Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-20
FUTURE E SOUND FOR COPPER
 MARKET
industries Must Have the Met ali Big Railroad Prepares to Use Huge Quantities in Changes to Electricity
CIron Ore)

Qron Ore)
 Iron Ore has been urging the idea that copper is not going out of the trades, and that the mix up on Wall street is not going to put the coppeY miners out of business. Indeed, the metal has only begun it's magnificent career, and the percentage of gain is bound to increase with the worlds progress, which is very rapid. The Lake Superior country has seen times when things looked very dOleful Tor the miners of iron ore, this having been brought on by changes in our political administrations. We have lived on soup, been the recipients of the old clothes of localities possessing not one tenth the natural wealth oI our own, have trembled and predicted direful things, but we are still min | ing and the present season will have seen the largest tonnage sent from our land in all its history for a twelve months performance. The total will be about forty million tons.
 As we have said, the country is still with us. We have the land, the wa ter, the timber, the minerals, and the people. The trouble is with the peo- pie, and with that portion which has lifted its voice against every man who is trying to make his dollars count in the industrial field. Just as soon as this element makes its de- mands reasonable, and the capitalist is assured that he will have a fair show, then will the business go on in measure agreeing with conditions generally, the latter being conceded to be excellent. The future, then. rests solely with the people, and if the people are wise they will assist in the perpetuation of good times and good wages. They will have to recog- niZe the active dollar and give it a show. They will have to realize that the dollar must be had as we'll as their labor, and that both are de manded for bountiful whole. There should be an honest amaIgamation oE men and money, of capital and labor. and the fellows who preach discord between these elements should be suppressed.
 The Pfttsburg Dispatch of the 9th inst, has the following to say con cerning the identification of the great ennsylvania railroad system. If carried out it will be a great thing for the copper miner:
 With the charge of 23,OOO,OOO for 1 improving and enlarging the Pitts burg terminal during the past five years the Pennsylvania railroad com pany officials are authority for the | statement that plans will soon be un. | der way, of a definite character. for the identification of it's entire termf. 1 nal system in Pittsburg at the exDend | iture of many more millions. At first | 1t is said, the changes will be made | in limited manner and then be grad ually extended until the entire termi. nal system is operated exclusively by | electric power.
 Officials in Pittsburg, while not pre- pared to give out more than a general l Idea of what was in prospect, ad- miJUed that the advent of President James McCrea had caused a greater activity along the line of electrified. ton, and the moment the company had frightened its financial burden in | connection with the New York termi nal work it would take up the more active development of electric power
 Only tentative plans have been dis. cussed for Pittsburg, but these are interesting as they provide for the ex tension of electric power, either third rail or overhead, from Pitcairn on | the main line to outlying points on both the Panhandle and the Fort i Wayne divisions. The purpose is to have the steam locomotive drop the trains at those points and the trains drawn through the city by smokeIess and noiseless machines. At first, it i Te | handled, but the ultimate idea is to have all trains moved in the same manner.
 In gathering this information off. cials of the Pennsylvania went into a general discussion Of the difficulties of eiectrHication under any of the known systems. From their statements it is regarded as certain they do not yet consider all of the intricate prob lems of such 8 radical change solved However, this much was told to The Dispatch from these officials.
 A system of electric motive power has been adopted for the New York terminals which is believed to be the most perfect yet discosered and which will form the basis for further extensions. The first of these exten.
 siens will be from New York to Phfla. delphia. and probably 25 miles west Of Philadelphia, beyond which steam power will be used. The second step
 is to be in Pittsburg, as outlined, and gradual extensions eastward will be
 made to meet the eastern work. In other words, the important admission
 is made that the Pennsylvania rail
 road is now standing committed to the eiectrification of its entire sys. tenn.
 In the changes necessary to eIectri fy completely the Pittsburg terminals this much was explained: The present
 terminals at the Union station for
 passenger trains will have to be en.
 iarged. To enlarge them the com
 pany has found itself confronted by
 most serious problems. More yard
 room cannot be well taken away from
 the side of Heron Hill. Liberty ave
 nue Is too important a thoroughfare
 to hope to secure from Pittsburg, so 1 that the yards can be satisfactorily extended toward Penn avenue, and
 Union station forward to New Grant