Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-04
PROSPEROUS DOUGLAS.
What Has Been Done by Her Progress sive Citizens During the Past year. Wonderful Strides to be Made During the Coming Year

! l Number of new houses built in Douglas in 1902, 1926.
 l Number of new houses building but
 not finished, 322.
 Bank clearings in Douglas for year
 1902. S1.25U.000.
 Number of telephones placed in
 Douglas during year 1902, 95 There are but very few people in
 the southwest who observe things closely enough to realize how prosper ous Douglas is. how fast it is growing, and how much the vast mineral and agricultural country tributary to Doug las is filling up with people and de velopng. When one starts out to- gather statistics as to the progress
 made by Douglas in her various lines he is astonished. The rapid growth of the line city within the past year has truly been phenominal, and yet you cannot find a single man, woman, or child in Douglas who will say their town has had boom. It has been steady continuous growth and by no means unnatural in any way. The moving of the reduction works of the Copper Queen and the location of the large smelters of the Salumet & Ari- i zona together with the making of | Douglas the headquarters and termin- al of the different departments of the Fl Paso & Southwest R. R., the ship. ping of large numbers of cattle and the supplying of the Sonora and Ari- zona mining comapnies with mining and other supplies, has all had it's share towards making Douglas the
 coming metropolis of the southwest. | Briefly below is given a few statis- tics gathered from the different sources and shows conditions as they actually exist in the new town which bids fair to become a rival of Denver within few years.
 | Twelve two story brick and 2S one story buildings a6orn the principal
 streets of Douglas.
 I Six large mining companies operat- l ing in Sonora have their head offices here.
 The amount of money loaned to
 the residents of Douglas to build their | homes by various loan companies is
 something over S3U0.000. The amount of insurance in force on ! property of all kinds in Douglas is ] s650. 0.000.
 There are F passenger trains daily
 and 15 freight trains in and out of
 Douglas every 24 hours.
 The Fl Paso & Southwest railroad
 handled over 500000 tons of freight during the year 1902
 : The International Land and Improve ment company sold real estate to the
 amount of near S600.000 since the
 town first began.
 6o- f7c fall l improvements in the town of Douglas expending something like S75,O0O for labor and materials during 1902 and
 will expend nearly dougle this sum during the coming year. l Douglas possesses an up to date water works and telephone system,
 and will have finished during 1903 an electric light and cold storage plant.
 a new teleDhone building with an ad- ditional 100 phones, a street railway which will run to the two smelters and
 make belt line through the city.
 The Copper Queen is erecting a large store which will be the finest
 of it's kind in the southwest.
 Douglas has now three pay days
 which come a week apart during the
 month averaging S125.000 which is put in circulation and stimulates
 every avenue of trade.
 No city in Arizona twice the size of ] Douglas can show any such remark
 able progress and wonderful growth.
 The early organization of a Commer-
 cial club by the business men is under l: way and is meeting with success and
 will he the means of bringing many industries and large amount of capi !. tai to Doug'as and the entire south. , eastern section of Arizona and north. . ern Sonora.
 The two banks have only been in
 business less than six months but have
 handled a million and quarter dol
 lars which goes to show the financial ] condition of Douglas.
 Douglas is considered by financial . men as a good safe town. the insur l ance and loan companies have all faith ] in the new city and send their agent. - from different fields to Douglas to ge [ a share of this business. There is nc feeling of uncertainty about the new : smelter city. Everyone who can pos '- sibly do so is and has invested some !. thing in a lot or two and no piece o J property located in the town today
 can be bought for less than twice 1t
 original cost
 The opening up of the cooper belt il T which are situated the mines of tn, $ Copper Glance. Bisbee Consolidated ]. Marquette & Bisbee and Solomon y Springs will mean much to Douglas e The country is like the mineral bel D in Sonora below Douglas easy of ac o cess by rail from Douglas and supplie e coming from the east can be handle t-1 through Douglas and delivered t