El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-19
j. !. EX. PLANS
ANOTHER SHAT 7
Engineer Burch and Direc-
tor Picrell Visit Prop
erty; Sinking Wine.

jerome, Ariz., July 19.-Numerous
! Improvements. one OF them new
| shaft. are being planned at the United
I Verde Extension mine. H Kenyon
3 Burch. the engineer under whose di-
rection the great Inspiration mill al
Miami was constructed, spent several
! days in the camp recently for the pur-
pose OF advising regarding the plac-
I ing Of the improvements He tenta-
lively selected a site for the proposed
new shaft some distance south of the
Edith shaft. which is now the main
working While here he also looked
over the sites that are under consid-
Grafton for the new smelter the United
erde Extension company expects 10
build.
Mai. PiekreH Makes Visit.
Maj. " s. Pickrell, managing direc-
Tor OF the company. came with Mr.
Burch, VINO is also q director but had
never before visited Jerome. MAJ
flcKreI admitted that an important
increase IN production was contem-
plated The hosting facilities at the
Edith shaft which opened the phe-
nomenal body of high grade copper
ore mat started the Jerome boom. are
10 De enlarged Much of the hosting
VIII be done through the new shaft
when it ST completed.
Resume Sinking of Wine.
Inc sinking of the winze that has
Deen started approximately 1000 feet
south OF the Edith shaft, for the pur-
pose OF proving the ore to a depth OF
at least geo feet below the 1900 foot
1enel, VIII be under way once more
within week The Wine was SUNK
70. depth OF only 20 feet before a
heavy inflow Of water compelled a
cessation of operations. Now a heavy
sinking pump, with capacity Of 25O9
gallons a minute, is being installed al
the collar of the Wine. ,
Shipping 800 Tons. Daily
Daily shipments from the Extension
70 the Copper Queen smelter. at Doug |
las, now averages 800 tons The aver
age copper content is from Is to 90 |
per cent Recently a number of car
loads OF 40 per cent ore have been
shipped.
Ark. d Ariz. Resumes Unwaterinr
opera tons have leen resumed at the |
Arkansas q Arizona, just north of Je-
rome Water is being pumped out of 1
the main smart, which Is down 1910 /
reef and was filled almost to the 500
loot level When the shaft is drv the I
Goodrich-Lockhart people, of New York
viii have Halstead Lindsay and some l
otner engineer examine the property
and map out plan of further dex-aI-
opment It IS generally believed tba-
they VIII recommend a crosscut east
ward INTO North Verde ground. which
the same syndicate controls. The A. &
4 smart never opened commercial or !
W H Gallaghan. formerly with the
Sobriza Mining company, at johnson.
Cocnlse county, is now superintendent !
OF the A & 4.
Makes First Geological ReDorf
r A ProvOt, consulting engineer of
the United Verde Extension comDanv. |
has Just completed the first and only
geological report of the Je
rome district that was ever drawn
though Mr. Provot makes no Dredic-
tons, it is evident from the tone Of
MS treatise that he does not believe
the United Verde and United Verde
this section
Hampton StODe Fire SmOuIders
me old fire which has been burning
or nearly a quarter of a century i'm / /
he Hampton stope Of the United Verde