Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-15


 ure last week of a visit to Cochise county It was his first visit to that section in nearly twenty years, and the changes wrought in that time are mar vicious. Instead of punching a burro or taking a weary drive across the desert, one now can ride in palace cars and be served with cool and refreshing drinks, or an excellent meal. while passing over the country al forty miles an hour. It is annoying to an old tim CT to hear some Johnny-come-lately kick because the train is ten minu'es late, or because the dining car does not happen to have his particular kiIc of breakfast food.
 The trip from Hachita is uninteTest- ing until the mountain ranges of Ari- zona are reached, when the parorams changes and green valleys and timber clad hills are to be seen. In the south end of the Chiric ahuas. l. N. Stevens pointed cut a shady dell where he campe1 with a number of companions in 1871, and a ridge on the crest of the same range where on the following day his band of pioneers sent fourteen Indians to the happy hunting gronnds." and it wasn't a gcoi day for business either Such things were so common then that they were re. ferred to merely as an incident of the trip
 Douglas. the wonder of the soH h. west, was reached about four o'clock, but as there were only eight in our party, and as we had left ou" guns at home, we did rot venture u9 town. Oorglas is .-i"Iady a p,eCe of much irlf ortance. and bids fair 70 he 'Le city of the southwest. l. is located in the beautiful Sulphur Springs val ley. looks clean and thrifty and has get-there style about it tha' is tru- ly fascinating Douglas, like other rapid growing border towns, is head quarters for tough hombres, but it has many good citizens who will eTaDtu- ally regulate these affairs, aGd either drive out or kill off the element which has done so much to adveT-ise the town. Douglas is a port ot entry, headquarters for the Phelp-DodSe railroads, and will eventually he tEe great smelling point slohc the border. The Calum t & Arizora company have their shelter here, and with two small furnaces are turning out forty tons of copper per day. The Copper Queen smelter. one of the largest in the coun- try. will be completed in few months and will give employment to several hundred men. Douglas has the most enterprising newspapers in the territo- ". and they are doing much for the place. The town has water works, electric lights and street cars. She's rapid.
 The train bacKed into Bisbee from Don Louie station, and remained long enough to give the passengers bird eye view Of the camp. which is a tol- erable close second to Clifton and Mo- rerci in the output of copper. Bisbee is supposed to be a model camp in many ways. Certainly it is the" camp of the southwest. employing American labor at s35O for eight hours. The business part is built in a canyon, the residences climbing up the mountains and hanging on to the cliffs by their bay windows and the eyes of their houses. Street cars and automobiles will never be popular in Bisbee What they want is flying machines, aerial tramways and para chutes. Bisbee is a good town in T business way, bu, in other ways it has a reputation of being somewhat care less. The mines and smelters employ about four thousand men, whose pril- cipal ambition is to spend their earu- ings. The Bisbee country has had wonderful boom during the past two years. caused by the great success Of the Calumet& Arizona. which is un Ter i the management of l. L Merrill. well known mining man. The great sue cess of this company was the incen-- i've for dozens of other Michigan com panies 10 secure adjacent property, which they are developing with a a rush. and if half of them are success l ful Bisbee will soon be the greatest camp on earth, except Clifton. Bisbe e is chiefly noted for its two excel | lent daily newspapers, and as the home of Frank Alley.
 The train arrived at Tombstone about nine o'clock but long before the limits of the town were reached its Hshts could be seen in the distance, | for unlike most mining towns It is | situated upon a hill, and keeps its | lamps trimmed and a burnin.'. Tomb stone, The name carries one back l to the early sos. when it was the busl- est. best and perhaps the wickedest i town on earth. Tombstone, with her great output of wealth, her careless. happy people, her gun-men, killers ana | bird cage, had a reputation, such as it was. which few other camps ever enjoyed. But it's glory departed wlth