Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-20
JEROME VERDE IS IN GOOD
 SHAPE
Big Mines Are in Excellent Con- dition in Spite of Present Temporary Slump in Metal and Stocks
(Jerome News.)

| (Jerome News.)
 1 The past week in the Jerome Yer ! de district has been a most interest 1 ing one made so by almost every | property under development along 1 the copper belt reporting the en- l countering of more or less ore, many 1 of the strikes being of such magui- | tude as to have the appearance of l large and rich bodies of ore. With one exception, that of the Verde | Grande. which has been tied up dur l ing the past few days on account of strike inaugurated Thursday morn l sng by the employees, all of the com | panies have been rushing work. The | trouble at the Verde GTande was | caused by the discharge of one of ] the men by the foreman, There was no other dissatisfaction, and there is | now every indication that the trOu- l ble will be satisfactorily adjusted, and that the plant will be in full Op- eratiOn Monday morning. As depth | is attained on this more than prom ! ising property, more prominent be- come the indications that it will de- yelop into a great producer with nee ] essary work, and the company has
 ample funds with which to work.
 | At the Boston Jerome, a neighbor of | the Verde Grande on the southwest,
 Superintendent Larsen has the shaft down about 50 feet. The showing of mineral continues with depth. Many oE the experienced miners in the dis 1 trict express much confidence in this
 mine.
 The most talked of event in the Je- rome mining world during the past l week was the strike of S25 ore in the l shaft on the Little Daisy claim, one of the United Verde Extension com
 pany's group, located on the southeast | lin of the United Verde mine. The 1 ore was encountered below the 600 l foot point, and the full shaft was sunk | through a 15 foot body of it when a 1 difference formation was encountered. | The new formation carries mineral, | but as to its values in the precious
 metals it has not as yet been tested
 The values in the 15 foot body are in
 gold and silver, the gold largely pre- | dominating. From this UUJy of ore | the copper values have undoubtedly been carried away by water. The l ground now being sunk through by | this shaft has every indication of be 1 ing in place, which fact increases the i importance of the new strike. Super 1 intendent Jas. Harrison and Foreman
 Ed. Wicks are naturally much elated over the discovery.
 On top of the strike in the Little l Daisy comes the authenticated news 1 of a strike in the drift south from the | 45O foot level in the 1888 shaft on the l Hull Copper cOmpanys group. This ! gh int at 2
 tance of about $50 feet from the shaft.
 The ore is high grade, and fills the
 face of the drift. It will take some 1 days to demonstrate it's extent. The | strikes in the U. V. Extension and the | Hull, are of great importance to the | district and more especially to the 4cannaDiaS- owning nrnnertieS which ] lay along the lines Of the United l Verde Copper company's group. Such companies as the Verde Grande, the Harryhousen, Arkansas & Arizona, l North Verde, and others located near l the U. ", as the discovery of ore in ] these properties demonstrates beyond | doubt that the big mine has not all | of the ore within it's boundaries.
 { Nine feet of ore has been exposed { in a drift from the shaft on the Black | Hills group, at a depth of 630 feet. Is the good news that was told to the | News by Superintendent Ed Bevin, and when Mir. Beyen tells you that l they have exposed a body of ore of
 any given size and quality you can | rely upon it as being the truth. The i News has always found him to be the
 most conservative mining man in the | district. This strike means much to | the district immediately south of Je- rome, also the starting up again of the Black Hills, which has been closed
 up for several weeks. The ore Is high | grade, and the indications are that the
 body is a large one, but it will, of
 course, require some work to prove this. All of Jerome will share the joy
 of Thomas Bros. 6 Metcalf in this dis
 covery in the Black Hills group, as
 they have to date brought many thou sand of dollars into the district for
 development purposes. The same peo-
 pie control the Mingus Mountain prop
 erty, which has been closed down for
 some time, but which, so Mir. W. w.
 Thomas informs the News, will start
 up again in few days.
 Work on the Arkansas & Arizona l is being pushed along as rapidly as
 usual. and they hope to do better work | this month than last. There are in
 dications that the formation in the
 shaft is changing, but nothing definite i has occurred to make this positive. l The shaft is still in a gravel all of
 which carries gold values. It is though by some that when the shaft
 reaches the bed rock, placer gold de-
 posits will be struck that may prove
 very rich. In regards to just such 1 formations as the A. & A is now
 going through, textbook on pros | pecting says:
 "Placers may become deep by sue.
 cessive deposits of material. and final
 ly the river which formed them may be diverted from it's course. or entirely
 lost by changes in the elevation of ] the continent, or by lava flows in the
 upper portion of it's course. Such ]. placer deposits may subsequently be
 cut by modern rivers, and they will
 then form bench or hill placers or dig
 gings. In some cases the deposits is from 400 to 800 feet in thickness. the
 upper portions of it being as a rule