Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-02

DOUGLAS, Jan. 1.-(Special.l--
 notwithstanding the great growth of Douglas during the year 1906, al ready there are many things decided apoR for the new year which give promise that it will show no dimins- tica in the progress Of the city when it, xoo, shall become the victim of the cycle of time.
 First in importance is the assurance already given of the continued en- lasgements of both the smelters in this city. At the Queen plans are al ready being prepared for more and larger furnaces. At this plant No. 10 furnace is just being completed; the next furnace planned is to equal three of the present ones and will be under way during the early spring: the aI- nouncement that another stack is to be erected at the Queen. practical duplicate of the present one to which . sixty foot addition has just been completed tells the story that this smeltfng plant is to be yet doubled in it's capacity. At the c. and A. plans are also coming along for lEi- psrfant enlargements during the year 1907. A new machine shop. power house, more furnaces and more con ssrters will be numbered among the improvements and additions st the Calumet and Arizona during the com ing twelve months which will call for aa expenditure on the plant of prob ably half a million. The smelter en- Engagements will mean the employment of more men and the consequent in- crease in the trade of the merchants ef Douglas.
 Nothing definite concerning the building of the Authorizations ssnelter h this city has been given oat, but the recent encounter of great ore bodies ia the Denn mine is as gaFance that this plant will be corn- iag along during the year 1907.
 It was learned yesterday that the various public utility companies ia Doagias are planning for many i'm movements during the coming year. The Douglas Improvement company has already begun the work of in- creasing it's supply Of water ip the city. A ten-inch main is to be laid from the reservoir to the corner of Eleventh and G. This will bring wat er to the main business section in quantities large enough to meet every | demand for domestic and fire use. From this large main the smaller mains throughout the city will be fed. 1 When this new system has been in- stalled it is the purrese of the com pany to rearrange their charges for | water, it having been decided 10 put all houses on the meter plan. IL Is | expected that the price of water will | he reduced for the average homes, | but the details of the new price scale | hx.. .&
 The contract has been let for an entire new electric plant for this com many which Is to be completed by the | first of May. The Allis-Chalmers com pany are now building the new plant, 1 which will be equal to any system in the west. The present system Is what ia known as the direct current; the new system is to be the alternating current. When this new plant Is in szaIled Douglas will have an electric plant second to TO city in the country.
 The Douglas Street Railway com pany will soon build an extension Of ifs line through the Clawson tract, east of the city, now being improved ip preparation for placing on the mar ket. On this addition to the city it has already been arranged to build a dozen residences during the first half of the new year.
 The Douglas Gas corporation will begin carly in tho year to build a duplicate plant, including an addition al gas tank and an addition to the nower plant This enlargement will enable the company to supply an in cseaeed quantity of gas when required. as well as bs guarantee against saeppage of service in case of acci-i don't.
 .. c. Hanks of the First National hank. T can say, with the other bnsiness people of Douglas, that the vear,s showing has been good We Nave erected a new bank building. which. when furnished will cost us about s40.0 .00e The architects says 1t Ir the best bank building in the ter rftoYx. The principal cause Of the prosperity of Douglas for the past xear has been the opening of so many aew mines in southern Arizona and 9ezora the increase in the output of the two local smelters, the increase sv he output Of the mines, etc. As taase srfproEements arc to 5e oufeone thts coming year there is no doubt 4hax ffsa outlook for the growth of nouzlas for 19e7 ia even more exten- give shan that of the year closing to- a1sx. l fhfnk t is safe to say that &Ae effy has added 1000 people to 1tz ar<uztafSon daring 1e46''
 ,F1s Calishers report sn fner ase in tsetY business for the year just clos