Tombstone epitaph., 1902-10-05
A REVIEW OF THE
 BANEER COUNTY
A Scene of Activity aud Pro
 gress In All Sections
A VERY INVITING FIELD.

From the northern end of tbe county to the extrem, southern boundary line, there is one continual wave of improvement going oD, mills and smel,ers are being erected, mines opened up, new railroads being bull! and new cities being laid out, where, but A few years ago the coy ote mst, his home. Ia the Dos Csbezss di-- trict and in the vicinity Of old Fort Bowie, capital has been coming in and taking hold of mining property and today there r. five men working there where one was working siI mouths ago. A Cochiss, the little stsion is moving rapidly forward, a townsite has been laid out and lots are being sold rapidly and subs,sn,isl buildings erected. Colorado capital i-ts are already on tn, ground making arrangements for the erection of 100 ton smelter, vhIl- the side
 
 for she Y.qui River & pa,it, Rail. road, which will b. startei from that station in q lew weeks. A, P-aroe considerable inprovsmsnI is being made and parties owning claims there are getting ready to open them up as fast ss the railroad will give them s1 opportunity to ship their ores. The Com mmonweslth company is keeping it's full qnots of men em oloyei and the mill turning out its regular qrtn'i,y of bullion :. A,opg the northern end o' the Dr.- goons there are DO less shan ten camps where miners are empl ,yei and are opening up sIUi p opersies which will become p'oducer. io the course of the next few m Nnths.
 At Benson, the railway center of the countv, the wave of prosperity i- plainly nouced Th4 new territorial reform sch pol, built of wtit, tufs, makes an excellent impression :. The Empire SmeltinE com 1sny are unloading several carloai- of m, chin- cry for their GU to sm ltsr, and the ;. P. company has large forcs of men st work building several large | oil tanks, Grading on the Ph panix & Eastern road north from there is 70 bs st.rte l in few weeks, winch will make considerable improvement iu the business Of ths iowa. The country oorth along the San P ,dro is op ming up into good mining section aud a number Of claims are being developed.
 OG tine San Pedro river the ranch CTS have had s very prosperous year, sui their crops have yielded them | good returns. Tons of fresh vegs- table, have been raised an shipped 10 Bi-bAe, Nsco, Csnanes q d other points, but have not nearly filed the dem aud for the green goo Is snd she farmers are aow getting their fields ready for sprios when nearly twice ss m Ich ground will be used for this purpose 8. was during the pact year. In the southesstsrn part of the county including Bisbee, N4co. Doug. les perhaps the grestest amount of improvement has been made. The population of Bisbee hAs in gre Ised nearly thoussni souls during the past six months. The opening U, of mining properties outside of thoss held by the Copper Queen people has beeu the direct csu.s of this |. The Modern, C,lumst < He cls |, Calumet & Pittsburg, South Bisbee, Cochise and Cop per Glsnce com. psnies are all ct work developing their holdinss and employing sisrge number of men, and she claim, are all showing up exceedingly we'll. At Naco the building of large building blocks is going on and vast improve. msnts being made. The travel to and from the C.nsness makes the border town lively and at nights the streets are filled with people. Doug i.s perhaps has made the largest stride of any of Cochise's cities dur the past few m )nths and nov boa of nearly 2000 inhabitants. The smelters Of the Calumet people and the Copper QIeen company are rapidly nearing completion. while street railway will be in operation within ninety dsys. A large number of busiu ss blocks are going up. while residences innumersble are beginning to brighten up the inside streets.
 Iu cur own city the improvements being made are brought bsfoss the