Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-12
Verde Combination Now Working in Best Formation Yet Struck-Shaft Is Down 545 Feet-Schist Is Cut
CALUMET & JEROME
 STATION COMPLETED
Approximately 5000 Tons of Structural Steel Will Be Used in Construction of New U. V. X. Shelter.

JEROME. Aug. 11.-Verde Combi- nation is looking better than ever. l. is becoming more certain every day that this property is destined to be- come an important copper producer.
 The shaft is down 545 feet, and in the best showing ever opened at the Verde Combination. At $40 feet it passed out of the diorite and into an- other band of pre-Cambrian schisr. blacker and richer than ever in cop per.
 The last band of schist cut by the shaft was 27 feet thick. At 526 feet the shaft passed into band of diorite. which. of course, carried no mineraliza- tion.
 According to engineers who have traced out the formation on the sur face. this band of schist should be about POO feet thick. The 27-foot band is the thiekest cut so far. But the muck which came from that band av- eraged in the neishborhood of per cent copper, which indicates that the Verde Combination is pretty nearly mine today. There may be unlimited quantities of this low-grade ore. and the zone of secondary enrichment has not been reached.
 Showines Improve.
 Under date of August l. when the shaft was in the previous schist band. Manager Dave Morgan reported as fol- lows to President John L. Dyer:
 Bottom of shaft showing more real mineral than ever. Formation is a soft pre-Cambrian schist-real ore forma- tion
 Strike of formation and Limitations reversing from northwest to northeast. which is a splendid indication for more mineral"
 Calumet and Jerome
 Cutting of the station on the 600- foot level of the Calumet and Jerome was concluded today Tomorrow two drifts will have been started. and . crosscut will be headed westward. wheer the ore is believed to lie.
 This morning a Cameron four-stage centrifugal pump. with the electric motor which drives it. was lowered tO the 5O0-foot station. where it will be used until another electric pump. a duplicate of the one at the 800. is re- ceived.
 The station is 12 feet high and 2Ox27 feet in size. If necessary, it can b. enlarged with no trouble.
 Surveyor J William Waara is going underground at the C. & !. late this afternoon to run the lines for the crosscut and drifts.
 Shelter Is Rushed
 Approximately 5000 tons of struc- tural steel will be used in the construc- tion of the new United Verde Exten- sion smelter and it's adjuncts.
 This figure was given out by Thom- as McCurnin, general superintendent of erection for the Kansas City Struc- tural Steel company, who arrived last week and will remain on the ground until the contract of his firm has been carried out.
 Enough steel is already on the ground to make good start. but most of the work accomplished to date has been in the way of foundations. It will be some time before the effects of the work of McCurnin and his assist ants begin to show to the layman- Steel for the warehouse. carpenter shop. ma chine shop and power plant will arrive in about sixty days. By that time Nc Curnin will have at least sixty men working under him. and he will main tain that force until the contract Is carried out. If all goes well, his work will be finished in seven or eight months.
 A hcisting crane with capacity of 1.SO0 tons has already been set up. It