Bisbee daily review., 1906-09-16
For Delegate to Congress MARCUS A. SMITH.
COcHlSE COUNTY MINING INDUSTRY.

Few people can realize the great advance made by the mining industry in Coehise county during the last six years Six years ago the only districts where there was work of any import ance in this county was at Bisbee and at Pearce; Tombstone was idle with only vague hope that Gage, Murphy and their associates would undertake the great work of pumping the water from the old rich silver properties and make them again productive. Bis bee was running along as it had been for ten years, attracting no special attention. The early work at Bisbee was on the rich surface ledges which made production easy and profitable
 Six years ago there was no Doug las, no Paradise. no Gleason and no Black Diamond. The Calumet & Ari- zona had secured some of their prin- cipal mines which were being develop. ed. but they had not even planned their smelling plant, which has since turn ed out enough copper ore to pay divi- dends to the stockholders in the c. & A. amounting to more than $3,000, ,000
 During the last six years the Copper Queen built the great reduction works in Douglas which hardly has an equal in capacity in the United States, re- sulting in the building of a city near to it which now claims population of more than 5000 souls, To arrive at correct idea of the increase in the mineral industry in this section it is only necessary to consider the in creased population which is now draw ing its business and prosperity from the mines of the Warren district.
 And the end of this increase in min ing activity here is not yet. We have the Shattuck just entering the produc- ins stage and giving every promise of becoming rival of the best proper ties in the district; we have the Denn- Arizona, the Bonanza Circle group of companies, the Cochise and many oth- CT companies which will in due time be sending their ores to the reduc- tton works.
 Had conditions in Bisbee been such that the great Douglas reduction plants could have been retained. the city today would have population of more than 30,000. As it is Bisbee is today the largest and most prosperous city in the territory, with Douglas very close second if not entitled to that place in the list of Arizona cities.
 When we consider the vast sums of money spent in the Warren district and in enterprises for the accommoda- tion of the mining industry here it is sufic to make one dizzy. During the last six years the Phelps-Dodge people have built their railroad from Bisbee to Fl Paso and purchased as many more miles of railroad in New Mexico; they have purchased the Daw- son coal fields that they might have an Independent supply of fuel for this district. These great investments are mentioned as a guarantee of the sta bility of Bisbee as city. It is safe to say that the youngest babe in Co chise county will not live long enougf to zee the end of the copper produc tiol in the Warren district.
 Over in the Johnson camp there il much activity; smelters are beinl erected and a branch of the Southern Pacific is to be built to accommodate the mires taere.
 J The mines of this county are toda.
 supporting population of not les
 than i0.eo0 people here. besides send
 ing vast sums to the agricultural va
 leys of tie territory for hay, grair , vegetables, fruits, dairy products, cit [ Long live the mining industry i
 Coc5ise and the men who are pushin