Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-16
Jerome Victor Extension Min ing Company Pushing Its Work Preparing Old Shaft Fer Explorations
FORMER GEOLOGICAL
 BELIEFS AT NAUCHT
Developments Of The Verde
 Extension Tend To Dis Prove All Of The Old The
 ories In That District
' CBy William P. De Wolff

PRESCOTT, Ariz.. July 15.-Having 1 successfully staged a four-day Fourth of July celebration to an accompani- ment of powder and noise such as our grandsires pulled off when they were 1 boys; given ear to the reading of the old Declaration, and then told for the 'steenth time how our ancestors stern will drove the Redcoats three times down renowned Bunker Hill, the peo- | pie of Prescott and of Yavapai county in general have again taken up the quieter pursuits of their every day life, chief of which is mining.
 Over in the Verde copper belt, for which the camp of Jerome is the buc- kle and outfitting point, the work of unwatering the shaft sunk by former owner-Haynes Copper-on the prop erty of the Jerome Victor Extension Copper company is being accomplish ed at the rate of about 100 feet per week. This work is necessarily slow as great deal of water accumulated in the workings during several years of inactivity, filling the drifts, cross cuts and shaft from the lower, or 1900 foot level, to above the 50-foOt level and forming an immense underground reservoir. For a period of seven weeks water has been hoisted without l, intermission. with the result that the workings are now available to a point below the 550-foot level. As soon as the workings are entirely freed from their overburden of H. O., the man. agement will put on three shifts of miners and proceed to develop the mine.
 Repairing Shaft
 Operations at the Jerome Victor are in charge of George w. Salisbury, who for a number or years was a member of the engineering staff of the great United Verde property. which adjoins the Jerome Victor on the west Salisbury brings to the development of the latter the know ledge of the ore dispositions of the Verde district gained during his ser vice in the United Verde, and is un- questionably the best man for the work at hand that could have been selected as he is thoroughly conyer- sant with the trend of the lower ore bodies in the United Verde and their relation to similar ore bodies at depth in the Jerome Victor. He has a crew of miners at work repairing the shaft from surface to the 550-foot level and will continue this work at lower lev els as fast as they are unwatered.
 He has ample funds with which to prosecute work and as soon as IS practicable will resume operations on the 12O0-foot level. The former own CT had driven a lateral 160 feet at this point when lack of funds forced a shutdown. It is believed that further work there will at least serve as a guide to operations at greater depth, and it is not improbable it will result in the discovery of pay copper ore. The real objective is. however, a depth of 1500 feet as it is known that ore was stopped up to or very close to the line of the Jerome Victor proper ty on the 1500-fOot level of the United Verde mine The plant of machinery mer precedents and disclosing Of re- ing utilized for present needs, but later will be superseded by a modern and more efficient one
 A Reversal Of Form
 Developments of the past fourteen months on the property of the United NeTQe EAltuSltH fOllpdlN ll@illit Daisy) have revealed geological con ditions which tend to set at naught former beliefs regarding the ore de- positions of the Verde district By the foregoing is meant that the ore bodies in the United Verde Extension mine were encountered on the hang ing wall side of the north fault, the discovery being contrary to all for mer precedents and disclosingo re markable bodies of high grade ore which carries 40 per cent copper in shipping lots and general average of 20 per cent copper. The United Verde Extension is billing weekly to smelter from five to eight carloads of from 20 to 40 per cent copper ore. This same fault passes through the property of the Jerome Victor EXten- ! sion company. No work was, howev- CT. done on this portion of the acreage by the Haynes people It is almost (COntinued on Page ?