Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-04
Though Some Snow Has Fall len in Yavapai It Has Not Interfered With Extensive Work This Winter.
VERDE DISTRICT WORK
 SENT RAPIDLY AHEAD
Weeds Report on Verde Gen. tral and Verde Apex Look ed Upon As Good Omen for Balance of District.
By William P. De Wolf.


 PRESCOTT, Feb. 3.-An open win ter. with but little snow. no rain to date. and plenty of sunshine, permits continuous mining operations through out Yavapai county at a season of the year when, as a rule. certain of the outlying sections are inaccessible Most of the trails are open 10 tral- fife, and communication with the vari- ous camps and with the center of trade at Prescott continues unbroken- Mine and mill machinery goes for ward 10 it's destination with but lit- the delay. and mining engineers and investors travel the hills without diff ficulty. In fact. save for thin and threadbare blanket of snow. there is little evidence of winter in this sec ton Of Arizona.
 The favorable climatic conditions are especially advantageous to the mining men of the Verde district. where score or more new copper mining enterprises were financied in the fall of 1916 Delay in shipping mine machinery ordered several months ago by a number of these con- panies caused II to be laid down at Clarkdale at a time when the trails are generally cIogged with snow and are moro or less impossible. Winters reversal of form is. therefore. more than ordinarily welcome to the miners and teamsters of that section. The trails of recent construction are some what soft" in spots. but not suffi- ciently so To prevent freighting over them.
 Plant Being Installed.
 \ rock slide on the trail leading to the Pittsburs-Jerome property over the acreage of the Ventura Hill Com pany. occasioned some delay in land ing the plant of machinery purchased jointly by the Venture Hill and Verde Apex companies. at the dOuble-con- partment shaft that is being sunk on the endline of the Socrates claim of the first mentioned and the sideline of the BlackhoTse claim of the last men toned company The delay was par ticularly annoying as it followed one of much longer duration caused by a mistake Of the shippers in billing the machinery to Clarsdale. Artan- sas. instead of to Clarkdale. Arizona However. the plant is now being in- h. afs the middle of February. IL consists of g 6O-horse power compressor and a 25-hOrse power hoist.
 Several months ago the manage ments of the Venture Hill and Verde Apex companies entered into a work ing agreement whereby the two prop critics are tO be developed by means of a single shaft. This shaft has been sunk bv hand depth of fifty feet. Work therein has been discontinued until such time as the two-company plant of machinery is in commission. In the meantime the Venture Hill tun- nel-sCene of an encouraging strike of copper sulphides in the latter part of l9l6-will be driven along the Ven ture Hill ledge to intersection with a cross ledge on the Verde Apex es- tate. Thereafter work will be con fined to the shaft A depth of 500 feet is the objective. where the shaft will probably tap the cross ledge on its dip. The Venture Hill tunnel is now about 30 feet beyond that com pany's endline and is about equi-dis- tant from the ledge intersection. Cop per sulphideS arc practically continu- ous therein for the last SO feet.
 Receives Dr. Reeds O. X.
 Plans are being made 10 list tho shares of the Venture Hill. Verde Apex and Verde Central Mines. Inc,
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