Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-13
HOUGHTON MINES SOURCE IF
 WEALTH
William E, Curtis of Chicago Record-HeraId Tells of For tunes Made in Michigan Copper During Few Years
(Bl William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record I1 1erald)

(Bl William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record-Herald.)
 1 HoUHToN. Mich. Oct 12-This is a copper town. Almost everybody
 here makes. buys. sells, talks, thinks | and dreams copper and the inhabi. | tants do very little else. They don't raise vegetables enough to feed them, 1 selves because there is more money
 in copper. If you see two men with
 their heads together on the street
 you may be sure that they are talk. l ing copper. If you see man going | into a bank or coming out of it, you
 may be certain that he has either sold or bought stock in some copper
 mine. The main street of the town and there Is only one street. is lined with handsome cottages and villas
 built with the proceeds of copper min. ing and the profits of speculation in | copper stocks. I walked along the
 sidewalk with friend yesterday as
 far as the College of Miners while he | told me where this man. and the next
 and their neighbors made the money
 to buy or build their beautiful homes,
 and it was invariably from copper
 mines. chiefly on the northern benin 1 sula of Michigan. with fair share l in Arizona and Montana.
 The advertisements in the news papers of Houghton and vicinity con- tain offers to by or sell mining stocS and expatiate upon the advantages of purchasing or selling shares in diff ferent companies. just as the news papers of other cities announce the bargains that may be found at the department stores. The reading pages are devoted to news from cop per mines in different parts of the world, and on Saturdays and Sundays the supplements are filled with de
 scriptions of new copper mines and
 stories Of old ones.
 The Mining Gazette. the Houghton
 daily is the only newspaper I know
 that prints more copies than there are people in the town, and that also is accounted for by the copper craze
 The population of Houghton is 4,500:
 the circulation of the Mining Gazette
 is 7,5O0. and two-thirds of the copies
 90 outside the town to subscribers
 who are interested in copper opera tions. The proprietor of the Gazette publishes separate editions En the
 neighhoTing towns of Hancock aud Calumet for local news and local con
 sumption. . Hancock has a newspaper called
 ''The Weekly Teddy in honor of our beloved president. in whose nolicies the editor is a strong believer. and for whose personality he has a p-N- found admiration. His nrme is A.
 D. Petit. and he came u Hancock thirteen years ago from Ithaca, Mich. as part owner and >ditor uf the Houghton County Progress. That paper has since been absorbed by the
 Hancock Evening Journal and M' Petit started another with Thc moved name of "The Teddy" The selection may be criticised as showing too It. tie reverence for the President of the United States. but at the same time
 it proves the loyalty of the editor. I TTr- r eJIIC IIao~srFSvu GU IIITcs UVI mo III the Michigan legislature as thG rep
 resentative of this district. and, is inclined to make as many enemies
 as friends. his honesty and good intentions are unuestioned. lie is an
 eager reformer. and strikes at vari-
 GUS local abuses, both real and imag- mary, in a manner that resembles the fEhabits of bur iTustrious President.
 I do not know if the latter is aware
 of the honor Mir. Petit has done him,
 but he ought to see "The Teddy
 regularly. and it would not do any
 harm if he carried 8 few copies with
 him for Sunday and rainy-day reading when he goes on his bear hunt in Louisiana.
 Houghton is not much of town to
 look at, and you can see pretty much
 all there is of it from the decks of the steamers that go through Port age Lake. because it is set up on end. One long street follows the shore line hallway up the bluff. There :s another street along the shore. and back of the main street houses are scattered irregularly all over the hillside at various eleva- tions. with here and there a hand some brownstone church and fine
 schoolhouse. I saw a report the oth-
 CT day that more than s2.000. .000 had
 been expended in school buildings on the upper peninsula of Michigan dur ing the last five years. until now
 every city and town Of importance
 has new high school building or has
 contracted for one. J. D. Chubb.
 Chicago architect. who has designed
 great many. tells of numerous man
 ual training schools that have been erected in this section at cost Of s150 900 CT thereabouts. The same
 may be said of churches up sn this
 country Education and religion have
 shared In the unbounded prosperity Of Michigan. but the pleasures of life have not been overlooked. At the end of the main street is pretty and
 comfortable club house with golf grounds. tennis courts boats and all other opportunities for exercise and enjoyment.
 The business blocks are much larger and more imposing than you generally find in town of 45G0 peo- pie, and the show windows contain more expensive articles than you
 would expect to be sold here but that is only another evidence of the
 wealth and prosperity of the miners
 who live in the handsome houses on
 both sides of the long streets. Horgh- ten has a fine hotel. a most attractive
 and hcmelike place with genial landlord. who looks personally after