Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1917-03-17
MINERS SHARE
IN ADVANCED
COPPER PRICE
(By William P. De Wolff

PRESCOTT, Ariz., March 13.-Re-
cent wage raises made to the miners
of the Jerome Copper belt in con-
formity with the advance in the aver
age price of copper per pound during
February, will increase the mine pay
roll there to above 100000 the cur
rent month. The output of copper for
March will be in excess of 100000
pounds. At an average price of q
cents per pound this output will have
a value of approximately S2,7OO,OOO.
Twenty-Five mining properties are IN
dergoing development there. Within
a few weeks about dozen other prop
critics, upon which winter laid res
training hand, will again be opera
tive
The recent strike of black sulphides
at the property of the Jerome Verde
Copper company, while not a discov-
cry of first magnitude may be accep-
ted as indicative of the presence Of a
large body of pay ore at depth and
of the value of the estate as mining
asset. In fact, the strike may with
considerable assurance be accepted as
Indicative of the continuation into
Jerome Verde ground of the rich cop
per ore body exposed in the United
Verde Extension company's property,
adjoining. With the announcement Of
the strike and the quick advance in the
price of Jerome Verde shares that in
defatigable gossiper, Old Man Rumor,
for the steenth time circulated the re-
port that the control of Jerome Verde
is vested in the Douglas interests,
owners of the Verde Extension
ground. As in the past, there appears
to be nothing locally to warrant the
assertion save the fact the manage
ments of the two companies are work
ing in harmony and each has free &C
cess to the others property in the in
terest of development.
HlLISDuTR q JGEOluC ouSy
Development of the Pittsburg &
Jerome property is progressing salts
factoriIy and is attended by mineral
conditions indicative of the presence
of high grade copper ore at depth. The
company's main tunnel is now ap-
proximately $50 feet beyond the shaft
and 400 feet below the 500-foot level.
The tunnel has at this time a length
of about 1000 feet and the shaft a
depth of about 900 feet. The estate
comprises 387 acres and lies mile
and a quarter to the south Of the
United Verde and United Verde Elk
tension mines. The surface forma-
ton is decidedly favorable to the dis
covery of a large and highly mineral
lied body of copper ore at a depth of
from 1900 to 1900 feet. Conditions
in shaft and tunnel lend emphasis to
those above ground.
Operations have been resumed at
the property of the Lucky Strike Min
ing company, formerly the Stein
Copper company, in the Zonia coun-
try. Concurrently contract was en-
tered into with the Great Western
Shelters corporation to ship large
tonnage of iron-bearing ore to the lat
ter's plant near Mayer. Delivery is
to start at once. This ore also car
ries a copper content of considerable
value-a condition which, added to its
value to the smelter people as flux,
by reason of its iron content, assures
the Lucky Strike management an ex-
cellent profit on all shipments.
Strike Cold Copper Ore
At a depth of 1000 feet a body of
gold-copper ore has been entered in
the Monte Cristo mine, one of the
famous silver bonanzas of this section
two-decades gone. The strike has
created considerable excitment here