Arizona republican., 1900-07-25
TIE NEWS
 OF JEROME

Jerome. July 23.-(Special correspond- 7 ence of The Reprblican.)-Jerome IS becoming more like a city every day At the rate the town is forging ahead Phoenix will have to look well to her resources if she wishes to remain the largest town in the territory. We nave society and churches, just like all i'm portant places and now we have music every Sunday evening by the brass band: at least we enjoyed that diver sion yesterday evening and the boys say they will honor US every Sunday with the same treat. The crowd in the vicinity bore testimony that their ef- forts were appreciated. Such a thing as a band rehearsal in a genuine band stand would have seemed out Of tha question five years ago; but Jerome of today is not to be compared with the Jerome of that time. Now we have some of the finest buildings in Arizona and many that would be a credit to any city in the land. The next thing you people in Phoenix will know We will have a first class water works and tEeA watch our smoke.
  last week in which A. N. Bartholdi re- leases all his title and interest in the Bartholdi group of mining claims, six in all. for the sum of $5,0OO in cash and 4. 900 shares of stock in the 1ntern1- tional Financial Mining company ot New York. The group of mines is situ- ated in the Black Canyon district about eight miles south of Jerome. They are copper claims and show indications of being large mines. MT. Bartholdi To- tcated the claims in 1895, since when time he has kept up his assessment work on all of them, besides doing more than the law required to hold theni- The development work done by MT Bartholdf consists of two shafts, twenty and fifteen feet in depth, four turner's, in twenty-five, twenty sixty and lIV feet respectively. In one place there IS an ore body fifteen feet in width The ore in the ledge is low grade, where it Is so wide, but in other places there is rich copper ore in smaller quantities. The company that purchased the claims had them bonded once before and let their bond expire. Three months ago they took a bond on the property
  the money down. The International Financial company incorporated ln New York for s, GOO, are the pur- chasers of the mines, but they will be a branch of that company and will be operated under the name of the verde King Copper company. Active opera lions will begin in the near future. As q beginning the new owners will let contracts for sinking two shafts on the property 100 fect-in depth each, and a tunnel to be run in the mountain oeI feet Boarding and bunk houses will be put up and other necessary improve ments made on the premises. The ccr- pany has plenty of money behind it and will spend some of it prospecting the Bartholdi group for bodies of ore.
 Acting Mayor Beagley and wife, Note Allison and Mrs. GOrum are spending a week on Oak creek, the finest summer resort in this county.
 There will be a genuine old fashioned basket supper at the Methodist church next Tuesday evening. The ladies will put up lunches which will be sold, the purchaser to have the exquisite pleas ure of dining with the lady who put up the lunch.
 There now seems to be no doubt about the man named Howe who was murdered by unknown parties, being the Howe formerly of this place Every paper containing an account of the killing gives different names and in ! itials, but several papers speak of How q having wife and two little children. so there seems to be no hope that it is not the same W. II. Howe of Jerome. The case is a sad one, and the bereava1 wife has the sympathy of all her many friends here.
 Al Sheffield and J. T. Ross went to Prescott yesterday in response to calls from the United States court. They did not go to stand trial for crimes committed, hut as jurymen. Several Q he- JerOTe citizens are there on the Ear hrsiaoss
 l Wilson will have his preliminary examination this afternoon for thump- ing an Italian on the head with an iron bar. The sympathy of the public is with the defendant.
 Mrs. Endle. the fashionable dress maker of Jerome, is making al wedding dress for Jerome lady but will not tell the name of the one who will wear