Weekly journal-miner., 1909-09-01
JEROME OUTLOOK
 IS MUCH BETTER
(Jerome Copper Belt.l


 unrest to one of inspiration and eff
 fort. Market prices have improved
 greatly. Good crops for the farmers
 increasing traffic the talk of increased
 dividend payments, which until re-
 gently Have been only rumors, are now almost certainty, all tending to encourage trade and bring, greater activity. Copper securities arei con spieuOusly active and yet the red metal is at a low price. The future is extremely bright.
 Mining has a place in the front ranks at this time, and the Jerome district is awakening, taking on new enthusiasm. Old companies are now negotiating with a view to again start development on their properties, and will do deep shaft exploration. The great copper deposits which are being developed together with the strides made in the smelting field, wherein competition has been aroused, new camps opening up and adding to the wealth of the world, and though the depression was felt keenly the mining industry was not downed by any means. The low mining costs and the improved milling facilities are | all born, more or less, from hard times, from necessity to make every cent saved possible dividend. Great prosperity leads rather to earelessness than to the thrift which will make possible a dividend in times of lesser fortune. Taken all in all, with the new feeling of confidence, the boun- tiful supply of nature, and improved methods, the future looks very bright along all industries.
 O. B. Stanton, of Philadelphia, and a large stOekholder in the Hull Cop per company, arrived here on Tues day, and in company with General Manager Hull visited the Cleopatra and Hull copper property on Wednes day morning, spending the entire fore noon within the mine and about the shelter. MT. Stanton expressed great satisfaction as to the manner in which the work within the mine was being done, and has great faith in both properties as future producers of wealth. He visited the different workings in the Cleopatra and viewed the large ore bodies which are ex- posed, and from which the fine look ! ing ore piled at the shelter sight is 1 being taken. MT. Stanton regretted I that he had not visited our busy little | burg Oftener, and will be here more frequently in future. Manager Hull ] and this gentleman passed on through . the tunnel and on to the Hull Cop per eOmpany's holdings. Four men were at work in the drift, and the ore is showing up in fine shape, being of a soft formation with stringers of good looking sulphides of copper run ming through it. In fact the eOndi- ton is most favorable for opening up a body of high-grade ore at any time Mir. Stanton left for Los Angeles via Prescott yesterday afternoon, and ex poets to return here before going east.
 The obstruent pipe which slipped from its fastenings and fell to with in a short distance of the bottom of the shaft has been raised to the sur face on the Arkansas & Arizona, the drill hole washed and preparations are now being made to go on with the drilling. The company has an ex- cellent corps of diamond drill men in charge and Mir. Lynch, who is well up in mining work, makes a daily visit to the property and, with his watehful eye, attends to all minor details of the work.
 The arrival of Captain Adams in Jerome two weeks ago was the sig nal which announced the preparation of the Meseal Copper company for the of work at the property. $ The work will be begun immediately and will continue without abatement The exact plans of the management as to the manner of development have ' not as yet been disclosed. The work | already done has shown it to be a | very promising property, and one on r which the management is willing to a invest considerable. A tunnel has L il been run on the property to a con il distance and encountered il -ery rich pockets of copper sulphides r turing the entire distance The com W ,any has plenty of the real money h Or work. Their financial standing is Ii he best, and with such men as W. C. b 'Iiller at the Jerome end and Captain W Adams and J. E. Leeper and other