Weekly journal-miner., 1916-04-26
VERDE EXTENSION PLANS
 ERECTION OF SHELTER
Young Ranch Bought For Site of Re- duction Works; Jerome May Be
 A Second Butte.


 900 pounds a month, the United Yer de Extension Company is planning to build its own reduction plant.
 It is generally understood here that the United Verde Extension has al ready closed a deal for L. L. Young's splendid apple ranch, mile north of Clarkdale, and will utilize the land as site for its smelter. The loca- tiol is an ideal one. lying right be- tween the Verde river and the Verde Valley railroad. The transportation and water questions offer no prob lems.
 Officials of the U. V. E. company, while refusing to confirm the story that the Young ranch has been pur- chased, admit that the mine must have a smelter of its own. They say that they have the biggest body of high grade copper ore in the world and that to continue to ship the ore to Douglas for treatment would be folly. | Besides, it is practically impossible to find outside smelter capacity to take care of the increased ore output that is being planned for.
 In March daily shipments from the U. V. E. to Douglas averaged l5O tons. The total return was, in round figures, S500,000, and the expense was about $2OOOO.
 April shipments will average POO tons a day. The ore averages 20 per cent copper.
 Four-hfths of this ore comes from development work being done on the i l ,4OO-foot level. in the way of drifts, crosscuts and raises. The other fifth is stopped from the l 200.
 Operations are greatly hampered by ! the lack of air. Only lS0 men arc now being used, though there is room for many more The property is equipped only with two small com ! pressors but a compressor with a ca 1 pacity of l,5OO cubic feet has been or dered and will soon be on the ground. | If it is deemed advisable, the output [ can then be doubled.
 When the new compressor Is m place winzc will be started in the south drift, 1000 feet from the main shaft, and sunk to the l,600-foot level i No one who has ever seen that ore body on the l.400 doubts that it con tinucs on down to untold depths.
 The real truth about that orc body | has never been told. It is known. however. that there IS 60-foot streak l that averages 10 per cent copper. while the general average is around 20 ! per cent. The U. " E. officials them | selves do not know how wide the [ ore is.
 Adjoining the U. V. Extension is | the Jerome Verde. Under a contract which has been in force about three weeks, the U. V. E. people, from their | own workings, are doing l50 feet of development work monthly in Jerome Verde ground.
 United Verde.
 Although it Is not being operated , nearly to its full capacity, the United | Verde smclter is now treating 2,5O0 tons of ore day. All but l50 tons of this comes from the United Verde . mine Fifty tons of silicious ore is received daily from the Commercial mine, in Copper Basin, near Prescott, and 100 tons. also silicious, comes from, tnc I udIo,,- mine
 The daily output of copper from this tonnage is a little over 100000 pounds. The smeltcr's monthly pro ! duction IS over 5.0O0000 pounds. In September this will be increased to (. .500.0O0, and in November to 5000 i OGO.
 This will not be accomplished by adding to the present equipment for the smclter. for it is already equipped ! to handle vastly greater tonnage. but by increasing the ore production of the United Verde mine. A crush ! ing plant is now being constructed at the mouth Of the tunnel that enters the mine on the l,COG-foot level, and | VIII DC COiiplClCu lh JuiS- us pii | mary purpose is to supply 1000 tons of fines" daily for the rcvcrberator- ics, but practically all the orc mined , will pass through the crusher.
 Much of the increased ore proluc- ton will come from No. , shaft. which | has been sunk SOO feet from the 1000 ! foot tunnel level This shaft is the deepest working in the mine. Ar have just been made 10 have il concreted. When this is done an electric hoist, with q capacity oi i 5000 feet will be placed at this shaft. | A new electric hoist has been ordered 1 to replace the old one at No. shas.
 The United Verde Company now has 1900 men on its payroll This ! force will be increased about 500 dur ing the Summer A contract for the | construction of 40 new houses in | Clarkdale is to be let by the company . in a few days
 Two Strikes.
 Two new strikes have added to the |