Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-01
COPPER OUTPUT. OF JEROME |S
 INCREASING
II, 1000, ,OOO Pound Production
 This Month, and Possibly
 More, Is Expected; Many
 Big Companies Are Active. !
(By A. Valjean)

l per output or tut JtIOllle ulSlllCl TUT the present month will establish new high record, scoring close to the IT, 100000 pound mark and possibly ex ceeding that figure a tritie. The out put is the consequence of month of high efficiency and top capacity en- ploynfent in all departments of the producing companies, United Verde and United Verde Extension, with some small contributions of customs ores from the Copper Chief and a few lesser developing properties. Com pare the l1.O00000 pound figure of the present month of March with the 8, 5000 pounds for which the district was looked to as a maximum up until little more than year ago, and an idea will be gathered of the immense progress that has been made in the last twelve months, a progress that has not been confined to the producers but has been equally vigorous in spirit in the developing area and that has also reached into trade channels, where merchants are carrying the N made by the individual merchants of gain of from 100 to 300 per cent in transactions since March a year ago, when the prevalent feeling was that things could not be better.
 Outlook Excellent.
 In connection with the producers, it ia ta h.a hnt In and United Verde Extension have to- day more satisfactory outlooks than ever before in their history. United Verde Extension has been making ore very rapidly the last several months The more that is seen of its under ground workings the more enthusiasm there is about this property, and the more certainty among its shareholders that it is entitled to sell at a very much higher figure than has even pre- vailed in the market Its ore re- sources as now demonstrated are of sufficient extent to justly double the market value indicated in recent quotations. and that on a much lower price for the metal. One prominent engineer is on record as declaring that Extension would be selling conserva- lively at $50 on 16 cent metal mar ket
 Plan to Steam-ShoveI.
 United Verde is about to give an exhibition of it's wonderful resource | fitness in an entirely new direction. 1 for the plans are now nearing com pletion for the opening of steam shovel pit on the mountain back of the | old smelter site. This pit will ulti- | mately have depth of 300 feet. Elk | plorations carried out to date have | established that there is an abundance | Of ore to warrant the enterprise and l the large expenditure of money which | will attend the addition of the new | operating department. The feature | about it which will give Jerome world | wide prominence as an exception in | the steam shovel mining class is that the ore mined will be direct smelting. carrying sufficient copper content to | readily enable the avoidance of con centrating processes in advance of go- ing to the furnaces.
 No other steam shovel mine of the present day is able to do this. if New | Cornelia, operating an entirely new practice. a combination of acids and | electric current which does away with | all fire treatment of it's ore Tn the ex- traction of the copper content. be ex- pected. Verde will have another big advantage in its steam shovel mining. in that it will have an average of only about so feet of overburden to handle, in comparison with from 75 to 175 feet contended with by most of the large low grade steam shovel mines. Cornelia again excepted. for it has the remarkable condition of com mercial ore from the surface down.
 Jerome Verde Active.
 Among the developing properties. Jerome Verde continues to hold the center of the stage in point of inter- est. This property is confidently look ed to by all of the district to bring in it's ore body within the month Of April. They are now cutting the sta tion and putting down the 25 foot sump from the 1885 level. from where | they will drift for the ore under the twenty feet of iron capping recently cut at 970 feet. This 1885 depth cor !. responds with the 1400 level of United Verde Extension. the difference being made through the higher elevation of the Extension shaft collar. IL is pos
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