Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-04
JEROME DISTRICT
 HAS AGAIN RESUMED
THREE FURNACES IN OPERATION AND MINERS RETURN
 TO WORK.
A Comoarison Between Jeronse and Bsbee-The United Verde Railroad. The Reformers Win First Fall.

rome last week. We expected to finC g everything underground there, ever !. the houses. after reading telegraphiC - accounts. of the cave-in when were 2 first sent out.
 p On the contrary we found that the ? miners had returned to worK under : ground after a delay of two days, and , that the smoke was coming out of the
 shelter stack as usual with two fur , naces in full blast and the third ready } to resume the following day. The cave-in at the United Verde oc
 cured on Monday May p, and al ' though the movement of the ground covered greater area than any pre- yious cave. the Company has again resumed it's usual output.
 Fortunately, the cave-in occurred
 without single personal injury being
 recorded. All the employees were
 safely taken from the mine and the
 smelter was closed down. At first
 it was feared that a long and tedious
 closedown would result but in less than twenty-four hours after the move
 ment word was sent out for the men
 to return to their places, which most
 Of them did. A small per cent left for
 other places in the Territory. With | in forty eight hours the shelter was
 blown in again. All the apartments in
 both the old and the new snaIts nave been working continuously, and there has been no further movement of the ground since the 22.
 The railroad was perhaps the most incOnYenienced by the cave ds the tracks laid where the worst depression occurred. and the most marked set ting was where the turntable was To- cated. The turntable sank a number of inches putting it entirely out Ui commission.
 ''Y" is being put in near the liar ryhousen mine for the turning of en- zines, and trains are again running to the depCt as usual.
 The United Verde railroad is one of the interesting sights in the Territory. For many years it was conceded to be the most crooked railroad in the Ter ritory, or the west for that matter, but the building of the Morenci southern with it's loops and cross-canyon bridg- es, transferred the prize belt to this company. Distance from SerOne June tion to Jerome is 26 miles and in this distance the narrow guage railroad makes 1S6 curves. Thirty of the curves are 40 per cent and two 45 per cent. The road has been in continuous oper- alton for the past ten years and the first train was run over the me June l, 1895.
 The little road has a remarkable history. Since it has been in operation all these years, with three and four trains over the road daily, there has never been a man killed on the road by accident. Government statistics go to show that this is the only road in the United States with such a record and speaks well for the care and watchful- Less of those in charge of it's operation. The first accident recorded where an employee was hurt was only few days ago when a freight engine with string of cars bound from Jerome to the Junction, left the track as it was rounding the mountain side. and plunged down the steep grade 1OO feet below. The engineer was caught half way down the mountain beneath his cab but will recover from his injuries. "Hod" Russell is the superintendent and has made the operation of the ! United Verde railroad a hobby. He Is the roadmaster. the chief of transpor- i tation, superintendent, civil engineer, and the whole business combined into enc.
 The visitor from Bisbee and Doug las to Jerome is at once struck by the comparison. Jerome is mining on a small scale as compared to B.55ee- Everybody tells you that the United Verde is wondrously rich mine with
 unlimited ore bodies and that Senator Clark, the owner, has millions he could spend in increasing his plant and the output from his mines-still he seems
 very well satisfied to jog along and the next generation.
 His ideas are different from those O. iPhelps-Dodge & Go. Prof. Douglas, the head of this corporation, believes if there is an ore body in sight that will
 run smelter twenty years, the thing
 to do is to double or treble the smelt- CT capacity, increase the working force
 at the mine, and convert this ore body into cash within six or ten years That is the theory which has made Bisbee the most prosperous camp in the west and a touch of the same spir- 1t would make Jerome teem with new life
 Jerome at present has population of two to three thousand and is the most picturesque mining camp in the
 Territory. The scenery of the Verde l Valley, with San Francisco mountain showing in the distance with its snow } capped peaks, is akin to that of the , Grand Canyon.
 The business men of Jerome are wide awake and progressive, and ' among their number may be found ' some of the most prominent men oi - the Territory.
 ei The town was recently swept by z 3 moral reform movement, and as usua - the reformers scored the first falT Poi ! years the saloon women nad neii1 full