Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-17
OUR EASTERN NEIGHB0R.
0ochise County the Most Liberal
 Towards Public Schools.
8isbee Furnishes the Lifo Blood to COchise Courty-The Harvey LegiOns E ust be Victo-
 ricUs.
TOMBSTONE, Ariz.. Aug. 8, 1895.

i TOMBSTONE, Ariz.. Aug. 8, 1895. :; Cochise County, created in 1881,
 has seen many changes eiHce that date 1 The towns of Contention and Charles
 ton above Ben4on on tie San Pedro
 river are no longer the scenes of mining activity, bat masses of moldering walls ] inhabited principally by Hazards. Will
 COX, once a busy shipping centre foI i Globe, Thomas, San Car'os and other
 points on the Giia, now depends almost entirely on the cattle ranches along the Sulphur Spring valley. J. II. Norton
 and Soso Bros. are stll making money.
 They carry heavy stocks of goods. Geo.
 R4um captures the bulk of the cash
 from the cattle men in his popular re- sort. Wilcox has an excellent schOcl
 house and two churches, which are
 evidences of the intellectual and moral
 standard Of the inhabitants of the place.
 The Western Stockman published by
 Mir. Pugh is another evidence of intel lectuaiity and also of the fact that cattle raising Is aa important industry. The late rains have changed the appearance of the country, instead of the mirages, sea of verdure cheers the owner of the cattle herd, aud through the summer cloud be perceivea a beam of hope.
 The Sulphur Spring valley will some day be alive with cattle-and Wilcox the principal shipping point. From Wilcox 1 went to Benson to take the train to ths world renewed copper town Bisbee. The Arizona and South East ert railroad, is ths name of the read built by the Copper Queen company from Benson to Bishee It runs along the left bank of the San Pedro and parsllel ing the Arizona & New Mexico railroad to point near Fairbanks, where the A. & $. k. intersects the latter road and then runs iu a s0utheasterly direction to Bisbae. The train starts from Benson at lI:2O a. n. and reaches Bisbee at 3:20 p. m.
 The town of Bisbee is so named in honor of MT. Bisbee, the partner of MT. l.. Williams, ihe present foreman of the Copper Queen smeltars, and who is 1880 made the first location Tn that camp.
 From the town Of Bisbee flows the life blood of Cochise county. The in exhauetible supply of copper. will furn- ish work to several hundred persons for many years more. Copper mines are indeed Safer and furnish the greatest good to the greatest number. The town Is built on the side of the mountain and along deep srroyOs.
 The Copper Queen company has a superintendent in the person of Mir. Ben Williams who attends with as much diligence and faithfulness to the inter- este of the company IS to the comfort and welfare of the employees.
 The town is supplied with ice, electric light and good water-by the company at very low rates. The company contrib uted largely to build R school house which is fine four-rOom building well furnished and equipped, also a church, public library and spacious hall. The cCmpBny's store supplies the trade of the camp and some of the towns of SOno- "a.
 The ores of the mines of Bisbee con- tain large quantities of sulphur which gives the atmosphere about the town an uupleas8nt odor and made 1t somewhat destructive to animal and plant life, but the company Is at present erecting a smoke stack nearly 600 it. long to point near the top of the mountain from which 1t will be erected 60 feet high and thus carry the smoke and fumes beyond danger 10 the BIsbee people.
 Gam bling md drinking are the vices common to the people of mining camps and Bisbee Is not the exception. l noticed tt this place, that there IS s great differences in results from calling man dog iG the western style. A small man was so called by large man, the little man accepted the term as a | term of endearment; at another place, a drunken old man applied the same term to en able bodied miner, and WAS instan- l tly knocked down for trying to be on so familiar terms. The moral to be de- duced is-''Do not call man dog unless you are possessed of strong dynamite force"
 From Bisbee I went to Tombstone. This is now no longer an ironical term. The name is we'll applied and the epitaph should read: 'This once beauti-
 ful and prosperous city, was killed by
 the psrfdy of tW O parties who sacrified the nation to elect president.
 There are many fine residences and business blocks, quite number Of them empty. Tine Salvation group Of mines 1 near Tom bstone may prove to be the Salvation of the city. It is reported to be very wealthy camp but at present
 worked only in .very modest sort of l manGer. There are many miners pros pectng the mountains for high grade 1 ores that will pay to work at the present dis8dvan tages. The cattle interests help l Tombstone to sUme extent. The general and copious rains have covered the | ranges with grass. The school house at Tom bstOne is a fine twO-story building,
 weil furnished and equipped with every l thing needed. Prof. $. $. Ray, one of | the Ariz0na's lending teachers is the principal. Cockise county has very 1 comfortable and we'll equipped school ! houses. It is the most liberal county 1 in southern Arizona towards the pubic | schools in spite Of the hard times. The | writer joins the Cochlse county people in toe hope that Harvey shall carry the silver legions to victory over Horr and his followers. K. 1 It's Astonishing