Weekly journal-miner., 1916-08-09
REVIEWS HISTORY OF THE LITTLE
 DAISY MINE
VICE-PRESIDENT WHICH FER IS NOW IN JEROME LOOKING OVER THE RAR-FAMED PROPERTY.
Special Correspondence.


 JEROME, August 3.-L. E. Which CT, vice-president of the United Verde Extension, IS in Jerome in the inter ests of that mining property. Mir. Whicher has mining interests in other sections of the. country, including properties in the Couer de Alene dis trict in Idaho, and Nevada and Cali fornia mining districts.
 Speaking of Jerome, Whicher de- plored the lack of improvement dur ing the Y years he has observed af- fairs here, but struck a keynote of optimism in remarking that he be- lieved the natural advantages of Je- rome, which he thinks are unusually attractive from the standpoint of health and comfortable climate, will gain for the town a recognition of what its future can be made. He spoke hopefully of changes which he hopes to see come about, with a gen. oral expression of interest in the fu- ture destinies of the dwelling place of the numerous families who come here in response to the call of the mining industry.
 Speaking of the United Verde Ex- tension, by which name the young bonanza is known elsewhere almost to the exclusion of the home name of Little Daisy, Mir. Whicher recalled the different phases of its history, in cluding the entrance of the Douglas Tener interests into the management four years ago and its more recent pronounced success after years of trying ordeals that might have feazed men less determined and optimistic than the few who guided it's dcstinies. The year following the arrival of MT. Whicher in Jerome, 1899, Geo. w. Hull, who at that time owned a one third interest in the U. V. Extension, sold it for 16 claims including the Cleopatra and the ground the SS shaft now stands on. The original four claims. comprising U. V. Exten- sion holdings, the March, Bitter Creek, Carbonite, Conglomerate and the fraction, the Little Daisy, passed to the control of Mir. Whicher and his associates. Mir. Whicher men toned the name of J. J. Fisher, min ing engineer of Yavapai county, now deceased, who figured largely in the early-day development of the mine as a man of prominence and integrity in mining affairs of the county The foregoing Is fragmentary piece of history in connection with the early efforts toward the development of the little copper bonanza, but will recall to those intimately acquainted with the mining history of the district links in the chain of events which led. each in their own way, up to the present.
 Mir. Whicher was very positive in one regard, the speculation "orgie,' which he says will be followed by a very bad headache, just as a similar in the districts activity wound up in 1900. He made it very plain, however that he excepted, al ways, the actual development work being done and the men who are do- ing it. He aimed this remark at the people who are depending for their expected wealth, upon purely specu- lative values of mining stocks, before ! producing mine has been proven. Persistent development work along lines of possible success receive his commendation, and even here, he ioresees discouraging situations be- fore the valuable assets of the dis rict will be proven.