The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-04
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO
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 turned to the level in safety, but it is safe to predict that one ride of that kind is enough for any Congressman, and none of them will be anxious to make the trip again. However, to V1s- it the Morenci region and the Detroit mines they were obliged to shoot an- other incline of 5000 feet, but it was not so steep and their heads were get ting accustomed to the conditions.
 AN ALADDIN BANQUET.
 After an inspection of the great con- centrating works, smelters, mines and stores of the Detroit Copper company at Morenci the appe- tites for lunch which was to be served at this place began to call for relief, but the tunnel must be visited. They were therefore conducted to a low, narrow tunnel which had been run into the mountain several hundred feet below the crest. It was not alto gether inviting, having 8 mysterious kind of. look as one tried to penetrate into its dark recesses. A feeling that bottonlless. pits or old shafts might suddenly confront, caused a slow pro- ceeding. But at last a solitary candle stuck in the side of the wall lent en- couragement. Then another and an other, until suddenly, turning into 8 cross cutting, they emerged into a flood of light and a spacious cavern t1f- ty feet high and thirty to forty feet in width. The ceiling and walls were studded with myriads of candles, and in the center was long table spread with spotless linen and sparkling with china and glassware This sight was received with great enthusiasm and ap- pIause. Had Aladdin suddenly ap- peared rubbing his lamp no more bril- liant, transformation could have hap pened, and certainly the feast that en- sued was one fit for the gods A hot bird and cold bottle was veritable fact on this occasion. Many entertain ing speeches were made, there being no fear of worldly criticism, and, one Congressman went so far as to admit that he had made speeches in Congress which when finished he had wished buried five hundred feet under ground, but that he had never made one before when it was already buried before he had finished The affair was most unique and for an underground ban quet will hold the record for while.
 ANOTHER SURPRISE.
 r As the party boarded train of open cars which was to carry them some miles, below where their regular train had been left, another surprise was in store for them. The road is said to be try. It circles and winds and loops under and over itself in it's descent of thousands of feet until one is amazed and made dizzy by it's ramifications. It not only took money and courage, hut brains, and the ability to figure the advantages that were to be obtained, and which have since been obtained by this daring business venture. The people back of this enterprise were the Phelps Dodge company who are not known to balk at such engineering, feats, and the question of cost is no barrier when their engineers decide that the project is worth the undertak- ing. This is characteristic of the managers of great mining industries L4lG LS1I1IOISs M1llIUuS are talked of as thousands are in the East, and there seems to be no difficulty about raising the money. But there is no sense in trying to do a mining busi- ness without there is plenty of money back of the enterprise. It takes quan- titles of capital, brains, energy and good management to successfully run a good mine, and where these are SUD- piled the returns are pretty sure to warrant the investment many times over There are sWindles and schemes in almost all trades, and in the mining districts these are looked upon with even more hatred than anywhere else, as it is well known that they have done much harm to the legitimate in- dustry and made it appear as some- thing to be fought shy of by careful and conservative business interests.
 DOUGLASS.
 Douglass, the next town visited, is g. f1ourishing and enterprising city which has practically come up in a night. It enjoys a $2O,0OO opera house, a splendidly equipped library, a gift from Professor James Douglass, presi- dent of the Phelps Dodge company, two banks with deposits of $300,0o0, and a number of hotels, besides other