Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-07
More Production, More Miners Working and More Capital Invested Than Ever Before in Yavapai's Kingdom.
MANY PARTS SHARE
 IN GREAT PROSPERITY
Jerome Contributes Largest Part of the Prosperity Pow CT Plants, Mills and Smelt- CTS on the Increase.
tBy William P. De WolD


 PRESCOTT. Arizona. Jan. 6.-Yava- pal County rounded out last year and entered on the current year with more mines operating. with more mills running, with more miners work ing and with general business in a more flourishing condition than ever before. The year just closed was es- pecially notable for the amount of new work started and for the number of old-time producers throughout the county at large at which mining oper- ations were resumed.
 Several hundred thousand dollars worth of mine and mill machinery was erected during 1916. the mining camps of the county were connected with each other and with the main center of trade at Prescott by means of good roads, and the community as a whole placed in a position to enjoy to the fullest the mining and general business prosperity scheduled for 1917.
 The March of Prosperity
 The real era of quickened mine de- velopment did not materialize until the latter part of last year; but when ii did materialize It spread to all DOT tions of the county with persistency that has not been equalled since the rush" to the mining districts of Southern Nevada a decade ago.
 The limitations of newspaper space will not permit the covering of the foregoing matters in detail in the present article: but the following summary of the status of the allied industries of mining and milling at the outset of the current year will serve to demonstrate the importance and extent of the work underway or planned.
 Million Dollar Power Plant
 A contract has been awarded and grading started for an auxiliary cleo trical plant for the Arizona Power company, to cost approximately ST. OOO.OOO. The plant will have 10000 horse power capacity and will be con- nected with the lines radiating from the company's Fossil Creek works; thereby consolidating and increasing the electric power service to the mines. mills and towns of Yavapai county. The site of the new plant is on the Verde river about three miles above Clarkdale
 Another important project now un- sion comuany's smelter. It will oc- cunv 2 site on the HOpkins ranch near the Verde river and will be erected at cost of several million dollars. The company will build a railway for ore transportins nurposes between the mine and smelter and to connect with a branch of the Santa Fe at Clartdale Railwav and smelter are to he in operation within two years.
 The Plant for Victor
 Fo-tv thousand dollars worth of hoisting. drilling and pumping ma chinerv has heeu ordered by the Je- rome Victor Extension Copper com pany for it's shaft adjoining the pro- ductive area of the United Verde mine at Jerome. The new equipment is en route and will he erected and in operation within four months. The Ierome Victor Extension is one of a number of properties in the Verde district where an ore discovery of i'm portance appears to be near at hand.
 like satisfactory condition at- taches to the nearby Arkansas & Ari- zona property. The west crosscut on the 1640-foot level has of late inter sected several stringers of sulphide Dre-the richest of the lot being hea- " with conner and fecked with pea
 Continued on Page 2