Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-01
Old Timers in Northern Coun- ty Say That Present Mining Boom Was Not Approxi- mated During Old Days.
VERDE FIX. THE BIG
 PACE SETTER OF ALL
Development in All Parts of County Tend to Increase Confidence in General Min eralized Section of North.
(By William P. De WOlO

PRESCOTT. Ariz. Sept 30--Prog- ress and prosperity. working in uni son as close as a miner and his sin gle-jack. are on the job in Yavapai county and vicinity. Through their agency the county's mining industry has increased s12,OO0.OOO in value in single year. as is shown by the county assessors figures. and has been placed on a copper-bOttomed gold-bound and silver-riveted base old Hassayampa men who have lived in this country since the day of the Burnt Ranch massacre. or before. say there has never been a time when mining was so general and prosperous as now; not excepting the period when the Peck. Nelson. Lincoln. Congress. Gladstone. McCabe. Crown King. Har- qua Hala Bonanza. Tip Top. Tuscum- bia and other mines of the past were at the zenith of production and were adding millions of dollars worth of gold and silver bullion to the cOuntrys precious metal wealth
 The future possibilities of the Yer de copper belt may be gauged by the results that attend operations in the United Verde Extension Qittle Daisy) mine. The log of this justly famous copper mine is a daily record of one of the most remarkable achievements in the annals of mining Less than two years ago a generally discredited prospect. it is today one of the worlds richest and most remarkable mines. rivaling in magnitude its plu- tocratic neiShbor. the great United Verde mine-with a production record of s16O0OO.OOO worth of copper ore and a dividend record of $40. 1000 900. Within a twelvemonth the United Verde Extension has accumulated a cash reserve of approximately s2.O00.- 900. has paid a dividend of 90 cents per share. has earned it's original cap italizatiOn about two and One-half times over. has disclosed a body of ore carrying as high as 50 percent copper and is shipping ore having a general average of 9 percent copper.
 Jerome. the Hub Of District
 The United Verde and United Verde Extension mines are both located in the camp of Jerome. the latter being the hub and center of the most ex- tended campaign of mining work in Arizona. To further foster and ad- vance this work. men prominent in the states mining and financial sf- fairs are preparing to build a railroad from Clarkdale-site of the United Verde company's smelter-tO Mesa The proposed road will connect a very rich mineral and agricultural country with either the Arizona East ern or the proposed TuscOn. Phoenix and Tidewater railway. Clarkdale has been selected as the northern terminus of the line and will be con- nected with Jerome by branch line seven miles long. Another branch. five miles long. will connect with the proposed shelter of the United Verde Extension company. James Douglas.  to whose faith and energy the devel- opment of the United Verde Exten- sion bonanza is chiefly due. is presi- dent of the proposed new railroad. The latter. known as the Arizona Ex- tension railroad. is capitalized for S4.00O. 900.
 A body of carbonate ore carrying as high as 30 percent copper to the ton was encountered last week in the southwest crosscut in the Pittsburg- been crosscut breadth of IS feet without disclosing the footwall The strike is one of promising pOssibili-
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