Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-04
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tory of the two great municipalities of the southwest When the special train so generously rendered by the Fl Paso and Southwestern railway to the body of representative business men of Fl Paso, comes to stop at the station in Bisbee, many of these gentlemen, captains of industry in the Texas metropolis, will become for the first time acquainted with the ''Bisbee spirit" that spirit of enterprise, vim and ambition which is so rapidly placing the name and city of Bisbee before the attention of the world.
 Practically virgin territory in com nercial advantage is now open to our eastern neighbors, which heretofore has been almost the sole property of our adjacent state of California. The completion of, and wiping out the dss- tances heretofore existing between Fl Paso and Bisbee, brings us to know something of the resources, advan- tages and attractions of the former beautiful and growing city in western Texas.
 From a population in 1880 of less than 500 this unique city has grown to 3O,OOO in 1902. Probably one of the first things that will impress the close observer of Fl Paso, will be the en- ergy. activity and generally youthful appearance of its business men, few having reached the two score years and ten. Upon this may be based the steady. constant and substantial growth, together with the variety and extent of it's resources.
 Surrounded by inexhaustible min eral wealth; standing at the doorway to the great southwest of our own country, as well as the incalculable opportunities of old Mexico, into which the capital of America is pour. ing in unlimited quantities, Fl Paso is the great gateway between the east and north to the west and southwest, and coupled with it all, climate un- excelled in any part of the world, while its geographical position is cer- tain to make it one of the great com mercial and railroad centers of the American continent.
 It would seem as though Dame Nature in the Alpha of the past, had considerably foreseen the enc; mity of Americas future and selected the site of our sister city, as the only pos sible point upon which might be erect ed a great city.
 Already fourteen great trunk rail way lines, trans-continental in import ance, center in the city Of Fl Paso, whose initial points are the Atlantic, and terminals the Pacific ocean and gulf of Mexico
 It requires but a walk about the spa' cious streets and avenues of Fl Paso, to note the hundreds Of artisans in ev- cry class of labor; the sound of axe and hammer, as dwellings and com mercial warehouses in course of con struction are apparent on every hand.
 It requires no particularly brilliant observer, as he gIances ct the mercan- tile establishments of this hub of the southwest, to have impressed upon his mind, the energy which is carrying forward a growth phenomenal but nat ural. For years Bisbee and the extra ordinary territory of Cochise county, rich in growing cities and towns, has paid tribute to Hong hauls,'' delic- ioGs arbitraries," and "unexampled de lays in their shipments of commod- ities as they sought and contributed to the markets of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
 A new era has dawned- The Bis bee spirit" has prevailed. With in domitabIe will, the Fl Paso and Souths western railway has carried the great est mining town of the southwest by a little eight hour ride, to the natural basis of supply for this territory. The iron bands of transportation have turned the attention to the metropolis of al the southwes:--the distributing center for all this section.
 It is to be regretted that our space is so limited as to forbid more extend ed mention of Fl Paso as municipal ity, her handsome hotels; the banking interests, the schools, public buildings, parks and particularly of her business