Bisbee daily review., 1902-11-02
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The Ratriias Rip Roaring Mining Bet, Visited by Rain and a Re- view Reporter


 view Reporter Praise the Lord in general and the Fl Paso and Southwestern in partic- ular for the use of the latter's ties during these warm election days. In visiting the great chain of mining camps from Bisbee to the Bisbee West inclusive, one starts out at the Copper Queen shelter. The Queen sme'ter is any but May Queen in appear ance. She looks as tough as a hobo who has just crawled out of an Fl Paso and Southwestern crude oil tank. but she is the hottest old girl at the baile, so hot in fact, that she is the envy of the prince of retribution The i frs thing that impresses one is the jam of copper bars piled up like ties at the foot of timber chute Some smelters have an extravagant capaci- ty the Copper Queen has an ordinary capacity with an extrravagant output i which looks good to share holder It is great to watch those old mas ters of mechanical science make con yerters and jackets and everything else over until the original article is entirely disp'aced. and the substitute
  The machine shops can turn out anything from an overcoat button 10 car wheel. There is no sending away for anything but empty cars The wholesale and profligate use of mud in the lining of converters is the only thing that can ever compass the downfall of the Copper Queen. The smelter- is the finest pace to cf de your eye which has ever been located Leaving the smeiter you get pass from Superintendent Shapeley over the Copper Queen slag line, with En- gineer Gallagher at the throttle. You | trave' at the rate of seventeen miles al hour, more up and down than end ways till you reach the terminus near the Holbrook. The slag line was abundantly supplied win rolling stock yesterday, it being the day after Hal lowe'en. The track was covered wit, everything from a baby carr.,ge to a Red Cross ambulance.
 The new slag dump has big crack 1 in it about thirty feet back of the jump off, indicating that it wants to | dive inso the wash, but Supe-intend- ent Shapeley anchored it to a tele- dpu pOie WtLu d auC IT | is al right indefinitely.
 Al the Holbrook we crawl up to the saw mill where they can turI out any thing from toothpick 70 democratic | flag pole, just according to the way they yank the line. Then the Hol brook elevated narrow guage runs over your head with Perrin Prather and Roy Arxie as engineer, carrying the rare ol sulphrets from the shafts | to the bin.
 The most prominent figure in the hoist house is Solid Old Godfrey. who has pulled levers in Bisbee for seven i teen years, and never killed a man | by the way he never tried to. Now comes Jack Taylor. the shift boss. happy cartoon is on the wall repre- senting Jack milking away under | 'ong horned COW in Texas, nd the woE- derful transformation when he is car l rying the sample sacks to the assay office in Bisbee. Jack may be presi- dent of the slag line ye<-
 I was next introduced to 'Laggi1' I Truck, Harris, timberman in the Hoi- brook -Laggin' Truck" wears No 13 shoe. not because his foot is big i but because the formation is soft Or the back side of a campaign card, tackled up on the gallows frame ap- pears the following dedicating to Lag gin Truck: N
 "Oh. Laggin' Truck. oh, Laggin Truck. Though on your little. job you're stuck,
 You'd better quit and learn to muck. | Oh Iaggin' Truck, Oh Laggin. Truck You're not very Timber man, You'll never be a timber man.
 Oh Laggin' Truck, oh Laggin' Truck. Next the Spray looms up. She looks like a shot tower little way on. She is pulling up ore and burying timber at a frightful rate. John Wood and Patsy Harrington shove the little iron wagons from the shaft out to the bin and dump the rich old truck into the big slots under the track. The Spray pipe laying gang are mighty good looking fellows if it were not flor their faces. Stewart heads the push, and the following poetic gem is dedicated to the combination:
 i''The Spray pipe squeeze,
 The Spray pipe squeeze.
 They're always at their bloody ease. 2 They never roast. they never freeze. II want to join the Spray pipe
 squeeze"
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