Mohave County miner., 1917-12-22
JEROME MINES
 STRIKE ESULPHIDE
By P. R. Mines.

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Dec. 20.-Sul-I phide ore, running from 20 to 9 per cent copper, and widening each day with development, has been struck in Jerome-Verde ground. The strike was made in the drift being run under the main top ore body, preparatory to rais- ing to the maintOp workings on the 12OO-foo level. The drift must be eX- tended ahead some 50 feet before it is under the maintop ore. Mining men view the sulphide as a real indication of a downward extension of the main top body and maintain that it is prac tically a fulfillment of theiI prophecy that before the end of 1917, the third big copper producer would be brought in, in the Jerome field.
 ! Work will begin in less than a week, and before the expiration of five months, the Verde Tunnel and Shelter r.ilroad, from U. V. crushing plant to Jerome, will be completed. Sevo-ll carloads of machinery and tools are now on the way, included in which is a mammoth steam shovel.
 The white kaolinized intrusive re gently encountered in the east drift on the 7OO-foot level of the Verde Com bination, has been followed 172 feet and though it is not really ore, it car ries some values. The encouraging feature, however, is, that similar ma terial was followed for 700 feet in United Verde Extension ground, before the ore body was struck.
 Coincident with the announcement that the Jerome-Portland company eX- poets to begin shipping ore with the | beginning of the new year, the suit of a number of stockholders in an en- deavor to oust A. B. Frame from the management and compel him to re- store to the company's treasury large stock ,has begun in the superior court. Gathered for the legal fray is a galaxy of attorneys from all over the state and the contest for control promises to be one of the most bitter lIv-fought issues ever tried in Yava- pai county court. Concerning tine progress of development at the proper ty, a report just issued by the com pany says: r
 'eThe company has completed all preparations for the handling of its ores and an 8O0-ton bin with gates for loading ore on trucks and short tramway from shaft bin, have been completed. The shaft has been equip ned with the second self-dumping skip, running in counterbalance, which will allow the handling of ore with
 out any interference with development work, as the bins at the shaft are
 two-compartment. All arrangements
 are completed and equipment installed
 and it is predicted by the management
 that ore shipments will be commenced
 before the first of the year"
 The Groom Creek section IS now
 filling no small place in the public
 eye, due chiefly to the activities ot
 Frank G. Mueller, representing St Louis capitalists, on the Emporia and ! Yellow Jacket properties. At the time Mueller took over the groups he
 said he would establish a model camp
 and he is now making good that prom
 ise in a remarkably rapid manner
 The road connecting the two groups two miles in length, is to be lighted with electricity for the entire distance . while the camps will be flooded with light at night so that operations, ii
 necessary, can be carried on without
 interruption for twenty-four hours. A , new boiler is being installed at the
 Emporia and the work of pumping . out that old-time producer of the vel
 low metal will begin in few days
 With the workings free of water, de-
 velopment on a scale new to the sec
 ton will begin, followed by reduction To accomplish the latter result, large rotary mill and the complementary machinery, are already en route from the east and will be installed imme-