Arizona republican., 1916-12-04
TIE NEW DESTINY
 OF JEROME DISTRICT
BY ROBERT E. CONNOLLY 'ublicity Manager San Francisco
 Stock Exchange.


 From the standpoint of an outsider. hose knowledge of copper camps is mited to his residence of forty eight hours. the facts and figures concerning the Jerome districts are as deceptive as the estimated and actual distance between Jerome and the rose tinted cliffs beyond Clark dale It appears to be a matter of twelve or fourteen miles. but the air he measurement exceeds sixty. So
 is with regard to JerOme-past. ] present and future. From California
 has appeared remote. unconnected
 +h those mining affairs which have up a good portion of California s -irring history. But Jerome possesses an the qualifications and attributes that have spelled success elsewhere on the Pacific coast, and among its population l have counted men who journey to the far places of the earth for the pure love of discovery and participatlo which there is no adventure more productive of the Joy of living. Set down in any part of California. or in Nevada. Jerome would long ago have numbered it's population into the tens of thousands But copper is a new name to conjure 2 with in California. Pioneer pros pectors and even the more intelligent mining operators who are unrestricted by lack of capital are stubborn in their reluctance to recognize new is- sues new localities and new oppor- tunities. over the trails blazed long ago they travel. seeking the last hid den ore deposit in a camp that has proven itself, and sometimes over looking the broader and more logical opportunity in another direction. In nQ pd that Seattle and some of the cities of the northwest reaped the richest harvests in the Klondike and in Nome. while other sections of the Pacific coast participated in the profits to a much smaller extent
 But Californiai-and especially north ern California-has builded a vast em- pire whose foundations rest on the mining industry. From the days of the COmstock there has been no great development of consequence on the Pacific coast that was not assisted generously andi wisely by California capital and California effort. A ma iority of the business men of San Francisco are today investors in min ing securities of one sort or another and many of them are the descend ants of the pioneers who played the game as Jerome operators are playing 1t today.-althoYe against odds that were vastly greater.
 That San Francisco and northern California have mot given earlier evi- dence of recognition of this' remark. able activity in the Jerome district IS not surprising For months the at tention of our larger investors has leen directed towards the tremendous markets in the east. Until recently. the San Francisco stock. exchange. which has been the clearing house of the Pacific coast for over half a century had never dealt in cop per issue, and its patrons and the clients of the various brokers were not, and are not today, as familiar with copper properties and copper stocks as they might have been, for their own profit. And this, notwith- eanding that California has some valuable copper mines and copper prospects within it's own borders and some figures dealing with copper out pct that probably would astonish the residents of Jerome as much as their totals and estimates have staggered me
 Two days have sufficed to convince me that the Jerome district is going 10 furnish an avenue for investment that California has been expecting and desiring for many months. 1 do not believe that the opportunity comes too late. Investors through the me dium of the San Francisco stock ex- change, whether they be new or old, are perhaps as discriminatory as those of any community in the country. and realize the value of permanency and sAiditv. both of which virtues the Jerome district would appear to possess.
 For that reason, and for the addi- tlonal reason that the country is be- ginning to be more explicit in the eastern speculative markets, the time for reciprocal effort between San Francisco and Jerome is now. The record that Jerome operators and Jerome companies have made without assistance; the extensive exploitation work that has been accomplished in every direction, and the undisputed sincerity of the claims that have been put forward during the past few months have not gone without rec ognition. The field in. northern, Cali fornia and Nevada has been prepared for the seed. The response awaits. It remains only to furnish the education that will enable each investor to make his own selection, and this may be accomplished in the routine manner with which all are familiar. It mat ters not what fluctuations in the shares market may occur. nor. what individual reyeTses: may .be encoant-. {.