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The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21


Afar winds the Verde, an emerald
strip among opals. blues, purples,
whites and soft browns. Near at
hand is mighty Mingus mountain,
covered with pines amid which great
snowbanks even yet glisten in the
sunlight.
Though Jerome was laid out in
haphazard fashion-in the early days
each man built his house facing in
any direction he pleased-the town
is not unattractive. 1t has some
splendid residences and business
blocks that would do credit to any
city. Most of the vegetation in the
immediate vicinity was killed years
ago by the smoke from the old
smelter above Jerome, and the hill
sides have a barren aspect. But
Jerome does not see the lack of
verdure. To her the green of a lime
carbonate outcrop is far more beauti-
full than the green of the Yavapai
pines.
Town With a Plan
Clarkdale was built upon plan
and is one of the most attractive
little cities in the west. It was
planned when the United Verde COM
pany decided to build it's smelter
there. The superintendents. foremen
and office men of the ssmelter and
Verde Valley railroad live in neat,
modern brick cottages. The furnace
men and other employees live in less
pretentious dwellings, but dwellings
kept just as scrupulously clean as the
finest in the place.
are today. Now for little history,
a little history to show that floating
legitimate copper proposition in
the Jerome district was not always
the easy matter that it is now.
The original big mine of the Jer-
ONE district is the United Verde.
There are those who claim that the
Extension is bigger than the U. w.,
but this has not been proved and in
any general account of the district
the Clark property must come first.
McClintock, in his History of Ari-
zona, says of the United Verde:
Some History
"The United Verde at Jerome gen.
orally is considered the richest cop
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21

and is also expecting tremendous
influx of new residents. If the
United Verde Extension decides to
build it's smelter just above Clark
dale, as it may do, another thriving
town will grow up there. Jerome
and Clarkdale will no longer be
spoken of as the twin cities
there will be triplets.
Jerome is the mining town and
Clarkdale is the smelter town. Jer-
ONE is perched up on the east side
of the Black Hills amid scenery as
beautiful as can be found anywhere
in the world. The mighty San Fran
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21

the latest dope" and compute his
winnings.
The night that 1 arrived in Jerome
a poor old woman wearing mere rem
nants of shoes and nondescript skirt
and hugging a faded black shawl
about her shoulders to ward off the
chill, penetrating mountain breeze
halted a moment in front of one OF
the boards. She peered at the fig
ures, then leapt into the air and
brought her hands together with a
resounding smack. "Hooray!" she
shouted.
caught up with. her as she was
hurrying down the street How much
today?" I asked. MADE a hundred!'
she shrilled. Guess 1 won't be
washin clothes long,"
Sure, wages are good" replied q
quiet young meat-cutter when asked
how he was doing in Jerome "But
make more than my wages every
month buying and selling stocks
When something begins to boom
buy. It's easy to win now for every
thing is going up"
"Little Daisy
Little Daisy" is the name one
hears most frequently on the streets
of Jerome, for that is the name by
which the U. V. Extension is COM
monty known. It was the Little
Daisy before James S. Douglas ac-
quired control of the property thai
attracted the eyes of the investing
world to Jerome, and to Jerome it is
still the Daisy.
"I could have bought Daisy at fifty
cents two years ago. one hears a
hundred times a day. The remark
lis always made in regretful, sorrow
full tone, for U. v. Extension is to-
day selling for more than $25 share
and predictions are freely made thai
it will go to $50.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21
U. v. EXTENSION STARTED IT
AND NOW WHOLE WORLD
ScRAMBLES FOR JEROME
SHARES
(BY ERNEST DoUGLAs)

At a cost of $4,000 the United
Verde Extension Mining company
marketed 100000 worth of copper
ore last month
The United Verde Extension has the
biggest body of high grade copper ore
in the world.
All over the vast Jerome district
there are surface showings every bit
as encouraging as those on U. v.
Extension ground. 1t has already been
proved that many of them go far be-
low the surface.
These are only a few of the reasons
why Jerome is enjoying the biggest,
healthiest boom ever experienced by
an Arizona mining camp.
Jerome is magic word in the
copper share market today. Any
thing with that name attached to it
is gobbled up eagerly by investors
who know that the demand for cop
per is going to increase and increase
and increase whether the war in Eu
rope continues or not.
Jerome is copper riveted to pros
perity.
The world wants copper, copper,
copper. Jerome has copper, copper,
copper-also gold and silver.
Jerome was prosperous when she
had only the United Verde mine and
thought that there wasn't any other
copper in the district worth men
tioning. But now she has walked up
to the fact that the Jerome mineral
belt, which seams the Black Hills
region score of miles, is one great
deposit of copper.
Finding copper around Jerome is
the easiest thing in the world. The
only wonder is that somebody did
not before realize that here is the
greatest undeveloped copper field on
the face of the earth.
Reasons Why
With the United Verde increasing
the output of its smelter from 5,OOO.-
900 to 100000 pounds a month and
adding 500 men to its payroll; with
the United Verde Extension installing
an air compressor which may be util-
lied to double its already phenomenal
output; with the United Verde Ex-
tension laying plans for the erection
of it's own smelter; with the Copper
Chief not only turning out gold and
silver bullion in immense quantities
but also entering the -produc-
ing class; with the Dundee-Arizona
opening a blind ledge that averages
25 per cent copper; with the Calumet
& Jerome in the hands of the power
full Shattuck company; with the Jer-
ONE Verde, North Verde, Arkansas &
Arizona and dozen other big mines
entering the active list-with all this
is it any wonder that Jerome. to use
an expressive if inelegant phrase, feel
that she has the world by the tail
with downhill pull?
Jerome isn't any typical boom
camp. She wouldn't be a typical
boom camp Of the old days even if
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21
WHAT I!AgH||AAT BROUGHT ON THE BOOM
AND WHY It WILL ONT|NUE

the sale of liquor were allowed-and
Jerome is without doubt the dryest
mining town in Arizona.
Jerome is feverishiy excited but at
the same time is perfectly sane. She
knows that her boom has solid rea-
sons behind it, even if it was long
delayed. Nobody has lost his head.
The citizens of Jerome are determined
that her prosperity shall not be made
the foundation for stock market ex-
ploitation that will injure her repu-
tation in the eyes of the world. No
camp in the world has better repu-
tation than Jerome. She is proud
and jealous of that reputation.
1 shudder to think what will hap
pen the first person who tries to
float wildcat proposition in Jerome.
No one who knows the temper of her
people will ever attempt anything so
foolhardy. Jerome is community
of people who know mining. Ledges,
contacts, dips, dikes, zones, are not
mere names to them. They can't
be fooled and they do not intend that
Jeromes name and reputation shall
be used to fool anyone who is not
SO mining wise as they.
No Demonstrated Failure
To be sure, much money has been
spent in developing properties that
did not prove commercially profitable,
but the money has been spent hon
estly. Jerome has been singularly
free from dishonest exploitation. But
even the mines referred to are by
no means failures. Experts are of
the opinion that deep development
may make all of them big producers
of the red metal for which the world
is eager to pay 20 cents a pound.
Yes, Jerome can be spoken of as
the camp without failure.
There is a municipal campaign on
in Jerome now but visitor would
never know it if he did not see the
placards nailed to the telephone poles.
Nobody talks about city, state or ma
tional politics. Even the European
war and the Mexican situation in
terest Jerome chiefly because Of their
possible effect upon the copper mar
ket.
Everyone is talking stocks.
If there is anyone in Jerome or
Clarkdale who does not own stock in
the United Verde Extension, the Jer-
ONE Verde, Arkansas & Arizona,
Three Medal, Green Monster, Dundee
Arizona, Venture Hill, Grand Island,
or some of the other companies that
have leapt into prominence, he is a
lost, forlorn and scorned soul, a
mere hanger-on in the eager groups
that congregate on the streets, in the
pool halls and hotel lobbies to dis
cuss the newest development, the
latest rumor, the last killing"
Watching the stock quotation
boards is the principal indoor and
outdoor sport in the twin cities by
the Verde. The first thing the min
ers and smeltermen do when they
get off shift is to hurry away to
learn of the latest Quotations in the
stock market. Fortunate is the Of
flee clerk who can slip away for a
few minutes now and then to obtain
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21

on 500 more men this summer, the
Jerome Verde, Green Monster and
half a dozen others now inactive are
soon to begin development, the prob
lem becomes more serious every min
ute.
Today the population of Jerome is,
roughly speaking, $500 souls. Those
who are on the inside and know
whereof they speak are convinced
that this will be doubled by the
first day of October. Clarkdale,
seven miles away down the lovely
Verde valley, has about $500 people
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-21

utmost capacity. The boom has
brought in investors, mining experts
and just plain miners from all parts
of the world, 1t is almost impossible
to get a room at the hotels, They
do say that some cots work two
shifts, Jerome is poor place for
one who is not willing to put up with
few discomforts and, perhaps, bunk
with perfect stranger,
Every day the tide increases. For
one man who leaves Jerome, two
come in. The housing problem is
indeed becoming serious one. And
as the United Verde Is going to put
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
March of Expedition
Expected to Allay Hostility
Of MexiCanS.
EMBARGO MAY FORCE
CARRANZA TO YIELD
Question of Use of Railroads May Become
Vital Issue of Negotiations with Advent
of the Rainy Season.

Washington May 12.-The fact that the Pershing expe-
don despite failure of the FL Paso conference to reach
agreement actually moving toward the border regarded
here as a sure sign that intervention will be avoided
The War Department announced to-day that General
Pershng was gradually withdrawing his forces from the ad
vanced positions which have extended about 400 miles into
Mexico and soon would his base from Namqupa to CO.
lonia Dublan 100 miles from the border.
Pending new orders the President it plain at the
War Department that General Pershngs expedition would
main in Mexico watching developments beyond the border
Meanwhile mobilization of national guardsmen from the bor
der states and of additional regulars to strengthen the border
patrol at points along the 800e stretch not protected by
the expedition continues.
Should raidng be renewed additional state troops will be
called out for border duty and wherever the bandits leave
hot trail the army will hesitate pursue them into Mexico
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
MANHOLE LID BLOWS
BUSTLE OFF BUSINESS
But Only Temporarily-Jersey
CITY Routine Soon Resumed.

Business hustled in its usual manner
in the neighborhood of n Montgomery
Street, Jersey City, at noon yesterday.
On the ground floor clerks in the Union
Trust Company satisfied the wants of
customers lined up at every window
On the top floor legal machinery was
IN action in the New Jersey Chancery
Court In a hat-cleaning establish
mont next to the bank two Greeks were
irving to make last years straw hats
look like new.
Suddenly there was rumble foi-
lowed by a cannon-like explosion. I'm
mediately the street was filed with
frightened persons, all with visions OF
a bomb. For five minutes the legal
machinery came TO full stop and the
hank emptied itself OF customers and
clerks. Then the excitement abated
and business resumed its hustle.
Gas had exploded in manho.e III
the street belonging to the New orA
Telephone Company. Nobody was hurt'
although the manhole cover was huried
twenty feet into the air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
HIS CHICKEN REVENGE
ATAUNT TO FLUSHING
Resident Offers House In Best
District "To Negroes Only

A few weeks ago Ernest Sexauer' OF
s26 Broadway-Flushing, was forced 10
get rid of some highly prized fancy
chickens because neighbors complained
TO the Board Of Health. Sexauer owns
a barn in State Street, in Flushings
most fashionable residential district
close TO the new s650,O0O high school
and within a stones throw Of the resi-
dence OF Gilbert W. Roberts, New
York attorney. Sexauer used the barn
as a garage until few days ago, when
he had it renovated and made into
house.
Yesterday q huge sign appeared on
the barn. 1t read:
"For rent. 20 negroes only"
The "only" is in red letters, and helps
TO accentuste the angry feelings Of
Flushing's elite.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
Langhorne Forces
Again Cross Border

Marathon, Tex, May 12.-Reports
reaching here tonight indicate that
Major George T. Lsnghorne and A and
b troops of the 9Th Cavalry again have
crossed the Rio Grande from Boquillas
In an effort to surprise the bandits
holding Jesse Deemer 8 prisoner.
r. r. Hssbrouck, an assayer en-
ployed By a Boquillas mining concern
and now a government scout, arrived
here to-day with messages for Captain
John S. Chambers at Marathon. He is
said to have told friends that Colonel
Frederick W. Sibley, in command of the
Big Bend expeditionary force, would
order Major Langhorne to reinvsde
Mexico, as it was believed negotiations
for an exchange Of prisoners between
Langhorne and the bandits had fallen
through.
No news of the reported long range
parley between Major Langhorne and
the Mexican bandits for the release Of
Deemer in exchange for the three
Mexican bandits captured recently was
available tonight.
Army men here are Of the opinion
that if the stories of the conference
between Langhorne and the bandits are
true, it must result in failure. Deemer,
il alive, must be rescued by force,
which must call, for a sudden dash
toward the place where the bandits are
said to have their rendezvous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
By ROBERT DUNN.
tBy rlesrsph 70 rns Tribunal

Deemers Store, Boquillss, Tex. May
l2 (by courier 10 Marathon, Tex.).-
When I left General Pershing's army
and censorship promised to write
nothing In criticism Of the formers
equipment or the lstter's logic. Here,
with our second eXpeditionary force,
the logic fsvors equally only praise Of
both.
There is no censorship-or, rather
Colonel Sibley and Major Lsnghorne
make It q matter Of conscience with the
writer. That is why / come 70 ptaise
equipment.
The outrage. hereabouts. which we
are standing on tip-toe to svenge, be-
gan a week ago. Until Wednesday. a
period of FIVE days. had this second
expeditionary force in the field wanted
At any time to communicate with Gen.
eral Funston, the War Department.
even President Wilson (sie), but ON
vav was open to them. And that wac
not a way provided by the army oy
the American people. 1t was by the
nrivstslv owned automobile of Major
G.. T. Langhorne.
oh, ye prepsredness' Is it any won
der one comes TO praise and remains
to pray, Not to the American people
but for them.
This Brewster County is larger
.,,.L .h.n the whole State of Rhode
Island. but no county there has ever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
Obregon Sends 10000
Troops to the Border
s..a c.rr.nond.nt q In, rrtbune.

rFrcru q 6ta6 Correspondent OF Tne TrfouneJ
Ell Paso. Tex, May i2.-Preparations
which indicate expectation on the par
Of the army that a general campaign IN
Mexico Is about to be inaugurated were
started here to-day, the most signin-
.snt action being a poll made OF the
FL Paso hospitals to determine no"
many wounded soldiers could be ac-
commodsted in addition to those cared
for in the post hospital at Fort Bliss
All thought Of an adjustment OF the
controversy over the retention OF
American troops in Mexico. has been
dissipated by failure OF the military
conferrees TO agree. II now Is known
that at no time during the conferences
held here by Generals scott ana oofe
gon was there the sligntest chahee "a
sor..ment. But one question reacned
the point OF discussion ana IL was n ~
one which made the conferences Ia,
oxss"vitbdrawal OF American troops
from Mexico.
Mexicans Shift Forces.
y,., " Amador, sub-secretary OF
,or.ign affairs Of Mexico, who psrtici,,
nst.S in the conferences here, called
on General Scott to-day and assured
him that such troop dispositions as
were necessary to restore and MAINTAIN
order along the frontier had been or
dered. IL, .,,
General Obregon. who Will remain
for a few days at Chihuahua City. has
directed General Trevino 70 send lo,ooo
msn into the states of chihuahua and
Coshuils These forces will be taken
Srom Torreon, San Pedro ard other
points in the southern part of Coshuila.
Treyino's headquarters will be IN Ch.-
huahua City. ,..-.
about Parrsl has been ordered, and
vha. the Mexicans regard as an ade-
ouate force will be dispatched to the
Rig Bend country TO capture the ban"
dits and rescue James Deemer. who
w.s captured in the Glenn Springs raid.
General Scot. previously had assured
General Obregon and Mr.. Amador that
withdrawal Of the American troops
from the district below Nsmiqulpa al
,esdy had begun, and Mr.. Amsdor as
ss,t.d that this district would be con-
trolled without loss Of time BY Mexi-
can forces.
Mexican officials and civilians on the
Csatiuued on psgs ., column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
ID hEXICANS SEIZED
IN UPRISING PLOT
Revolt Planned in Texas, Arizona
and New Mexico, 'Tis Said.

Corpus Christi. Tex, Msy 12.-Nu-
merous arrests of Mexicans were made
in Kleberg County to-day by agents OF
the United States Department Of Jus
tice, Texas rangers and county peace
officers in the investigation OF an al
legged plot for a Mexican uprising in
the Southwest. Fourteen Mexlcans
were in Jail tonight in Kingsville.
Information that the uprising was
set for May 8, Mexican national holi-
day, but postponed to May 10, was
found on the persons of several ar
rested, according to officers.
The plot, the Investigators say. pro-
vided for the banding together OF Mex
leans in Texas, Arizona and New Mex
ico to throw off "the Yankee yoke
Colonel Uuis Norm. said to have been
an officer in Villas army, was one OF
those arrested. He will be taken to
San Antonio Monday for srralgnment
in the Federal court. go.
More arrests will be made within
forty-eight hours, officers say.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
MEXICANS RAID
ARIZONA TOWN
Americans Escape from
Bandits at Po1aris by
Automobile.

Tucson, Ariz., May IL. Mexican
bandits are reported to have raided Po-
lnris, a mining camp, seven miles below
Lochiel, on the border, yesterday, driv-
ing out the Americans. who escaped to
Nogales in automobiles. Colonel Sage,
commandsnt at Nogales, sent a COM
pany Of infantry and twenty cavalry
men to guard Lochiel, Washington
camp and other towns on the American
side.
A telephone message received here
from Washington Camp this afternoon
stated that American soldiers hsd
crossed the line and visited Polar:s,
but found the bandits had fed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
So BRITISH WARSHIPS
SEEN IN NORTH SEA
Officers Tell of Steering Nor
wegian Steamer Through Fleet.

Boston, May IA British feet Of
ffty-three wsrships. ranging from sub
marines to superdreadnougbtS, was OBJ
served in the North Sea by the Nor
wegian steamer Siljestad, according to
statements by her officers on her ar
rival here from Copenhagen to-day.
Their anxiety 10 get their vessels
clear OF the fighting ships. they said,
prevented any close study of the feet,
which cruised about during two days
Of the Siljestad's voyage in North Sea
waterA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
45 900 WILL MARCH TO CALL
OF PREPAREDNESS TODAY
TEXAS FALLS VICTIM
TO LACK OF DEFENCE
Territory Large Rhode Island Desered-Le Safer in
Mexico Than Across Line in Brewster County
Troops Anxious to Pursue Raiders.

exhibited, advertised over the land,
such a sight as those bloody foot
prints Of little Howard Compton, In
his fathers shack, up st Glenn Springs.
We talk mighty big, our indignation
foams, when we deal with German
atrocities in Belgium, 5000 miles away.
They, too, were committed by power
friendly as Mexico Is TO us.
The sole difference Is that none can
question the evidence in our case. II
it had happened in Rhode Island, a
soldier of Sovereign" power mur-
dering so there, suppose we might
have WINGED. Terribly does geography
seem TO dictate and measure our
moral indignation in an inverse ratio
Grave enough we are in fuming at the
brutishness Of other peoples enemies
But when 1t comes TO putting hands
into our pockets to avenge and provide
against our own, the mere thought OF
militarism and its "tsint" blsnches, cur
blood strikes our arms with palsy.
The Compton case is not the first
nor. as it seems, will it be the last.
It is but the elimination. But such
climaxes seem to have lost the power
of stirring any one.
They make US, with our weakened
moral stamina, feel this less and less.
They tie the gold-swollen hands out
side our pockets. -,
So Major Langhorne buys and would
buy again like every other officer in
Continued on page 2, column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
MILLER, STAND UP!"
HELPLESS HOBO OBEYS
Recorders Ruse Discloses Beg
gar's Knavery.

Bayonne, N. j., May l2.-"Miller:
stand upl" was the sharp command OF
Recorder William J. Cain 10 one OF
the prisoners before him in the police
court here this morning. Miller
jumped TO his feet. In a moment he
reached back for the crutches on which
he had limped into court. He had told
the police that he couldn't move with
out them.
Never mind the crutchesl" was the
recorders second order. "Get out OF
Bayonne," was the third, and Don't
you come back" the last. Miller hur-
ried from the courtroom with the
crutches under one arm. He had been
arrested for begging.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
LOOKS FOR WORK,
FINDS BLINDNESS
ru,ius silvermam, Aged Book
keener. Stricken in Street.

An old man, shabbily dressed s.0ou
still in Forty-fourth Street. near Nih'n ,
Avenue, yesterday afternoon roopeu ~
HIS ewes. CROPPED for moment 'heh
cried out in terror:
"My Cod Pm blindl"
He was Julius S. Silverman' siX'y-
seven. a bookkeeper out Of work ana
hunting job. Pstrolman Murphy OF
the West Forty-seventh Street station
found him feeling his way toward the
nearest building, and caused him 10
be taken to the Polytechnic Hospital
There il was said there was little hope
Of his recovering his sight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-13
BARNARD SAYS COLUMBIA
ATHLETE WAS KISSED
Violet Scented Note Tells On
Football Captain.

Frank Simonds, Columbia's football
captain, boasted in his class statistics
that he never had been kissed. Bar
nard." however, says he has.
The evidence took the form Of q
violet-scented note that dropped from
the mails into the hands of the editor
Of "The Senior Book" yesterday. That
individual read it carefully, frowned,
then rushed out upon the campus and
permitted students to read this para
graph:
"Dear Editor: ! take IL upon my
self as a personal duty TO inform you
that Frank Simonds has participated
in an osculatory pastime. Accept this
letter IS truth, because it comes from
one who knows. BARNARD"