Bisbee daily review., 1906-11-07
Fl PASOS MINERAL
 WEALTH IS ENORMOUS
Texas City Center of Large Copper Circle and Other
 Varieties of Ore.

A correspondent writing from Fl Pasc. Texas. to the St. Louis Republic has the following to say of the natural resources tributary to the Pass City;
 "Ei Paso has street named after St. Louis. an office building named after J. C. Van Blarcom, and another office building named after David R. Francis, and in many other ways eyt. deEces the fact that 1t Is thriving, up-to-date city. atzfn
 While Fl Paso occupies the ex- treme western tip of Texas, still 1t has plenty of room in which to expand, and according to statistics. Is doing so at rapid rate. Without extending beyond the limits of the county of which it is the principal city. 1t could he as large as the State of Massacau- sets and still leave ample room for other cities. Don Juan Ponce de Lecn founded Fl Paso in 1927, but the mod. ern history of this city dates from 1881, when the railroad entered its gates.
 "The population at that time mum bered about 500. In 1890 it had grown 10 10000. and now the population. ac- cording to the latest census, is 42,00e. To the initiated visitor who has trav- eied for many hundred miles through the seeming sterile country that sur rounds Fl Paso, this city appears won derful as an oasis in the desert, but when facts are told to him regarding the gree. -',s-eral wealth surrounding this citv, it's agricultural possibilities and probabilities, and its climate and sense of wonder decreases. leaving in it's place optimistic prophecies as to it's future.
 Some idea Of the enormous mineral wealth tributary to Fl Paso may be gained from the operation of the Fl Paso Smelling Works, situated three miles from the city, which employs 1.200 to 1,560 men and has a pay roll of from $40. 900 to $50, 900 a month This company alone pays the shippers nearly $1 900, 900 a month. The men who ship the ore make Fl Paso theii headquarters, buying their supplies here and many of them owning hand some homes.
 This is but an example of mineral wealth tributary to this city. It ex tends in a radius of at least 750 miles around 1t. While copper Is the prin cipal mineral, silver and other ores are sent to the great smelters for the last analysis. But with all due and proper credit 10 the many cause1 which have made Fl Paso change from a settlement into an up-to-date city within few years and emitting the statistics showing her great increase in clearings, industrial and agricultur al wealth, the explanation ot 1t all car be made in an unvarnished account cl it's climate.
 Climate makes the history of na tion and there is no question but thai the climate of Fl Paso, more thanfany thing else, is the cause of its prosper ity.
 At an altitude of nearly 1000 fee above the sea, with days, weeks ant even months of the brightest and pur est sunshine imaginable, 1t is no won der that its citizens, breathing tho fresh. bracing air that sweeps ovel the great plains, walking in sunlight dazzling and invigorating, should have the energy and willingness tC put their shoulders to the wheel ana help push the city onward and upward
 From November until May many afflicted by lung trouble come to this city, but the large majority of visitors are tourists who have heard of this city of the border and stop over or their way to and from California ol Mexico to see 1t and its neighbor city JuareZ."