Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-23
ACTIVITY AT JEROME |S GROWING
 DAILY
United Verde Arranging To
 Increase Output Of Clark dale Shelter To More Than
 Eight Million Per Month
EXTENSION MAY BUILD
 OWN REDUCTION PLANT
Many Excellent Outlooks In Camp. Green Monster Shea Dundee, Two Strikes And Others Forging Ahead

JEROME. Ariz. April 22-With the United Verde Copper Company ar ranging to increase the output of it's CIarkdale sTelter 10 more than s. 100000 pounds a month. the United
 Verde Extension company is planning
 to build it's own reduction plant. 1 IL is generally understood here that
 the United Verde Extension has al ready closed a deal for l.. L. YOun's sDlendid apple ranch. a mile north of . Clarkdale. and will utilize the land l as a site for the smelter The location , is an ideal one. lying right between the Verde river and the Verde valley rail road. The transportation and water questions cffer no problems. Officials of the '. V F. company. while refusing to confirm the story | that the Young ranch has been pur- cbased admit that the piine must have
 shelter of it's own. They say thar i they have the biggest body of high grade copper ore in the world and that
 to continue 10 ship the ore tO Doug i las for treatment would be folly Re sides. if is practically impossible tO find outside smelteT caparity 10 take | care of thn increased ore output that is being planned for
 Tn March daily shipments from the United Verde Extension 10 Doug las averaged t5O tons. ihs total re turn was. in round figures. $500 000 and the expense was about S2O. eco.
 April shipments will average 200 ,ons a day. The ore averages twenty per cent copper.
 Four fifths of this ore comes from development work being done on the li0Ofcot level in the way of drifts. crosscuis and raises. The other ffth is stoped from the 1900.
 by the lTck of air
 Opera tiOus are greatly hampered by the lack of air. Only 13O men are now being used though there is room for many more. The property k equipped with only tlvo small cOmDres- Sors. bu' Q compressor with a capac- ity of 1900 cubic feet has been order ed and will soon b. on the ground If il is dee ed advisable the output ear be doubled.
 When the new compressor is in place winZp will be started in the sou,h drift. 1900 feet from the main shaft. and sunk t6 the 1GO0-font level. No one who has ever seen thai ore body cn the HOO foot level doubts that it continues on down to untold depths
 The real truth about that ore body has never been told U is known. however, that there is a 60-foot streak that averages 70 per cent coppeS. while the general average is around 2a per cent. The United Verde Extea- sion officials themselves do not know how wide the ore k
 Adjoining the T. V. Extension k which has been in force abour three weeks. the T. " F. reople. from their own workings. arc doinng l5a feer of dev"lopmet work monthly in Je- rome Verde ground
 United Verde
 Although it is moi being operated nearly jo its full capacity the United Verde is now treating 25rO tons of ore day All hut l50 tons uf this comes from the United Verde mIue. Fifty tons Of silicious ore Is received 'tt aAf AA''Ni NlAt V NsAN lsiA AfNIif-a lM Copper Basin. near Prescott. and loo tons. also silicious, comes from the Ludlow mine
 The daily output of copper from this tonnage is little over 201. 000 pounds The smeler's monthly production i> over 50o0.OO0 pounds Ir S"utemher this will he increased to e.,00 o00. and in November to 5000 Ge0.
 This will not he accomplished by adding to the present equipment ior the smcltcr for it is alresf. equipped to handle a vastly greater ton '1ce. hut 5y incrcasins the ere 0rcdUs t-pn cf the Uh d .'- rGc mina ! crush ing plant pow heine constructed ,t the mouth oi Le tunnel ths, enters th" mina Gn ,hs 1.0O0-foO .~v.i a-i
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