Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-19
REUBEN SEES SOME THINGS
 IN 5IsBEE TOWN.

l got out of the eating shop all right minus two bits and plus four bits worth of dinner that took away with me and went back to the tavern. 1 stood out on the wide yeranGa and looked cross lots to the big bare mountain with a big hole in 1t. A man told me that the hole was where the Copper Queen first dug for cop per and was surprised to hear it. The hole is big enough to put a good sized house in it, with nothing but mighty hard rocks al arbund il.I couldn't see any copper anywhere, not even a copper cent and asked the man about it. He said the copper was further down in the hole and mixed in with stone. They call the stuff, ore. Anyway, I got it through my head that it hid in it's hole like scared woodchuck It is difficult, sometimes. to unearth a woodchuck; but I should think it would be more difficult to unearth copper. The man said it was and he seemed to know for certain; so l believe what he said l saw some great big pipes laying end ways upon the mountain; they were longer and bigger than any sea-serpent discovered in the last two years. The man said the Copper Queen had a smelter there once and used to blow smoke through these pipes. thought, may be, that it was a pipe dream, but as the pipes were there and not doing anything, had to give in. The same man told me the mountain was faulty but whose fault it was he did not tell. was informed later that most of the copper around Bisbee was found in pockets and l wondered in whose pockets. 1 knew that John Rockefel- Ter, Lawson, Morgan and others of that kind of bunch did not live in Bisbee and was considerably puzzled. By and by I learned from a man who said he knew a heap about how the earth was built, who built it, and when 1t was built, that pocket was 6 sort Of coirty in the porphyry rocks con taining copper ore. l understood what he said all right, but could not get 1t through my cranium as to what he meant. I learned. though, that some of these pockets were mighty big ones and well off and that the whole blamed mountain was full of them, and that big corporations and com panies are trying to get their hands in them. Some of them have sue ceeded, too, and raked out millions of dollars. Well, it's more profitable than digging potatoes in a dry season. While I was studying about these things, gent came along and asked me if my name was Cole. "No, sir" replied, my name is MT. Reuben
 and I live back east; but who is i Cole?"
 Excuse me-" the man said, 'T took you for MT. Cole. the newly crowned Copper King"
 I told him I didn't blame him any
 and offered to shake hands on it; l but he couldn't shake because he wore
 cork fist. He said, however, that Mir. Cole was a famous gent with a
 good head and an eye always skinned
 for business. made up my mind on the spot that I would introduce my | self to his majesty the c. K at the l earliest minute that I could give him. ! I haven't seen him yet though I'm ] steadily watching out. The gent with
 the cork hand gave him a good rec i ommendation and said he had a whole ! wheelbarrow load of money, and I was 1 glad to hear it, and became more anx, | ious than ever to meet him as my l own wallet was getting thin as pan. l cake when flour is scarce.
 The cork hand man went away and l so did I. He had mobile" and
 walked; and the walking wasn't very
 good either in spots. I keep on go, 1 ing when suddenly and without any
 intention of doing it, met a man who said his anne was-I won't say ] what now-and he had a first rate J look about him and treated me like a
 father. He told me a whole lot of
 mighty interesting, bible facts and ii
 I don't forget what he said I'll sort
 it out and say it next Sunday
 REUBEN.