Bisbee daily review., 1903-03-29
NEWS FROM THE SHELTER CITY 
 

lucky number-broke wing. A Bis bee man always carries a bundle of bailing wire and pair of pliers, not to mention cork screw and some oth- CT things. so your correspondent got out and bound 1S's shiyered joints together, and we got into Douglas, but Conductor Marshall was afraid that the work would not hold good into Fl Paso. so he hired new en- zine in Douglas and started on east. Douglas is at her best just now, so far as climate conditions are con i cerDed. The humidity in winter makes it a little bit chilly, while along in July she is altogether too ardent to suit one of a cool dispassionate na- ture, but just now she is about the sweetest spot out side of the imperial commonwealth of Arkansas
 The first thing that strikes the , stranger in Douglas is the wonderful number and variety of big tubs that are mounted on wooden towers. You might imagine at first that it was an oil field or something, but soon settle down that it is nothing but Car rie Nation water elevated So that the old woman can sprinkle her lettuce | bed and other garden sass" while the ! old man is out on the section or spend | ing his precipitation in some other | honorable field The building boom | il Doug as is by no means out of sight. | It is painfully in evidence to the un- wary pedestrian. who travels a well worn trail up to town this morning and finds the skeleton of two story | lodging house squarely cross that trail as he goes back home to night. IL is assuming the proportions of an pes tive nuisance No one has any se- curity what ever. Over here where the boys play foot ball or base ball i yesterday, and where they have matched a game for next Sunday i there may a dozen boarding houses, i before the hour arrives in which to dc eide whether the Douglas Terribles, or | the Tombstone Howlers. or the Bis bee Invincibles are entitled to the l championship The whoe earth is piled with brick and iron and tufa, and 1 sand and mortar, and iron and glass. | till it is dangerous to walk about of a night One feels tempted to go back to some good old Mormon town where vigilant sentinel can only see one man and two dogs on the street in the course of forenoon. and where, when
 one story shack is built, the whole 1 population is there to see the thing
 done right, while they whittle up the scraps. And yet this building craze continues and from all appearances it
 will never cease in the case of Doug i las.
 The biggest thing in or about Doug las is the Copper Queen shelter. The hottest thing is the Calumet 6, Arizo-
 na smelter. The prettiest thing is the head quarters of the Atlas Mining ! Bureau. The funniest thing is the 1 three compartment coach of the Ma
 cozari railroad. with prince in one end and pauper in the other. The cutest thing is the suburban rail way train which looks like a piano box
 with windows in it pulling a row of baby carriages or a merry go-round go ing of on a tangent. The little sys- i tenn, however. does its work to perfec- tion and will be an important factor in
 the progress of Doug'as when utilized
 for street traffic.
 The Copper Queen smelter is still handicapped on account of not re- ceiving material. If it does not soon
 arrive, the approximate date set for blowing in the great plant will have to
 be postponed.
 Every day demonstrates that it's
 magnitude and capacity when com
 pleted, will be the wonder of the great
 west, and it is to be hoped that the ma
 terial is all in motion and will soon
 begin to arrive.
 The Calumet and Arizona is working
 to the Queens taste. Every day their
 slag dumps grow bigger and poorer
 Every day they manage to increase their capacity and get a higher per
 cent of values out of their ore. Very
 shortly, their capacity will be sudden ly doubled, and C. 6 A. stock will go
 to $500 in a jump.
 The richness of the c. & A. ore
 must be something phenominal, con
 sidering the output of blister copper for the amount of ore reduced
 Your correspondent has only had time to take a sly glimpse of Douglas since arriving. but will under.
 take to tell about the prosperous young city in detail after having had time to investigate.
 One. sure conclusion he can gather
 from his short stay in the Sunny
 City and that is, that he would give all
 he could rake. scrape, borrow or beg fer a good 9 foot business lot in