Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-20
SELL ID ESPEE?
 WHY, II IS ID LAUGH
PehIpS-DOdge at NaCOzari Need Their Railroad in Their BuSi- ness and Will Keep It De- spite All Threats,

als, seem even yet, whispering back from the yerdant Businesses of the surrounding hills, while at present, the silent portentious interval like the hour of dsathly suspense at Get tysburg, leads every one to strain the ear for the first murmur announcing a renewal of the conuict.
 While the Espee took the initiative the Moctezuma Copper company ap- propriated the first fall" the enc my retiring behind his "earthworks" where in sullen silence he is doubt less reforming his lines for a renewal of offensive operations. The Mocte- yuma shows no disposition to calmly relinquish those rights acquired by years of effort beneath a semi-tropical sun, insisting that the newcomer con fine his operations to his own legal and well defined sphere.
 Briefly stated, the facts are these; The Espee has, or can, by ordinary routine procedure, obtain a right of way through the camp of Nacozari. In either event it exceeded its concession and authority by attempting to appro- priate ground outside its right of way and erecting a certain lumber ediflce of more or less pretentious propor- tions, and by its operations, menacing the company lodging house along with divers and sundry stoEe residences constituting what is locally known as plain mans row" in the rear of said lodging house. Now the local com pany secured an injunction including an order for the removal of the new Espee club house and the general
 
 company, with that remarkable meas ure of generosity for which he has ever been distinguished, detailed a squad of carpenters, the worst he had, ! to assistin the demolition of this, the first monument of progress set up by | the Hartman folks among the placid environments of the ancient Placeri- | tas This performance was distin- | guished for the qualities known ln current literature as ''neatness and l dispatch" no time being squandered in outlying up unsightly nail holes, ! spreading the mantle of the hewers art over ghastly rents or tacking tin over caVernOus knot holes as they ] proceeded Now the lumber has once more resumed it's recumbent position or the cold, cold ground, an eloquent testimonial to the sinister record oi the traditional gun that went of hal! cooked.
 l Now. when the Espee comes again she will probably come right, In which event not a speck win appear in the sky of her ambitions, not a shadow fall across her right of way, while the little brown ninas, the careless eyed burro and the hairless dog con template her progress with sunny un concern.
 The Espee is scheduled to pass through the northwesterly part of the camp, circling around to the north crossing the NacOZari road at La 1 Cuesta Castillo, thence running up the i Nacozari river to the open country where even conjecture loses its way "and further, affiant sayeth not"
 Below Nacozari the Espee is work ing energetically. From the immedi ate suburbs of the camp, about ont fourth of a mile from the Nacozar hotel. where squads are working a
 close and regular intervals, the force
 between that point and Sherman
 ranch, some twenty miles away, being
 estimatc at 2000 men. The grade
 runs down the right side of the Naco
 zari river, constituting a continuou
 succession of cuts and fills.
 The recent report to the effect tha
 the Espee had submitted an ulimat um to the NacoZari management t'
 the effect that the latter would hay'
 to sell within a time mentioned or b.
 paralleled, is of no significance, ever
 if true, which is extremely doubttal.
 While the Espee, with becoming dig
 nity, fails to publish disclaimer Il
 the premises, her representatives il the field are disposed to ridicule thi
 proposition.
 In the first place, if such proposi
 ton was submitted, the chances ar 1 ten to nothing that 1t was a bluf
 which the Nacozari people, being mas
 ters in the ethics of preliminary ma
 nipulation, wodld ignore with smile
 In the second place, Phelps-Dodg
 need the Nacozari railroad in thei
 business and will continue to need 1
 more every hour, 1t being an indis
 pensabIe adjunct to their coiiossa mining operations in northern Sonora , and they would realize practically tn
 same benefit if it were paralleled dozen times and local patronage whol ly diverted.
 Therefore they could not afford t
 sell without a satisfactory traffi'
 agreement. which would have to cove such a multitude of inconsistent, an tagonistic and irTeconcilable feature
 as to render it impracticable, so tha the prospects of confronting a trail
 crew on the Nacozari road in Espe' livery within ninety days are no
 bright enough to hurt the eyes, or il
 other words, are exceeding atten
 uated.
 Nacozari-Presen and Prospective.
 Ore is the most remarkable exampl of tongueless eloquence outside of tn United States mint. The concentrate | system of the Moetezuma Copper con pany, when completed, will have daily capacity of about 2250 tons Contemplating every incidental fat tor this means a population conservs lively estimated at 20,250 people c all ages and classes. It being fairl demonstrated that !. camps of thi character the population may be al proximately estimated at nine person for every ton of capacity of the redut ton plant in the camp This will aI ply to smelter, concentrator and mi work. This estimate is confined [ points where the ore is mined an treated in the same camp. The con pany's operations alone may be d pended upon to justify this populatio in the next two years. Then the m merous propositions owned and op' | rated by others and the ineyitabl