Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-19
THE BEST EVIDENCE.

THE BEST EVIDENCE.
 A newspaper is an unfailing index to the measure of prosperity existing in any city or town. Newspapers are as a rule as good as the place where they are published. If the newspapers home is inhabited by wide-awake. en- ergetic and progressive business men, it will be live and progressive jour nal; if a newspapers home is among the indolent and non-progressive, that fact will be made plain through its barren columns.
 As the best evidence of the advance ment of southern Cochise county, in- cuding Bisbee, Douglas, Tombstone and Naco, and that this corne- of Ari- zona is the home of an energetic and progressive people. it is only necessary to call attention to this issue of The Bisbee Daily Review. Sixteen pages crowded with advertisements, and for lack of space a number of our best business patrons were not solicited fsr any increase of space.
 Thirty months ago Dc- glas, which has taken so much space in this issue. was without a single inhabitant. The land on which that city now stands had only been applied for. and the ques- tion where the townsite should be laid otf had not been determined. Thirty months ago the Opera Club building, the Johnson block, the Let son block, the new Fair. the handsome building of the Bank of Bisbee, the gymnasium and the Copper Queen ho- tel. had only been commenced. Dur ing the last two years and half. hun dreds of residences have been erected in Bisbee, and our population has near ly doubled. One will rot wonder at the growth 4 Bisbee and Douglas if he will ac- quaint himself with the actual existing conditions. The great reduction plant of the Copper Queen Mining company now nearing completion al Douglas, the operation of the Calumet & Ari- zona smelters in that city, tells the story of the rapid progress made.
 That is not all. The E. P. & s. W. railroad has it's headquarters there, with its great roundhouses and ma Rhine shops, besides the springing up Bf new and important mining camps in sonora, tributary to Douglas. has given to that young city very large tAde, which will continue to grow larger.
 ( Two years and a half ago. Bisbee was practically a one-company camp. Since then money has been almost literally carted into the Warren min ag district, to be expended in the de- Felopment of this wonderful copper sountry. Whereas Bisbee merchants md tradesmen then depended alone n the employees of the Copper Queen company for trade. now they have the wage earners of the Calimet & Ari- zona. Calumet & Pittsburg, Lake Su perior & Pittsburg, Duluth & Pittsburg Junction Development company. Calu- & Cochise, Calumet & Bisbee, Urine & Arizona, Bisbee West,
 Consolidated, Quincy & Arizo-
 Ttage Lake & Bisbee, Copper
 Marquette & Arizona. Higgins
 'lment company, Golden Era,
 Sunday Esperanza, Modern
 company, Crescent Copper ,mpany. Bisbee & Arizona. Bisbee nsn and Pittsburg & Hecla Develop snt company. With only two or rec exceptions, all of these com suies are doing development work in Warren district; besides, consid- able work is being done in the Hua- lucas. with Bisbee as base for sup ;es. All these new companies are Employing from fifteen to fifty men. fIsit any wonder that Bisbee has had J rapid growth, with the coming of so tany new enterprises? The Review. nee the present management took hafge of it thirty months ago. has Mea1 kept mighty busy keeping up
 the procession.
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