Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-15
Famous United Verde, As Usual, Heads List, With Extension Second and Threatening to Soon Be Near Top.
UNPARALLELED SCHIST
 BELT IS DEVELOPED
Many Properties Below Jer- ome Are Making Excellent
 Showings-Blue Bell and Henrietta Coming to Front.
By William p. De Wolf.


 PRESCOTT, Ariz. July 14.-During the month of June the mines of Yava- pal county produced about 13,OOO. .O00 pounds of copper of an estimated to- tai value of s4.OOO, 900. based upon an average price of 30 cents per pound. Jerome. and the famous United Verde mine, as usual, headed the list in copper poundage and value. The United Verde Extension mine was. however, a close second. Upon con- pletion of it's smelter at Cottonwood. about five miles south of Jerome, the Verde Extension will probably equal if not exceed the monthly output of its noted neighbor. Following are the copper output figures for June They are in the main correct, although a closer checking up of late June ship ments may alter them slightly one way or the other:
 United Verde mine. $500. 900 pounds; United Verde Extension mine. 5.200.- 900 pounds; Arizona Binghamton mine. 100000 pounds; Blue Bell and De Soto mines. 541. 900 pounds: Cop per Queen mine, 30.OO0 pounds: But ternut and Henrietta mines. 100000 pounds; Commercial mine. 12.000 pounds; Copper Hill mine. 1000 pounds In addition to the foregoing the Dundee-Arizona mine at Jerome sent out about 125 tons of copper-gold- silver ore during June of a general average value of s2O per ton. This ore was mined at shallow depth in workings other than those giving off from the main shaft.
 Increasing Output.
 The Blue Bell and De Soto mines. located to the south of the Arizona Binghamton. near Mayer are operated in conjunction with the Humboldt shelter Their output represents about one-third of the ore treated at that plant The ore from the Copper Queen mine, adjoining the Arizona Bingnamton was treated in the latter's mill. The ore from the Commercial mine. located in Copper Basin. and owned by the Phelps Dodge company. was sent as a Aux to the United Verde and Humboldt smelters. A DOT ton of the United Verde Extension ore was forwarded to the Humboldt shelter. but the greater portion was shipped to the Phelps Dodge smelters at outside points. The Henrietta and Butternut ores were reduced at the shelter at Mayer. The Copper Hill ore was shipped to the sampler at Wickenburg The ore from the Cop per Hill runs high in molybdenite and is being mined and shipped at gen. erous profit
 A noteworthy feature attaching to the output of copper from Yavapai county is the increasing poundage contributed by mines located along the belt of mineralized schist which Dr. Walter Harvey Weed. J. H. Shockley and other noted geologists have pro- nounced to be the south extension of the famous Verde copper belt. An equally noteworthy feature is the num- Der of copper properties in this belt lndl are III lnt pdilldiir-pTOuuStiNN and nearly-productive stages of de- velopment. Taken in rotation from Jerome southward the list of such properties reads as follows:
 Blue Monster. Copper Lode Mines. Loma Verde Copper, Big Reef Copper and Arizona Copper Queen-any or all of these properties possess copper yielding possibilities similar to prop critics in a like stage of development at Jerome, while the roster of produc- ing mines exceeds in number the list of shipping properties at Jerome.
 Record of Accomplishment.
 Less than two years ago there was not a regularly productive copper property to the south of Jerome; de- velopment work was scant and spo- radio. and the section in general was
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