front of the shop, where all fruits, vegetables, game, etc.. can be pur chase, while in season.
 The new Catholic church, work on which was but recently commenced is progressing with satisfactory rapidity, the stone foundation hay ing been already completed and the brick walls being well under way. This will form another attractive building to the town when con- pleted.
 There are a number of other buildings worthy of mention and particularly the hospital. While it has been in use for several months, and hence is not considered new in a town where SO many have been built since it was, it is the finest hospital building in the territory. It is fitted up with all the most modern conveniences and latest ap- pliances found in such institutions, and with its well lighted and we'll ventilated rooms It can almost be considered a pleasure to be un- fortunate enough to become an oc- cupant of of it. It is presided over by Dr. Wood, a skilled physician and surgeon and whose sunny dis position is itseIt a benediction to the sick and afflicted.
 Another institution of the town which is popular with the travelling public is Hotel Conner, owned and presided over by David Conner, one of the pioneers of the camp.
 Instead of the hap-hazard. sloven " appearance, so often found in the business houses of mining camps, Jerome can asst of as neat, system a,ic and up-to-date institu tions as any town in the territory, and some of them even excel in these points. Among the latter may be mentioned its principal barber shop, which in point of the elegance and neatness of its appointments has but few rivals even in the larger cities of California.
 Leaving the progressive and rap idly growing town. and climbing the steep and tortuouS road to the cOmpany's works, one is filled with amazement at their stupendous pro- portions. The steam for motive power is generated i'll ten monstrous marine boilers and then conveyed to monster engines, from eight to a dozen in number develops into moving capacity of 2500 horse power. which drives hoists, blowers, dynamos, air compressers and ma chinery Of almost every kind. While one wanders around the labyrinth of machinery which is found on every side, kettle shaped car filled wi h a ton or more of the hottest kind of red hot slag goes whizzing past him, while just over there an immense piece of machinery, suspended from a frame in mid air, depending from which is a Sort of cab, inside of which is a man who operates the whole thing, and be- heath him, again, another great monster kettle which has just been filled with molten metal from a seething cauldron filled with the same material, is whirled by electric power from one end of the building to the other, where it is emptied into anoiher cauldron to undergo another process toward ultimate re- fnement into pure copper. These machines are called electric cranes, and the precision with which they perform their work is simply re- markabIe. On every side can be seen streams of red hot molten metal and slag, the former under going the various processes, from being extracted from the ore to that of being refined into pure copper and moulded into bars of this metal. Without going into details in re- gard to the magnitude of the works, an idea can be obtained of it from the fact that there are six of the latest improved water jacket furnaces, each of 200 tons daily capacity, a large reverbatorv fur mace, some three or four converters and one refining furnace. To get rid of the smoke and fumes from these immense furnaces a smoke stack six feet in diameter has been constructed to the top of the noun tain, several hundred feet above the works, and another smoke stack. 165 feet high and 20 feet Tn circumfer- ence carries off a large portion of them far above the works.
 Over a thousand men are en- ployed by the company and the monthly output (unofficially stated is about 6,000,000 pounds, or 5000 tons, per month, or 100 tons daily To transport this product out and the coke and other supplies in, keeps the motive power of the mar now guage railroad taxed to its ut most. The road is twenty-eight miles long and three regular trains are run each way each day and often the business is so great that an extra trip or two has to be made.
 The road is managed by General R. H. G. Minty, very capable and experienced railroad man and a courteous gentleman whom 1t is all ways pleasure to meet.
 The regiment of employees are under the superintendency of J. l.. Giroux, while the finances of the company are under the supervision of H. J. Allen, who has a corps of not only efficient, but gentlemanly and obliging assistants under him.
 The writer and his wife and their guest, Mrs. J. c. Buck of Gilroy, California, were placed under spe- cial obligations to General Minty, MT. Allen, MT. Hastings and MT. Strodthoff for courtesies and favors extended during their visit, and to whom they are largely indebted for the pleasures received from the trip.
 Visitors are always treated very courteously by all connected with the company, and none ever visit the place without becoming in tensely interested in the operations of the mammoth works.