Weekly journal-miner., 1919-04-30
FOUNDRY ON VERDE IS
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Special Correspondencc.)

Special Correspondence
 1 JEROME, April 23.-Moonshining in the Verde district received solar plexus blow on Sunday when Dep uties Fred Hawkins, Johnny Mund5 and Joe Cook raided two stills on the river below Cottonwood and arrest ed the operators.
 It has been evident for long time that both raisin and corn wnis- key has been made somewhere in the neignborhood and the officers have been conducting a quiet invesEga- ton for several weeks. Their sus- picions pointed to two men named Pell and Satterlee and another, a neighbor of the ones mentioned, nam ed H. w. Jones. Last Friday night the three officers began watch on the premises of the suspected par ties and this was continued until Sunday.
 Pell and Satterlec live on the other side of the Verde river, about two miles below Cottonwood and near kthe "big bend" Jones lives on this side Of the stream and in the same locality, his place being almost op- posite that owned by Pell and Satter lee.
 Three automobiles were observed at the Pell and Satterlee place and it was discovered that one of these belonged to Jones. The men made one trip to Cottonwood and Verde and were followed by Deputy flaw kins, but there was no evidence that they had any contraband cargo with them. It is supposed that Jones saw the officer Investigating the cars for he left suddenly on Sunday morning and raced for his home with the of ficer not far behind.
 Well Fertilized
 In the meantime. Deputies Munds and Cook had been making some in .vestigations of both premises and be- came convinced that they were on the right track as the ground around the Jones cabin for distance of seventy-five yards was filled with "spent' raisins that had been buried not more than six or seven inches deep.
 Well Hidden
 The first search was made at the Pell and Satterlee place and resulted in the discovery of the most clevcrly hidden still-room that could be imag- ined.
 The still-room was eXcavatcd at a. distance of twenty feet from the well, its roof being about four feet below the surface of the ground The room is l0X10 feet inside and a little more than six feet high.
 It can be reached only by tun- ncl which runs from the well and the entrance to which is some twelve feet from the curb of the we'll. The op orators were careful not to have a windlass, ladder or other visible means of entrance to this tunnel and | evidently reached it by climbing down | a rope.
 Ventilation and the escape of fumes from the still are secured by a stack running from the roof of the subter ranean chamber and, to afford plausible excuse for the existence of the stack, it was run through a forge standing on the ground immediate ly above the still-room. Incidentally it was by means of the stack and forge that the officers got. the first hint of what was below.
 A Strange Stack
 Hawkins noticed that the stack was not built in the usual way, but that hole was cut in it to admit the smoke from the forge. This seemed unusual to say the least and ne push cd a wire through the portion of the stack that was below the forge open ing. Even then. things seemed regu- lar enough, for the pipe was appar- cntly filled with sand almost up to the level Of the forge. The officer showed his wire far enough to cor- vince him that the pipe extended well below the surface of the ground and finally worked it down until the ,nd struck d piece of wood.
 Sinks Prospect Shaft
 He then began d little mining on his own account and sunk a 4-foot shaft back of the forge which soon | uncovered the roof of the subtcrra- lcan still-room. He cut through this md entered the chamber when the method of access through the well be anne evident.
 Tools of the Trade Tn the stilI-room were two barrels 7f fcrmentiug mash. four sacks of -aisius. a considerable quantity of tracked corn and brand new still I ,f the finest construction. A further " carch disclosed 1O-gallon cask of d yhiskey buried in the garden and | everal bottles in the house. It is he opinion of the officers that this | till was just preparing to do busi- b css on a large scale. Deputy Haw- Y inS. who knows good mining when I