Arizona republican., 1902-06-10
BOOMING BISBEE
What a Stranger Thinks Of the Big
Copper Camp.

Bisbee. Ariz.. June 6.-(Special cor
respondence of The Republican.)-It
takes a newcomer to size Bisbee up.
Many of its most remarkable features
have ceased TO impress the old-timer
with that vividness necessary to an
adequate description.
She is the typical, rustling, roaring.
booming. permanent white mans min
ing camp of Arizona. No shut-downs
for coke or water, and rarely for re-
pairs. Everybody has absolute conf
dence in the permanence of the mines
and the integrity of the management.
1t is eminently an upright camp, espe-
cially in a Typographical sense, the
residences rising one above the other
like seats in the balcony of the Tabor
Grand. When Mrs. Brown raises
pumpkins in her front yard they are
liable to roll down into Mrs. Smiths
kitchen. but nothing is lost, as Mrs.
Jones, who lives above Mrs. Brown,
involuntarily supplies that lady in the
same way. Only The top row suffers.
All this insures an abundance of
fresh air along with the buoyant ex-
perience of climbing a few flights of
aerial stair steps. The effect is pic
turesque, after all. and the people seem
to forget their slight Inconvenience
in the reflection that they have rich.
prosperous and permanent camp.
The city government, while cncoun-
tering the usual category of inevitable
snags. by rare reason, patience and
justice. are evolving a perfect system,
satisfactory to a vast majority of the
population, while the justice courts
torial penal provisions to assist the
corporation in preserving good order.
Judge Williams, with 200 pound con-
stable at either elbow, is a power in
the eyes of the transgressor, like unto
a glittering Scimitar of retribution.
attended a session of the township
court yesterday wherein several unfor-
Inmates were required to explain the
whereasness of their misconduct.
There were Paddy DeGob and Timothy
Grove,
And the omnipresent Jonath Doe,
And a batch from the hog ranch, don't
you know;
And they all stood up in motley row
And begged "Hizzonor' to let them 60
And they'd never be naughty again,
no. no,
But he asked if they had any cause to
show
Why they shouldn't be sent to the hall
below
And roast out their salvation.
Then their eyes with sullen defiance
were lit,
And their silence construed as an an
swer of nit
And the court thought the matter over
| a bit,
And finally sent the entire kit
| To their proper destination.
| The court above referred to is the
swiftest teacher of the English Ian
guage on record. One sweet-scented
tropical maid bearing the eupho-
NOUS cognomen of 'Lupe,'' with the
traditional obstinacy of the meek-eyed
burro. rolled her languorous eyes over
| at the court and refused to talk Eng
lish. but couple of hours reflection
in the somber depths of the granite
cooler Strengthened out the convolu-
lions of her murky intellect and she
sent the court word that if released
! she would talk all kinds of English
The Transformation was magical
| A stranger can never master the
cardinal points in Bisbee until he
climbs one of those high points south
| OF town and sees little Naco off to the
southwest as pretty as a peck of string
beans in an old maids lap: then the
| directions are Strengthened out in an
| instant
| Water has heretofore been one of the
scarcest commodities in Bisbee. 1t
has been delivered in canvas saddle
| bags and sold by the bushel, some
| times by the peck. Few people were
able to buy a bushel at one time 1t
sold according to quality-that is, the
amount of moisture it contained. Sixty
per cent is about as high as it ever
runs. Sometimes it gets so dry it won t
run al all. The new pipe line is about
completed from Naco. however. when
they will begin to retail real wet water
in buckets instead of sacks
| The outlook for this grand old camp
Is finer than ever. The progress of
Douglas only contributes to the pros
perity of Bishee, and both will surprise
| the natives in the near future This
is not one of those camps where they
advertise for miners today and next
week draft them off. before they have
had time to pay for a new suit of
digging clothes. When it comes right
down TO business Bisbee is the only
spud in the pot. Alley.
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