Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-03-14
VERDE QUEEN
 COPPER COMPANY.
REMARkA8lE RECORD MADE 84 TT IN THE ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY AND EREC-
 TON OF A PLANT.
A Shelter Expected to Be is SscSsss- ful Operation Within Seven Months Of C0musoe-
 ing Work

A mining property st Jsro2s has sprung into promins1ee almost oze- fore its existence was knox1 so sAs general public. It Is known to oas- siders as the Jordan -Cazphsll group, but in Jerome as the Naa1l- cal group, on account Of the nA1ss selected for the claims e0nposl1g 1t being mostly nautical terms
 The group consists of lwsatv-to1r claims and the great majority of them were located ia Sspss2hsE. 1899.
 About that time Col. D P. BosH worth of Marietta Ohio. . ssnslszaa who had retired from oasSnsss ssz- eral years ago, and who sngaSsd ia the oil business just for . plsssieZ diversion to his mind, and wko 2a1s success beyond all expsesaeieaz was induced by F. E. Jordan b xssse Jerome and look at some proGsss1x copper properties owned by hl2 there. Colonel BoswOEth arrived and looked over the ground aa6 was favorably impressed. aud Aa outlined policy under WhleA ks agreed to take hold of the propsrsy and develop it. Inelaosd Ia tbs policy was the location of sdlol1l1g ground, and m securing sn eFzloa or bond on several elsl1s alrsa3y located. all of which has hssa .e~ complishsd. Colonel Boswo<sA> ia the meantime, incorporated a eo@- pany under the name of tAs Esr1s Queen Copper company, the leeo<- poratlon being under tAs hxs oR New Jersey. While thsss 0aAsr preliminaries were lR progrsss sAs development of the property Wss also being pushed wltA a0 possahls speed under the supsrints11s1eE e F. E. Jordan. and . largs eoSy o1 ore was uncovered. All of thss tl2s but little was heard or zawa o1 tAs operations going on, % QoSstly yee effectively was IL done.
 It. was not until mAeAinsry es<aa to arrive that the public w2s s.krses- ed to the property, when tAsY zxoks to the fact that a new Di1s had d ready been opened up
 The claims extend so tAs Vsry limits of the town of Jsrozs aa9 the principal scene Of opsz@Esoa ss within ten minutes walk 0f ehs business part of town. \ ea<losa of ore. not very closely soxks2. wss shipped to the smelts< sk El E1so and the returns were 30 faFora1ls that taking into eoasldsssslon aAs amount of ore expoee1. 2 w4s deemed advssahle to arseG a Acxsv- ton smeltez for deTsl0p@eas P4F- poses, and men are st work ne9 grading the foundation A slAcrss power engine, 8 blower aud sksa2 hoist have also been shipped to tAs mine and three shifts of miners ars employed in sinking the sAAft- lt Is the intention of Colonel RosxcxkA to have the shelter in opsrafloa eg the first of May, or at least da<Sag the early part of the m0aGh. seiRs- ing all records in the way of opsalag up mine. and in having a plant la operation reducing the orc
 On the Columbia nine. oa whScA the shelter will be placed. they have already face of ore 10 fees wl3s exposed, and it is estimated tAAt a sufficient amount of ors can hs sAks- ly counted on to keep the s2sltsr ia operation for some tine to eoDA
 4 20-lneh guage rallroad ls als0 among the plans for the future 0t the company. Colonel Rosgo<<A~ who directs the ope<stlo1S has a able assistant in F. E. Iord2n,sap intendent of the company. s2d everything Is being done h a ther~ oughly systematic business nannes. the results already achieved. &s VII be noticed, being simply nArvsko2s for the space of time occupied
 The company Is a sort cf elcss corporation affair, the majority ot it's stockholders being psrscnA friends and associates Of COlo1al Bosworth, although there zrs tArsS Arizonans in it, being F. E Jor3cn. James s. Douglas and Tho1As E Campbell, all of whom belong to tAS
 board of directors. Col D ?, Boa-
 wrrth Is president and general Eslr ager, H. 4. Mather secretary and treasurer, and F. E. lor3Aa sapez-
 intendent and Arizona agent TAs company has sn office h lsro@ea21 one also in New York