Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-12-29

(From Fftz-Mac's Arizona News Bur
reau)
The precious metals vary greatly
from point to point on the same level
in copper mines and almost uniformly
decrease with depth. They are some
times very high. but the average is
seldom high and it is mostly quite
low.
But the statistical table that does
not show Tor at least suggest) the re-
lation of one set of facts to many 9TH
|er sets of facts is labor wasted. II
is the relationships that render them
luminous and entertaining and in
structiYe.
It is, for instance, a fact worth
knowing that Colorado is the greatest
producer of gold in the western hem
isphere. But that isn't fact that ex-
actly thrills an Arizona man till you
show that the value of all the gold
produced in Colorado in 1906 was not
SO great by nearly a million as the
value of the copper produced in Ari-
zona's one camp of Bisbee.
The two facts illuminate each other.
Yayapai countyi-one doesn't Of
ten hear of Yavapai county outside of
Arizona In Paris or London or New
York-or even in Los Angeles-you
hear 1900 stories about the vast
value of the output of Goldfield to one
about Yavapai county. Yet the sworn
value of the output Of a single cop
| per mine, the United Verde, IN Yava-
| pal county, as | have shown. was in
| 1906 over S1,000000 more than the
| total output of Goldheld
But Yavapai county isn't AriZona's
GREATEST copper district-it is third
| in importance. The output of Art
zona's greatest copper field, Bisbee,
exceeded in value in 1906 the total
value of Goldfield's output by nearly
seventeen million dollars.
If that statement knocks your eye
out get a glass eye-don't quarrel
with me for stating an indisputable
fact of public record.
When facts like those are brought
into comparison they illuminate each
other and become interesting and
memorable. As I have said else
where, statistics are a dull study till
they are illuminated, then they be-
come magical with a sort of radio-ac-
tivity in impressing facts upon the
mind. The copper output of Yavapai
in 1906 a little exceeded nine and
one-half millions, and her gold and
silver would make a total a little in
excess of ten millions showing an ex-
cess of rather better than three mil
lions over world renowned Goldfeld.
II our slow and modest old Yavapaf
district, with its .matchless climate
5000 feet above sea leveD its rolling
prairies its beautiful wooded hills, its
warm and fruitful valleys, its numer-
ous streams of clear, pure water, and
its limitless wealth of minerals, pos
sessed the alert, intelligent driving,
resistless mining population that in
habits the scor.ac desolations of Gold
field-if Yavapai had Goldfield's ire
pressible mining population to get
out and boiler for her" and carry her
guidon at the front of the fray, her
output would be quickly doubled and
her name would echo round the
world.
They are nice quiet people up in
old Yavapai and good Christians, but
you can't call them wide-a-wake. hus-
ting, up-to-date miners-not If you
care what you say.
Root Hoa. or Die.
At Goldheld, OF course. it's an i'm
perative case of root hog or die, but
they are all rooteTs from ROCKVILLE
Deeu TOOtlHS, uOSI VI lLeIly ever
since they crossed the Mississippi
soldiers of fortune. fearless and tire
| less, facing the thirst and desolation
of the scoriac deserts with a heart
for any fate.
And they have regenerated Nevada
! They have kept her on the map, They
found her a state in name only, hang
ing by the eyelids, hungry and de-
| spised, with only quarter the popu-
| lation of Arizona, and they have Civ
en- her high seat in the congregation
of the hopeful and made the world re-
sound with the fascinating romance or
| her great. expectations.
It takes character to do that. but
GoIdfield has got character to burn
Cripple Greek is the greatest gold
! camp in the western hemisphere.
Goldfield is the greatest in Nevada.
Bisbee is the greatest copper camp in
| Arizona.
/ Cripple Creeks output for
/ 1906 --latest corrected gov
eminent report) ..--...--..-..-s15 900, 0OO
Goldfield's output for 1906
--latest corrected govern
ment report) --.--...---.--.-.---- Z ops, 154