Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-05
ACCOMMODATION IN JEROME AT
 PREMIUM
Northern Mining Town Pack ed and damned With For tune Seekers From Every Part of the Country.

JEROME, Nov. 4. - How people sleep in Jerome is one of the eternal mysteries. Sometimes they don't.
 Almost every night people put in their sleeping hours tramping over the road between Jerome and Clark dale, five miles away, down in the Verde valley, just to keep warm.
 For both Jerome and Clarkdale are damned, crammed, congested, over- flowing with people brought here by ever enjoyed by any other copper camp.
 Every train that comes in has sev- eral extra coaches attached, and the passengers even stand up in box cars. The buses that meet the trains at the stations are wholly inadequate. In Clarkdale this does not mean so much but the Jerome station is half mile from the town over steep, serpentine mountain trails that often astound and alarm the newcomer. Many a future Verde district millionaire will be able to say in truth that he hiked into Jerome. If he tells the whole truth he will add that it was because he was unable to get seat in a bus.
 Arrived in the town. the new arri- vals make for the hotels first of all. Every hotel has its corridors filled with cots-the regulation price of r cot is s1 night-but every hotel clerk turns away scores every even- ing
 Then they scatter over the town, begging piteously at every door to be taken in. Many of the fortunate and superior beings who own or rent hous es have put up signs announcing that they have no rooms for rent, but of ten these are ineffective in keeping away the applicants
 There is one woman with a house away at the south end of town who rents a room at s250 a night, exclu- sively to transients. She never ad- vertises, never even hangs out a room for rent" sign, but every night her room is taken. She knows that some searcher for accommodations will find her place and ask for room even if it is practically out of town and not on public road.
 It is hard for outsiders to realize the, conditions in Jerome. They may read or be told that it is impossible to buy or rent a house in Jerome but they come blithely on, confident that such statements are merely harmless congregations and that they can find the accommodations they seek as soon as they show the color of their coin. But when they arrive they find that their usually loquacious money is si- lent as far as obtaining house is concerned.
 A few days ago an electrician mot ored over from Los Angeles with his family. to go to work at one of the Jerome mines. He had Rade no ar engagements for house, supposing that if the mining company did not supply him with quarters he could
 
 out any trouble. But the company houses were all filled and the town is always more than full. The Ange- lenos camped out few nights in their car and then one of the shift bosses at the mine cleaned out his rabbit house for them. The bunnies were turned out in the cold and the electri- clan, Mrs. Electrician and the chil- dren moved in.
 To live in a rented house is far from safe; rents are raised almost every month and one never knows when his landlord will succumb to the importunities of some would-be-pur- chaser and accept a price which would have seemed unreasonable, ex- orbitant and impossible few months ago.
 The local newspaper has adopted a rule not to accept any advertising from persons seeking houses or rooms. for under the circumstances it is impossible for the advertise ments to bring any result Newcom- CTS sometimes think that they can obtain relief by advertising but to ad- vertise for something that is not to be had is useless.
 The manager of the local "opera house" has bought 40 cots, with a few quilts and blankets, and placed them in his auditorium. Every few nights there is a show. Then the cots are moved into the property room and
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