Arizona silver belt., 1904-02-04
BETTER TIMES FOR DOUGLAS
Copper Queen to Erect Fifty Cottages
 Other Improvements

Otucf improvements
 Supt. Walter Douglas, of the Cop per Queen Consolidated Mining com pany, visited Douglas last week and when asked when the big reduction works there would be ready for opera tion, he said he had importuned Mir. AdamsOn to fix day when the first copper would be smelted in the new plant, but MT. Adamson had de- clined to set the time. However, the work is being pushed with all possible speed and it is the hope that copper reduction will be in full blast there by the middle of the year.
 Douglas has not seen its best days yet, 'said MT. Douglas, ''and the growth of the place will continue steadily. The Copper Queen Mining company is now getting the plans prepared for fifty new cottage residences in Doug las. The buildings will not be punched in any one locality of the city but will be we'll scattered all over 1t, on lots that were purchased by the company when the city was first laid of by the original owners.
 "The Copper Queen has several hun dred trusted employees who have been with them at Bisbee for many years, employed in the smelter. Many of tha,, o,y, bon,aa In pishaa ,p phich tbav will have to abandon to come to Doug las when we discontinue the smelters in Bisbee. The new houses to be built by the company will be sold to these employees, on the instalment plan, if desired, at the actual cost of construc- tion and on basis of per cent inter- est. Those who own their homes in Bisbee can either sell or rent them and acquire new homes here. The compa ny can build these honses in bunch much cheaper than individuals could build them for themselves.
 "These new houses will be of vari- ous styles of architecture and will contain from three to seven rooms.
 "The Cooper Queen will begin at once the work of converting the public hall building erected here when Douglas was started as town, into public library and reading room, similar to the one now maintained by the com pany on Main street in Bisoee. The building will be supplied with an up. to-date library and all the first class newspapers, magazines, reference books, etc. Later more pretentious building will be erected for this pur- pose, when the size of the place de- hands it."
 The announcement that the Copper Queen will begin at once the erection if fifty cottages in this city should lone be sufficient guarantee of the apid progress of Douglas during the resent year. But this is not all that ives promise of industrial activity lere during 1904, says the Interna- ionar- The new brewery be erected here by the Montana ompany will cost not less thau sixty thousand dollars; the proposed gas liant which is now considered assured, gill cost s75, ,000 to $l00.000; the pro- osed brewery at the San Bernardno anch will add greatly to the business ,roaparitv nf thic nitv
 The building decided upon by the topper Queen will cost not less than fifty thousand dollars and the total nay be much more than that figure. The future of Douglas was never tighter than now; strangers are com ng here every day looking for invest nents and the mining country sur. 'ounding was never more promising specially is this true of the Sonora .luntrY