Bisbee daily review., 1905-04-28
TELLING GO0D NEWS
 AWAY FROM HOME
L. E. ALLEN WHO RECENTLY MASE SOME GOOD
 INVESTMENTS
Visits His Old Home In New Mexico and Tells About the Bright Outlook For This Section In the Future.
Santa Fe New Mexican.


 Santa Fe New Mexican
 L. R. Allen, for several years busi- ness manager and part owner of the Optic plant at Las Vegas was in town 10 day on business. MT. Allen has concluded to leave New Mexico and cast his lot with the sister Territory If Arizona. He has purchased val uable business property in the grow ing and stirring town of Bis5ee. in Cochise County. Arizona. the prlnci- pal business center on the Fl PaSo & Southwestern Railway. MT. Allen thinks that the town has Q grand flu ture. and that he will come in oD the fall and growing tide of the towns prosperity and advancement. His in tention is to erect a business block on the lots he purchased for rental purposes. and he thinks this propo- sition will return him good interest on the investment in addition to in- creasing the value of the latter right along. As to the permanency of the mining town, Mir. Allen said: Tt is as assured in my opinion as that of any other city in the southwest"
 The Copper Queen mine, owned by the Phelps-Dodge people, is now em- ploying steadily over sixteen hundred men, and the best experts assert that there. is enough ore now in sight to give that number of men employment for at least twenty years, to say noth- ing of the vast amount of ore known to be in the property, but which has . not yet been blocked out and of which, as yet no careful estimate has been made.
 The properties of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, which are situated right at Bisbee. are consider ed by many experts to be as good as the Copper Queen and. indeed, it is prophesied that with development. as time goes on, they will prove a great CT and more profusely producing mine. This company is working one thou sand men at present in developing and opening up work and is increas- ing that force just as rapidly as it is possible to have men work profitably and to advantage. The output of the Copper Queen and the Calumet & Arizona Company is practically all t0DPCt MllA q lldNS LII tOlO
 The smelters at which the output of the Bisbee camp is handled are situated at Douglas, twenty-eight miles east where both the Copper Queen and the Calumet & Arlzona Mining Company have extensive smelters, which are being enIarged right along.
 It is being demonstrated that the copper ores in the Bisbee mining dis trict are richer than any found in the best mining districts in Michigan or Montana, and that the finished pro duct, copper bars, can be produced at two cents per pound cheaper than can be done at the big copper mines and smelters in Michigan and Montana, which heretofore have held the high est place in copper production.
 Bisbee today is a town of twelve thousand people and Mir. Allen ex- poets that by 1910. when thes next census is taken, it will be more than doubled. The payroll of the mining and transportation companies located there is estimated at over half mil lion dollars per month.
 MT. Allen is of the opinion that when the Fl Paso & Durango Railroad is finished so that coal and coke from the extensive. coal fields in San Juan County, in this Territory, can be brought to Bisbee and Douglas at lower rate than can now be done, the capacity of the smelters at Douglas will be doubled, and the mining oper- ations at Bisbee will be greatly in creased. The construction of this railroad will give the finest possible market for the agricultural and horti- cultural products of San Juan County, ant as far as tine development of the San Juan coal fields is concerned, Mir. Allen thinks this is simply beyond Erediction Upon the whole, he takes a very roseate view of the entire sit nation and is of the opinion that the Bisbee mining district in southeast Arizona will be of great value to New Mexico. as. with the completion of the Fl Paso & Durango Railroad, the farmers,s fruit growers and stock re sources of New Mexico will find prof. itable markets in southeastern Arizo- na. as there will be direct railroad line, the Fl Paso & Durango Railroad and the Fl Paso & Southwestern Rail- road. which will make it a point to develop and handle this important business and will prefer New Mexico products and meat to hauling from Kansas and Iowa.