Tombstone epitaph., 1890-04-19
THE COPPER CAMP.
How BiSbee Looks to Stranger-A Lively
 Town,

As one goes rattling along the fertile bottom lands of the San Pedro, which raise abundant crops wherever water is conducted onto them, and the train climbs ID on the higher mesa lands, and finally turns into the precipilous mountains, and listens to the labOred breathings of the locomotive as it hauls the train around the sharp curves and up the steep grades, and finally enters the narrow caiinn where the mine is situa ed, he wonders where in Sam Hill there can be enough room found to build a town. But as the train goes slowly up the cailon houses are seen perched here and there on the mountain sides, and fin ally, when the locomotive stops as though completely exhausted by the long, steep climb, and one steps from the car there is disclosed lively, bustling town, and tenderfoot from Tombstone has to be on the lookout lest he get run over.
 The main portion of the business is concentrated in two blocks in the widest portion of the canon, where are closely packed the store and offices of the company, the stores, hotels, lodging houses, restaurants and sa looms. Scattered up the side gulches and on the terraces on the mountain sides are places of business that can not find accommodation elsewhere, and residences, many of which pres ent d neat and attractive appearance. In some respects Bisbee Is more at tractivc after nightfall, when the streets are lighted up, and filled with q busy, restless throng, the twinkling of lights can be seen from the sides of the canon, the hiss of escaping seam and the deep humn:ing and drumming Of the blowers at the smelters can be heard. But tho great sight of the camp is the smelters, of which three are now in operation-"Jumbo" and two smaller ones. As one climbs the hill in the darkness, hears the roar of the furnaces, feels the vibra ion of the blowers and finally steps on the space graded out of the side of the mourn tain he is almost dazzled by the glare of the electric lights and molten rock and metal. Here everything is we'll ordered and systemaiized activity and rush. Men are seen emerging from and disappearing into the darkness, accompanied by flashes of almost binding light; others are seen jab- ping away at she smelters with long, pointed steel bars, which is followed by stream of molten, white hot rock or metal; hen another will come up, grab the slag pot, disappear into the night, his course marked by the glow of the molten rock in the pot; you cast your eye upward and you see faces peering down for an instant, lighted up by the glare, another man comes along, pushes aside slile, laL es Il look into the furnace. another pushes another slide and thrusts in his arm, a rush of cool air Is felt, the arm Is withdrawn uninj urel and the slide is pushed back with a sharp click. On going up stairs one wit nesses another scene of busy activity. Here are seen men rushing hither and thither with wheelbarrOw loads of ore and coke, others standing before the furnaces ceaselessly shoveling in the rock and fuel, and over the seelhing mass are seen dancing white. red and blue lights, the scene reminding one strongly of the word paintings of the Calvinistic Lell. Then take a walk out to where the slag is emptied, which is allowed 10 cool a short time before being dumped, during which a thin shell forms. As the half-egg shaped mass goes sliding down the side of the dump it bursts and the hills are lighted up by the momentary blaze of light.
 Over all is heard the hiss of steam, roar of the furnaces and the hum ming, drumming, drumming of the blowers, and the whole surroundings are instinct and vibrate with intense activity.
 BiShee is q typical Western mining town, built in canon, and the only way to get in or out is by going up or down the cleft in the mountains, and the whole business of the town re- wolves around and is dependent upon 'he mine There is the usual aggrega- ton Of humanity, among which are the good and bad of both sexvs-the virtuOus and the vicious. The town Is no better or no worse than thous- ands of like camps that have sprung into existence and died all over the