Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-24
AlgTTea FROM ARIZONA

A LE ER hOH AhtZONR
 A tenderfoot. who we are informed is still in our midst, has written the following scurTilous and libelous arti- cie to ''his home paper" in Iowa. Af- ter writing an equally ridiculous arti- cle regarding Fl Paso and Cuidad Juarez. he delivers himself of the fol lowing relative to Bisbee and Doug las:
 Douglas, Ariz, April 3, 1906. Editor Press;
 Leaving Fl Paso by the Fl Paso Southwestern, we started for Bisbee, /. Arizona, a distance of about 250 miles over the most barren and deSolate country one ever saw, nothing but sand hills and cactus, country so bar ren and unproductive that an Irishman couldn't raise h-l without a jug of whisky It's run of twelve hours that takes one to the greatest copper mining camp on earth, for such is Bisbee. Bisbee is place of between 12.00 and 15.000 people, situated in Tombstone canyon, a canyon running from Tombstone to Benson. a distance of 42 miles. The city, or camp, rath- CT, is built on either side of the can yon, with branches running up Brew cry gulch and Hell's Run, neither of them wide enough to drive two farm wagons side by each" The houses are built on the mountain sides where, in order to get building space. they have to blast out the rock. When you don't have to go up hill you have to go down. There is no sewerage, but lit tie water system and less law and or der, and it is surely the wild and wool ly west They have no paved streets or cement walks. in fact couldn't have them. And l wouldn't give one prai- rie town in Iowa for all have seen in Arizona Have spent a week in Douglas. It's finely laid out city It was laid out in March. 1905, and to- day boasts of a population of 1000, but like lots of other boom towns the bub- ble bursted, and now scores of houses are standing empty and store buildings Of 20xs0 feet are begging for renters at from $25 to $40 per month. They are talking of putting in s500,0O0 in Improvements here this year, but it sounds like hot air to me, for why should they spend so much for inn proyements while there is no demand for what is already here.
 
 Dakota or New Mexico; I have never seen anything that could come up to the wind they have had here in Doug las for the last four days
 Arizona seems to be kicking on joint statehood with New Mexico, claiming she has resources undevelop- ed amounting to millions which would help to fill the treasury of the new state, but after travelling through both territories and judging from perma- nent improvements made, I haven't seen city in Arizona which com pares with Albuquerque for nice homes and permanent industries, for while Arizona has millions still undeveloped in mines, New Mexico has millions in timber and ranching land that as a permanent industry oyerbalances what I have been able to see in Arizona.
 While here in Douglas visited the Copper Queen smelte-s, employing about 1,500 men, about half each of Americans and Mexicans, and it is claimed to be the largest smelter in the world. It is great thing, indeed, covering several acres of ground in all, and the sulphur and arsenic fumes are simply terrible, even the Mexicans in the furnace rooms having to wear muzzles over their mouths While here at Douglas I went over the line into Mexico, and visited the town of Agua Prieta in the state of Sonora whose capitol is hermosiiio. This town was founded some years before Douglas, and has an old bull pit where in days gone by the hombres brought their senoritas to witness the Grande Festival in the arena. In crossing over the border line saw something that perhaps might be of interest, namely, monuments or signs marking the line and looking like old fashioned tomb stones in country cemetery. They stand 6 2 feet high, are inches at the base and s inches at the top, on one side bearing the inscription Boundary of the United States. Treaty of 1S53 Re-established by treaties of 1882 and 1889. The destruc- tion or defacement of this monument is a misdemeaner punishable by the United States or Mexico
 ~On the other side reads: 'Bemite de la Republica MexicaDa. Tratado de 1853. Re-establecido DOT Tratados 1SS2-12S9. La destrucion desloca. cion de este monumento es un deiito punible DOT Mexico las Ectados Unidos.' And you have to be search ed both ways. Coming back I had two Mexican cigars; one was smok- ing, and the other in my pocket. The guard took the one in my pocket away from me. and had gone only a short distance from him when I saw him light my confiscated smoke
 am now on my way back to Bis bee. where I will stay for a short time, then either going to Albuquerque or back to my old home in Iowa for.