Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-30
Mining For All Metal In North ern Arizona County Is ln- creasing Daily. Much New Ground Is Being Worked
COPPER POPULAR WITH
 PRESENT HIGH PRICES
Copper Basin Still Attracting
 Attention From Capital As Well As From frospectors. Verde District Very Active
(By William p. De wolD.

PRESCOTT. Ariz. April 2s.-Min- ing for gold. silver. copper. tungsten. zine and lead is being prosecuted in Yavapai county with the most grati- i flying results and on an unprecedented scale Properties. which had for some time been imperative are again being worked under the incentive of the in creasinS demands for metals in the raw at enhancing prices. and the sams spur of increased demand and price is melting the owners of acreages that have heretofore been developed in desultory fashion to work their holdings in miner-like way.
 The recrudescence O fthe local min ing industry is general and is beeing furthered by the investment of out side capital in large amounts. These sums are increasing in number and size now the outlying areas are again accessible by the lifting of winters embargo on the more remote roads and trails Prescott, Jerome and the ST aller towns and camps of the cOun- " report a large increase in the vol ume of general trade-psrticularly in
 the outftting of prOspectors and min CTS. In fact. there has never been a period in the history of Yavapai cOun- " when general business was better
 and the mining business more pro- , porous.
 corpers Popular
 Copper mining is being followed in various sections here with very graii- flying results The United Verde k ! avaraua nr Qoa tone of copper ore daily: the Commercial an average of 100 tons daily. and the ! lesser properties from one one to four carloads of copper ores each week. in addition. the United Verde Exten- sion, known locally as the Little | Daisy" has reached the stage of de velopment where its future is as as sured as is that of the great United | Verde mine. itself. The ore condi | tions in the Verde Extension are SO satisfactory there has been a general speeding up fwOrk on a number of properties in the Verde Copper belt. There have also of late been a mum Der of important sales of mining acre age in that section. and the Copper Basin district
 ! passing fthe old Haynes property in the United Verde District to the Je- rome Victor Extension Copper Com Dany. recent yOrSaniZed and financed by prominent copper mining and bank ign interests fCalumet. Michigan. The property end lines the United Verde Development plans have nos as yet been completed. but your rep resentative is authorized tO state that they will be extensive. and will be tn charge of men who are thoroughly
 conversant with the ore occurren- cies O fthe Verde District.
 Big Copper Merger.
 James M Layman is closing al Je- rome the details of copper merger of magnitude and will leave for Pitts burg, Pa. in few days to confer with the capitalists of that city wnO are financing the project The merger embraces approximately 1000 acres of choice copper bearing ground in the vicinity fthe United Verde and United Verde Extension properties
 Plans are shaping for the resump- ton of work on the property fthe Boston & Jerome company whose holdings adioin holdings of the United Verde company. Arrangements are also well advanced for the listing of Boston and Jerome share son the San Francisco stock exchange. and on the Boston and New York curbs The acreage is viewed with favor by the mining Ten of Jerome and appears to have an assured future. Suth at least is the opinion of persons who have knowledge of it's ore yielding possi- hilities
 The Mescal group another proper " in the United Verde district that is to undergo development in the i'm mediate future Little Rock Arkansas.
 capital. representa- on 'he ground by Col l.. w Cherry of that city is back of the enterprise. Since his arrival at Jerome Colonel Cherry has
 received number of offers from local mining men to purchase the group. but t is understood each was
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