JEROME is in the Black Hills of ARIZONA.  It overlooks the Verde Valley 5000 feet above sea level.  JEROME is about 100 miles North of PHOENIX.   In 1876 it became a huge mining town on Cleopatra Hill.  By 1884 the price of copper had gone down 50% and the mining stopped.  By 1900 mining had started again and  was one of the largest mines in the world.  JEROME was growing now with a post office, school, churches, telephone service, and  electric lights.  The area had 3000 miners by 1916.  From 1876-1953 the mine in JEROME was thought to have produced about 33 million tons of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc; this made the mine…