El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-21
Mining Company to Build
Two Towns, Smelter
and Long Tunnel.

jerome. Ariz., Nov. 21-A1 extern
sive building program has been inau-
gurated by the United Verde Exten-
sion Mining company.
A smelter with a capacity OF 1909
tons a day. two complete towns. a
hauIage tunnel 1900 feet long. and
numerous miscellaneous buildings are
included in the Extension plans. The
total cost viii be in the neigEborhood
o. s7,5Oo,0OO.
work on the smelter and the haul
age tunnel is well under way. and
contracts viii shortly be let for q
hotel. an apartment house and an ice
factory. Construction Of Verde. as
the town at the smelter is to be called,
will be commenced about January !.
One Of the shelters two rsverher-
atory furnaces will be in operation
some time next spring II has been
reported that the first reverheratory
would be blown in about March !. but
general mana Ter George KinEdon
SAYS that It will be some time after
that before one furnace is comnlete.
Foundations are row being laid for
both. Each viii have a capacity OF
500 tons aday.
Shelter to Cost 50 100000.
ne LVLl4 NNaL VI AAAA eAAfNAAGA " -A-
be in the neighborhood Of 100000.
This is double the original estimate,
which was made when materials were
much lower than they are now.
The smelter site is about seven
miles southeast Of Jerome, down IN
the Verde valley, and the town VIII
be built Immediately south and south
west Of the smelter. As many houses
as are necessary to accommodate en-
ployes will be erected there In Oh
probability the total cost OF the town
will be around 100000.
All Buildings of Brick.
All buildings in Verde VIII be OF
brick. The Extension company g
brick kiln, situated near the smelteT,
will be fired up in few days. It's
capacity will be 10000 brick a day.
Plans are now being drawn for an
ice plant which viii have capaclly
Of 20 tons a day. This plant VIII go
FAR toward relieving the shortage Of
ice which prevails in the verde as
triCt every summer
A new three-mile railroad. built ~
the Extension. connects the smelteE
with ClarkdaIe. three miles nor a.
which is the terminus Of the Verde
valley branch OF the Santa Fe system.
Grading for a railroad northwest from
the smelter to the haulage tunnel en-
trance Is now in progress Both DrOaq
gauge and narrow gauge tracks VIII
be continued on into the mine on the
1900 foot level
Tunnel 1000 Feet Long.
The total length Of the tunnel viii
be 1900 feet, q little more Than ~ %
miles, and IL viii cost SSoO,OOe- Il IS
being dug under contract by me 70
te- Construction company, OF Ne"
York and St Louis, which has men
" orking from both ends. About 700
feet Of the tunnel is complete
Bids Will be opened November 70
for a 40-rOom concrete hotel 10 pc
built for the Extension on the nj
side lust north Of the Edith snaIt. II
will cost about 100000. Il is not 10
be a public hotel but viii be exclu-
sively for the accommodation OF the
ccmpapy's engineers, shift bosses and
other employees
Within a shoft time the company
viii ask for bids on a house Of either
u or 20 apartments. 10 be built III
Jerome. This will also be exclusively
for employees.
New Town for the s'HOSback.S
Tentative plans are drawn for
town on the jerome "HOgback,. just
east Of the city limits. which Is 10
include a hospital library, store,
church. moving picture show and nu-
nerous dwellings General manager
Kingdom says that work viii not h
started on this town until next sum
mer. and perhaps not even then
Concrete viii be the building ma
terial used for Walnut Park, as the
Hogback'' town Will be named The
cost OF hauling bricks up the hill
from the brick plant would be pro
Much underground construction Is
going on in the L. Y. Extension mine
and this is interfering with produc-
ton. Ground IS now being blasted
for the ore pockets which will be
necessary when the haulage tunnel IS
complete. At present the ore IS hoist
ed through the Edith shaft. sent down
10 the bins on the Verde Tunnel ana
Shelter railroad by on aerial tram
nile long. and shipped TO Douglas for
treatment.
Last month 200 carloads Of ore. each [
averaging 30 tons, were shipped IN
September the shipments were 249
,arIoads. and in August they were 500.
Ore - Per Cent Conner.
The ore averages around . per
cent copper. therefore the Extension
production for October YVES in the
lesghborhood Of 100000 pounds.
Extension officials have been ev-
lecting that the copper content OF the
IRE shirDed would begin to drop hut
t still holds no TO . per cent Tfe /
pest ore. Of course. is being shipped.
nd that which is termed low grade
IN the Extension being left in the
stones until the COMPANY has its owl
-vr elter in operation It is eNnected
hat the average Of the ore treated at
he smeIter viii be around 10 per
,ent