Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17

The following concerning the Silver Bell Mining district in Pima county is taken rom the Tucson Citizen: .,.
 Permanence; solid construction;' an impression of willingness to eXpend money with a thought only to the re- quirement in view--in short the evi- dence that here someone has decided to engage in mining operations prop erly and upon an adequate scale, after having been. first thoroughly satisfied of the worth of the mine-these are the impressions borne upon visitor to Silver Bell, the least advertised new camp of the Southern Arizona mining field.
 Operations have been carried on so unostentatiously during the two years which have elapsed since the Imperial Copper company acquired, for con sideration of a half million, the well known Silver Bell properties owned for many years by a company. the leading stockholders of which were Albert Zeckendorf, that it fs matter of astoEfshment to a Tucsonian to ob- serve the extent of the transformation which has occurred at the other end of the Tucson range.
 The change is first observed at Red Rock. The former way station with box-car depot has blossomed out into a bustling little junction point with years, a pretty station building, water and oil tanks and the usual struggling row of buildings facing the tracks. The view from here is mag nificent. Looking across the South ern Pacific tracks, northeast, the Owls Head from which the district takes it's name, iutts up oddly and calls to mind the story of the Boston company which some ten or fifteen years ago spent a few hundred thousands in building, model town, with clubhouse, hotel, livery barn race course, etc. in fact everything that could be desired to make a pleasant environment for he gentlemen who were to direct miaIng operations and then thoughtlessly neg lected to save out any funds with which, to mine.In half circle to the left the Picacho peak comes into view, and turning due westward the gaze falls upon the Tucson range. with the twin-steel bands of the Arizona South ern railroad stretching straightaway, past Sasco, where the new shelter of the Imperial company Is building. high up in the peaks to Silver Bell.
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 Some six or seven miles from Red Rock the train pauses at Sasco and a busy scene is unfolded. A dozen cottages have sprung up among the cactus and carpenters are at work on still others. A construction gang is engaged in cutting through a hill for a spur of the railroad and the smelter site is strewn with lumber and ma chtnery. It seems an ideal spot for a shelter. as it is on the first gentle rise of the foothills. with fine flow of water across the bottom of the sunk well as inexhaustible as an underground river can be, an almost level grade across the intervening val ley to the main line and downhill run from the mines.
 From Sasco the road begins to wind among the Sohaura staked hills and to climb. When within few miles of the camp the grade becomes so heavy as to necessitate switch-backs and, like a shuttle. back and forth, the train crawls. each time getting higher until. rounding the side of an especis,- iy tall hill 1t glides easily into the in which the town nest les. The railroad continues a mile or