Arizona republican., 1902-06-08
A PROSPEROUS TRIO
The Great Industrial Awakening in
 Southern Arizona.
Special correspondence of The
 Republican,

Special correspondence of The Republican,
 The tide of prosperity which came down the San Simon and Sulphur | Springs valleys year ago has finally | broken ever their banks and flooded the surrounding country for hundreds of miles, where few short months ago | the ferocious jack rabbit turned upon i lis pursuer and tie deadly cotton tail i lurked in the greasewOod. Everything | from an \ tent to four-story brick covers the earth with eternal shade. l With the advent of the railroad every species of enterprise has filled the 1 country and broken over the national boundary into Mexico. The San Pedro river is the only thing the Mexican off cials ever failed to collect duty from ! for crossing the line. Naco and Doug | las. which might appropriately be 1 called the children of Bisbee. are reach ing to the front rank of Arizona cities with rapid strides. Douglas especially begins to think it is bigger than it's 'p&p" and if they keep on driving nails 1 there at the present rate there is TO predicting it's future.
 Douglas. besides numerous elegant | buildings erected by the company and ! others. is g veritable forest of rafters and unfinished buildings. The com | pany's depot, with our esteemed friend, ! C. A. Brow. in charge is perhaps the l finsst in the territory. An auditorium of which any city in the territory could afford to feel proud. has been com i pleted by MT. Douglas and presented 1 to the town because they named the l baby after him. 4 company ware house about 50Xf3G feet is already full .-r +r,,
 tion for the largest store in Arizona is 1 completed. Other splendid improve ments too numerous to mention have i been made. including the setting out of a fine park which has also been given by the company to the town. The eX- | tent and variety of improvements made i and contemplated by the company irl and around Douglas forbid the ide;i that this fine municipal enterprise could be anything but successful. The. 1 town enjoys an fnexhaustibie supply of good water and there is no reason why il cannot become another Fl Paso. Tue principal disadvantage under which
 Douglas labors is the unreasona ble
 figure at which real estate is held but
 this difficulty will naturally adjust it. self in the near future. Douglas is
 about half a mile from the Mexican ! ilIlG anu q sOi pL tuStOlll IOuSP IS SUD-
 posed to exist on either side Douglas
 Is destined to be a city. but is better
 place just now! for carpenters and
 builders than for business and profes-
 sfonai men.
 Naco Is . hot ,i.tle number on the na-
 tional line where the railroad crosses
 on it's way to Cananea. It is the ten
 derfoot tourists delight. the gambier'e
 paradise and ar all-round interesting
 place to visit. \ place where the
 butchers-Cn the Mexican side-tlo their
 butctering in uniforms at the rate of
 q dcbe a butch. They stab about five
 bulls to death there every Sunday and
 it constitutes quite an interesting per-
 formance, besides furnishing meat for
 the Mexican army
 Of the three towns forming the re- lspectiVe points on this triangle of pros
 perfty grand old I3isbee is marching
 right along. There is no other camp in
 the territory where white labor has
 received such a measure Of recognition
 as in Bisbee. where libraries and hos
 pitals and gymnasiums and every va
 rIety of pleasant. instructive and : healthful recreation has been placed
 freely a the disposal of the boys. Bis
 bee will never forsake the lead. The
 city wifi soon enjoy an adequate water
 supply through the company's pipe
 line from the vicinity of Naco. when
 the last requisite will have been sup
 piled for making it model town
 The Fl Paso and SOuthw estern IS
 prc-eminently white mans system.
 it was a fortunate inspiration indeed
 which moved the Copper Queen people
 to convert their copper into steel and
 open up the New Arizona from Bisbee
 South. The liberality shown by these
 people to patrons. their wonderful pub lie spirit and above all their treatment of employees. has justly endearad them to the general public, standing as it q does in vivid contrast to some othe.. 5 systems in the territory They have the best accommodations. the smooth 5 est track and mai ke the best time of any road in the territory without We ]. should mention the g. F. p. 6e P on an equal footing. Everything considered Z the southeastern section of Arizona, 4 which has heretofore been classed as . an irreclaimable desert. has stepped 5 promptly to the front as one of the most promising belts within our lines. q and with the completion of the smelt- ] CTS. round houses and machine shops 5 al Douglas, it will have formed a little I industrial center of it's oWn
 FRANK ALEY. ? June D. 1902