Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-26
THE COPPER CAMP.
How Risbee Looks to a Stranger---A e Lively Town.

As one goes rattling along the fer tile bottom lands of the San Pedro, which raise abundant crops wher- ever water is conducted onto them, and the train climbs upon the higher mesa lands, and finally turns into the precipitous mountains, and listens to the labored breathings of the locomo- tive as it hauls the train around the sharp curves and up the steep grades, and finally enters the narrow canon where the mine is situated, he won ders where in Sam Hill there can be enough room found to build town. But as the train goes slowly up the canyon houses are seen perched here and there on the mountains sides, and finally, when the locomotive stops as though completely exhausted by the long, steep climb, and one steps from the ear there is disclosed q lively, bustling town, and tender foot from Tombstone has to be on i the lookout lest he gets run over.
 The main portion of the business is concentrated in two blocks in the widest portion of the canyon, where are ] closely packed the store and offices of the company, the stores, hotels, lodg- ing houses, restaurants and saloons. 1 Scattered mp the side gulches and on l the terraces on the mountain sides are places of business that cannot 1 find accommodation elsewhere, and residences, many of which present neat and attractive appearance. In some respects Bisbee IS attractive after nightfall, when the streets are lighted up, and filled with 3 busy, restless throng, the twlnkhng ot lights can be seen from the sides of ! the canyon, the hiss of escaping steam and the deep humming and thrum- ming of the blowers at the smelters can be heard. But the 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- ton of the blowers and finally steps on the space graded out of the side of the mountain, he is almost dazzled by the glare of the electric lights and molten rock and metal. Here every thing is well ordered and systematized activity and rush. Men are seen emerging from and disappearing into the darkness, accompanied by flashes of almost binding light; others are seen jabbing away at the smelters with long, pointed steel bars, which is followed by stream of molten, white hot rock or metal; then another will come up, grab the slag pot, dis appear 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 slide, takes look into the furnace, another pushes another slide and thrusts in his arm, a rush of cool air is felt, the arm is with drawn uninjured and the slide is pushed back with sharp click. On going up stairs one witnesses 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 seething mass are seen dancing white red and blue lights, the scene reminding one strongly of the word paintings of the Calvinistic hell Then stake q walk out to where the slag is emptied, which is allowed to cool short time before being dumped, during which 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.
 Bisbee is typical Western mining town, built in 8 canyon, 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 the mine. There is the usual aggrega- ton of humanity, among which are the good and bad of both sexes-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 Pacific slope. Superintendent Ben Williams, ably assisted by his brother Mir. Lewis Williams, use all their in- fuence on the side of law, and it is largely due to their efforts that good order has always been maintained.
 The town has three charitable or ganizations-the Knights of Pythias, Patriotic Order Sons of America and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, all of which have good membership and are doing well.-Episaph.
 Last Tuesday Senor 4. Sanches, editor of the "La Verdad' a Spanish paper published in Phenix, returned 1 from Sonora, where he has been for l the past week as an agent for poor and worthy Mexican families living in Arizona, or in any portion of the United States, with a view of their return to Sonora, Mexico. This removal question has been agitated for some time past. Mir. Sanchess informed the Record that he had met with every i encouragement from the Governor of Sonora, and he will now go to the City of Mexico to perfect arrange ments with the general Government. The proposition is for the return of poor and needy Mexicans, to Mexico. Lands are to be selected on which to establish the colonists and sufficient funds will be appropriated by the Government to defray the expenses for their return and also to provide for the necessities for Q term of two years, after which time it is expected they will be self supporting.-Nogales