Cochise review., 1900-06-04

.hyperbole to that statement
 nothing of the irresponsible boosting of the provincial spouter. The writer has been in every mining caml of importance from British Columbia to Mexico, and as q consequence, has some small knowledge of the sub- ject. The Park, Leadville, Cripple Creek, Victor, Creede, Butte, the camps of the San Juan and the Occur d'Alenes are all famous, but in none of them may one find the equitable man agement that characterizes the Copper Queen. In Butte, Butte the giant among mining camps, you may see whole armies of burly, wide-shouldered men marching to and from work, you may gaze on gigantic engines. that lift skips, or enormous ore buckets, from q depth of two thousand feet without a sound louder than the gentle boom of their exhausts; you may stand in the main street of city of sixty thousand souls and see hundred mines, dozens of them with larger hoists than the Czar or Holbrook. But in those mines men are driven as teamsters drive their mules, the lash of profane insult and abuse is ever curling about the body of their dead pride, and their lives are held in no greater value than those of gnats. One hundred men is the hola- caust offered up yearly by the mines of the city in the Rockies. In Colorado as well as in Butte, the workmen die when the cold comes as sheep die with the rot. Pneumonia for two months in the year is epidemic. In the Park one works for wage more in keeping with the factory serfs of the east. than with the confident, manly, well-paid men of against them the same objection that applies to Butte: brutal overseers and winters of deadly cold. Jerome is the greatest mine considered merely as q mine--of them all, and it's situation and climate are ideal; but it is an in- dustrial plague spot. It's wholly cir cumstance made owner, w. A. Clark, loses more money yearly through the inetficiency of his managers than would suffice to pay all of his numerous Je- rome employees living wage. Bisbee with it's enterprising business men, it's we'll paid workmen, it's generous man. agers and it's equable climate, is the most desirable of the worlds mining camps. In fact, there are only two large camps in the United States where men receive three and half dollars for days work Butte and Bisbae. There are few places where that wage obtains, but they are merely bivouacs, mountain eyries where men herd in bunk-houses and eat food that would give an army mule indigestion.
 The mine that has created Bisbee was first discovered by George Warren in the late seventies. The site of the present town was known to the scouts and prospectors acquainted with the Mule mountains as Mule pass. It was an Apache trail. High up the noun tain side, where now yawns the Queen cut, cavernous opening in the lime stone, seemingly too large to have been excavated by man, George Warren found an outcropping of rich copper ore. Whether he traced it by float, after the intuitive manner of his kind, or stuck his pick into it just through curiosity, the historians of this region say not; but certain it is that had he not stumbled upon that opening in natures treasure chest, what is now the fifth largest copper mine and the best camp industrially in the wide world would be given over to buzzards aud Apaches.
 The first owners of the Queen were Reilly, Ballard and Martin. They brought small smelter from Tucson and set it where the Copper Queen store now stands. They owned two claims, one an extension of the other along the mountain side. The ore bodies palpably pitched back into the noun tain, but the Reilly, Ballard x Martins bank account was growing us fast as their slag dump and they could not be induced to acquire, at a ridiculously low figure, the adjoining claims. About this time Professor James Douglas sacandered out this way, looking for minfng property. He saw the condition of things in Mule pass and his shrewd Scots judgment told him there was ore farther up the mountain. He pur- chased what was known as the Atlanta