Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-05

UNPRECEDENTED FACTS
Development in Southwestern Mining Field Was Never
 Equalled Before.
THIS SECTION EXCEEDS
 MICHIGAN COPPER OUTPUT


 The following excellent article, de
 scribing the wonderful progress of this section of the United States, is taken from the Clifton Copper Era:
 Tn the history of the mining world that section known as the southwest which includes southern New Mexico. southern Arizona, the northern part of Sonora and Chihuahua, and also a corner of Texas, has made new rec ord, and one that eclipses all other records of rapid development.
 During the past few years the min eral output of this section has more than doubled Hundreds of miles of new railroads have been built, and other new roads are in contemplation and under construction. while new plants are being built as fast as devel- opment work in the mines will justify.
 The southwest includes the Rio Grande, Mimbres, Gila, Santa Cruz, Salt River and Colorado River val leys. In this section are the prosper ous towns and cities of Fl Paso-the best city in Texas-Las Cruces, Sill yer City, Hillsboro, Deming, Hachita, Lordsburg. Naco, NacoZari, Clifton, Morenci, Douglas, Bisbee, Cananea, Tombstone, Benson, Nogales, ,STucson. Yuma, Phoenix, Globe, and several towns of importance in the Gila val ley, all of which are hustling business centers, and many of them are rapid y growing into cities of importance.
 This section is today producing more copper than Michigan, and is crowding Montana for first honors in the output of red metal. But its min eIal wealth is by no means confined to copper alone, for it is a large pro- ducer of lead and the precious metals.
 Its pastoral and agricultural re- sources are almost without limit, and it affords the best market for farm produce in the world. Vast as are it's mineral resources, 1t is probable that with the completion of the great irri- gating enterprises now under way, its returns from agricultural products may in a few years be in the lead.
 Tt would he almost impossible to mention the various camps, or even districts. that are rapidly coming to the front in the southwest. Money is pouring into the country for the de- veiopment of its mineral resources by millions. There seems to be no end to it. Almost any property Of merit can now be financed
 Labor is scarce and wages good There is not an idle man in all this vast section, unless from choice.
 -'It is safe to say that there is not another section of the world where are more prosperous, where the opportunities are as great or the people more contented and happy.
 'Tn the southwest every man has his chance. A laborer today may be a capitalist tomorrow. Many of the most prominent citizens of the coun- try came here a few years ago as laborers, and by energy and business capacity have amasSed fortunes. Many others, it is true. have been able to avoid the tickle goddess of fortune by failing to grasp the golden opportun- ity at the critical moment. Every man has had. or will have, his chance. It is up to him. If he does not get rich he can at least make a good liv- ing, and accumulate a competency for old age.
 With a temperature ranging from that of the torrid to the frigid zone. with a climate superior to even that of far-famed California, and with min eral and agricultural resources second to no other section on the globe. it would indeed require a most vivid imagination to depict the future of the southwest. What has been accom- plished in the past twenty years will be surpassed in the next five, and so the march of progress will continue with each cycle of time, until the southwest will have her manufactur- ing centers like Pittsburg, her health rescr.s like Lc= Angeles, and her ccnrmcrcial centers like Chicago! while surrounding them will be mil lions of prosperous people who have reclaimed a desert wilderness ard 5uilded an cmrire."