Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-29
A BOLD ATTEMPT
 TO DODGE THE ISSUE.

TO DODGE THE ISSUE.
 The Phoenix Enterprise, in it's issue of Sept. 2Gth and 27th. which came to hand yesterday. has evidently aban- dOned its position Tn support of the action of the Territorial Board of Equalization in raising the non-pro- ducng mines of Cochise County 150D per cent. and by insinuation, threats coercion and the publication of malic- iouS and false statements, seeks to in fluence the decision of the Supreme Court in this matter, and to still fur ther kindle the flame of malice and prejudice which have heretofore heea entertained by the granger element of Maricopa county against the chief in dustry of the Territory.
 The especial ire of the only newspa- per in the Territory which has had the audacity and unmitigated nerve to at- tempt to bolster up the action of the Territorial Boa'd. seems to be di-e:L- ed against the Copper Queen Compa- ny of Cochise county, it's officials and representatives In an editorial on Tuesday last the following bit of in formation was passed out as the gCs- pei to the benighted subscribers of the Enterprise:
 'The Copper Queen company is by far too just and reputable a corpora tion to try and perpetrate a wrong on the people of Arizona, and we feel assured that it's attorneys will present some cogent reasons to the court, and the people of this Territory why it's mines, which have a valuation of something like s1OO,0O0, 0O0 are On the assessment rolls of Cochise couu ty for 56.0OO. If there is any justi fcation of such an assessment, the people of Arizona are entitled to know it."
 There is as much truth in this statement as there is in the front page story the following day that the Copper Queen company were endeav- ed from office.
 The records of Cochise County show that the Copper Queen compa ny is on the assessment rolls of Cc chise county for over two million dol lars. There is slight difference be tween the official figures on the rec Ords and the controverted statement: of the Phoenix paper.
 The exact figures this year are 8 e39.914S2, just a variance of abou two million dollars. In this cornec ton the Review will inform the en 1ightened(?) editor of the Enterprise that the assessment of this year is al most a million dollars in excess Of las year, the figures of the Copper Queer assessment for 1904 being s1,4S3, e10.41.
 With this P:t of information tht Phoenix paper goes on to talk abou aliel corporations, the white man burden, citizens of the United State1 z and anything aud everything, excep the merits Of the case at presen pending before the Supreme Court c the Territory. The Enterprise is eu deavoring plainly to get under cover but in doing so it is leaving a dirt. slime in its trall in a bowling effor to create a prejudice and feelini against the Supreme Court Judge when their decision shall have bee rendered.
 Since the efforts of the Territoria Board, supported by the Phoenix ol gan, to play cheap game of polite in tbis Territory has fallen flat so fal the only course left to pursue unGe the circumstances, is to sneak ava and by epitheis, malicious misstatt ments and morbid insinuations, al tempt to show the chief industry c this Territory to be a leech on tb back of the people, thing to be dread ed and abhorred, and foreign capita invested in every mining county in tn Territory, to be represented by gang of grafters who arc sucking tn life blood out of the Territory an leaving nothing in return.
 The trend O. the editorial expre: sions of the Enterprise and the tric of distcEting statements in it's new columns. relying on prejudiced sent ment thus to be created. to win tn case of the mine owners. large an small. now pending in the Suprem Court is conclusive evidence that tn jig is up. The cheap political tric