Weekly journal-miner., 1916-11-29

important pcIlOu III us career. II IS between a one-company camp and real big mining district, with every thing favoring the latter conclusion. The principal topic of conversation to be heard everywhere in the Jerome Clarkdale district is another big strike"
 There have been mining booms be- fore and there will be again, as the great undeveloped portions of the United States attract favorable atten- ton and development. Jerome, for years regarded as unattractive, is now the center of, perhaps, the greatest copper boom in the history of the United States. It is a real boom from every standpoint, without some of the color which characterized the earlier stampedcs.
 An Unreal Boom.
 People who have followed booms in the past generation or two are talk cn aback at the quietness of Jerome. The little mining town, located on the side of mountain, is asleep carly in the evening. Except for miners com ing of shift from the United Verde mine, people arc scarce on the streets of the town after 1 o'clock at night. It is largely due to the absence of liquor.
 That the elimination of liquor has done much for Jerome and every other mining camp in the State of Arizona Is certain. This is more than true of camp that is experiencing the boom now holding in the great Yavapai mining camp. The saloon is utterly absent In the old days many drunken men could be seen on the streets by day and the nights were 12- hour shifts of ribald orgies. Though there IS some bootlegging done in the new-old camp, the large major ity of the people is very temperate.
 Result of Temperance.
 As result of the elimination of the saloon there Is a large amount of money now going into the ground for the purpose of development. Fewer gamblers and liquor sellers arc wax ing fat and prosperous. It might be said justly that some of the promoters are getting fat and prosperous but on the whole there is less wild-catting in Jerome than might be expected.
 Banking institutions in Jerome arc loaded with money There IS plenty of money in general circulation and every aspect of the community be- speaks prosperity More money, pro portionatcly, Is going into actual de- vclopment in the Jerome district than has ever been spent in like manner in a boom camp before \ large part of this money is coming from local workers; miners, smeltermcn, clerks, stcnographcrs and in short from every man, woman and child in the region.
 The Big Man In Jerome.
 All eyes in Jerome are turned to the activities of the man who has put the camp on the map" That man is James s. Douglas, the man who had faith in the Little Daisy and who de- vcloped it to a point where it is now considered the equal and, in many places, the superior of the old United Verde Copper Company.
 For years Jerome slept in peace Engineers, miners and all others who took an interest in things of such nature considered the orc body which the United Verde was working to be a chimney Some thought different Douglas backed his judgment and uncovered the greatest body of high grade copper orc ever found in the country.
 Little Daisy, or United Verde Ex- tension became the greatest mine in the country overnight The word greatest is used in the sense that it awakened Jerome 10 its possibilities ' Ii put the town on the mining worlds list as conner.
 Shelters and Townsites.
 United Verde Extension, undoubt- ! cdly, could mine much more orc than . if does today ii the transportation ia ciliticS were better and II its smelling capacity was enlarged. Though noth- ing definite has been announced by ! Mr Douglas or his associates, the . near future may sec the start on the construction of another shelter in the . district Its location is still matter of considerable doubt The Little Daisy people own property in several places. The most probable location is a point about mile and a half south of Clarkdalc and near the Yer de river.
 With the Dundcc-Arizoua interests the United Verde Extension people arc said 10 be planning townsitc very near Jerome. located on hog back which ends in the town o{ Jc- rome and protrudcs its nose into the Verde valley This would relieve the congestion of the town and would add pcrnanancc to ii that it now lacks m some respects.
 There is considerable talk in Je- rome, also, of railroad. James s. '