Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-25
JEROME MINES ARE ON HE
 BOOM
Not Only the Big 0neSp But Several Smaller Properties Are Making Fine Showing of Ore Bodies,
(Jerome News.)

(Jerome News.)
 During nearly thirteen years of eX- istence the Jerome Mining News has never, in any one of its G72 week. ly issues been able to make known to the world the good news that a deposit of pay, and what now has every indication of being a per manent body of ore, had been struck in the Jerome Copper Mining District, excepting, of course, those owned by the United Verde Copper company and the Copper Chief Mining con- pany both of which companies had large pay bodies of ore blocked out some years before the first issue of the News. But development of the right kind is bringing out the fact that the district has other pay ore bodies than those owned by the com panies mentioned above. This has been demonstrated during the past month by the diamond drill on the HarTyhousen, and by shaft work on the Little Daisy claim, one of the claims owned by the United Verde Extension Copper company. The strike on the Little Daisy is undoubt- edly the most important and is deyel- oping into one of the largest, ever made not only in the Jerome district. but in the Southwest. On the Sth of this month the shaft entered a cap ping in which there was a good deal of copper. The deeper this capping was penetrated the more mineral was encountered, and a few feet of work carried it into virtually solid "black" copper. and. as Manager Fisher re- marked to News representative "every bucketfull hoisted since that time is pay dirt" IL will, of course, be some months before the size of the ore body can be demonstrated, as it is the intention of the company to con tinue the shaft, which is now down over 400 feet, to a depth of perhaps | 1000 feet, before drifting and cross cutting is started. The strike in the Little Daisy is of especial interest to the stockholders in the Verde Grande, I Arkansas and Arizona, the Hull, and Jerome Mines Development compan- ! ies, all of which properties, like the | Little Daisy, are extensions of the i United Verde mine, and also to the owners of stock in the Jerome Verde 1 Copper company, as that company s l group Ol CldlLlS duyJIIS Ih5 L-LNtAC 1 Daisy group. With the Little Daisy
 claim the United Verde Extension 1 company owns the March. COnglOmer- ate. Iron Carbonate and Bitter Creek
 claims The Little Daisy was acquir-
 ed by purchase from J. J. Fisher it's locator, the other claims having been taken over from G. W. Hull in eX change for the 1888 and other neigh.
 boring claims. The L. V. Extension company is a close corporation, con- l tTOIled by New York and Boston peo pie. Locally there is less than 3OC shares of the stock owned. Wednes day the Jerome Mines Development
 company stopped all diamond dril!
 work. and on the same day SupeTiL
 tendent Campbell started a force Ot
 men at work sinking a shaft 6Kl4 il dimensions, which will include tAt compartments and a man-hole. It was demonstrated with the diamond GIii
 that the company has pay ore bodies
 President J. J. Shaw of t!N Mazat gal Copper company returned home
 Wednesday, after a trip O. ICspec for
 to his cOmpany's properties. MT
 Shaw was seen by d News repI csgnt 1 , tive, to whom he gave the following
 regarding the progress of develop ment or Lat promising prUpeIy Since MalCh 1st the company na!
 located 2t claims in addition to tn
 16 acqmred by purchase anJ has hCi.'
 the necessary location wOrK as wei as having The group pr E:erY sur veyed by deputy minera. surveyor We have practically rebuilt 3 |: miles of road and built an additiona
 miles of new road before the ma
 chinery could be hauled to the mine We have erected a two-strory board
 ing house, two bunk houses, barr l, , and blacksmith shop, hauling the neC essary lumber twenty miles.
 we have driven 2S5 feet of tur ! nel on the Last Chance claim cutting last week, ledge ten feet wide be tween well defined walls and assayin ' low values in copper The ground i , now much easier and rapid progres , will be made toward a splendid eoI i per cropping on the surface, 210 fee !. vertically above the tunnel and 8 . feet further south, and from tha | point the tunnel will gain foot flo a foot in depth.
 T "On the Bullfrog claim the .ynne F has advanced 235 feet. This is
 crosscut tunnel and the first objectiv
 lis large cropping at distance c
 about 400 feet. With length C
 1000 feet this tunnel will give 1,14 ) feet in depth. The formation has bee g a close grained slate and quartzitI | and the compressor now on th y ground is installed at this tunne > The tunnel has already cut thre' F. small veins of ore from 6 to 10 inche | wide and assaying from to 10 pc
 cent copper values, and in each il B. stance a fine flow of water was el
 Icountered.
 we have been delayed by late, an . in some cases incomplete, delivery , ,f material. However. all the prelim k nary work has been done and fro D. now on the hammer and machir It drills will tell the story of develo i ment, and absolute confidence is fe 1t in the result by the management ,e workmen and every visitor to u Ie property
 hl The difficulties of developing