Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-24
Prescott Writer Declares That Jerome District has Promise of Becoming Greatest Cop per Center in World.
MANY PROSPECTS ARE
 IN GREAT DEMAND
Similar Geological Conditions in Various Parts of the Re- zion Said to Indicate Great Growth in Few Years.
(By William P. de Wolf.)

PRESCOTT, AriZ.. Dec. 23-A practi- cal miner. one who has mined copper ore with financial success in Montana and the Lake Superior country, stood with me few days ago on the highest point of the iron outcrop on the proper ty of the Verde Copper Development company, in the closing hours of a day spent in the hills surIounding Je- rome On either side. as far as the eye could see. similar outcrops thrust themselves upward through the lime and sandstone sedimentarieS and en- croachei upon the country in huge masses of Armorphous rock-giganuc beacons. marking underlying bodies of copper ore
 Below us the Verde river. destined D turn the wheels of mighty power plants and to supply water for exten- sive smelting operations, streamed across the bottoms like a streak of quicksilver Nearer by the smoke plumed stack of the Clarkdale shelter lifted skyward for 800 feet; and at its fiery base clustered the white brick houses of the model town of Clarkdale' as though seeking warmth against the chill of December's air
 Dynamite Voices Activity.
 10 the right the mining camp of Jerome chung precariously 10 its pre- cipitous hillside like the overgrown village Of some clif-dwelling race of l..s. In Is bulked the mountainous dump of the United Verde mine. Below the camp the United Verde Extension mine un- earthed a treasure of high grade cop Der ore, ana the hacienda of Managing Owner James $. Douglas, loomed whitely on it's isolated butte. The circling hills echoed the heavy boom of the dynamite blasts which voiced the tale of the mining activity sur rounding us Turning from this scene of animation, my companion said:
 The copper ore bodies underlying the Verde Mining district are, in my opinion, the most extensive. as well as the richest ever discovered. The unusually high copper content of your local ores was demonstrated years ago in the old Wade Hampton stope of the United Verde mine, and more recently in the winze in that most remarkable of copper mines. the United Verde Extension. No discovery of copper ore of recent years, if ever. has caused so much stir and comment in mining circles as that made of late in the United Verde Extension. IL has em- phasized the value of the copper ore bodies of the Verde district-hrst de monstrated in the United Verde mine and. in my opinion, it demonstrates as well what may reasonably be eS- pected to attend development in gen eral throughout the district
 Slow to Believe.
 When the news of the high grade copper ore body opened in the United Verde Extension first became current 1t was received with considerable skepticism in mining and investment circles. The claims made were so startling. were so out of the ordinary. they challenged belief. People in gen eral were slow to accept the fact that ore carrying from 15 to 22 per cent copper was the rule and not the ex- ception at the United Verde Extension mine. and were at first disposed to discount its value at least one half. When the smelter returns were pub lished. however. there was a change of sentiment in even the most con. servstive circles. That change is re- fiected by the large sums of money which are now available for mining researches here and by the mining activity all above us.
 With the expansion of mining op- erations in the local fields and the Continued on Page Two)