Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-05
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The immense floor space Of the Te- tail department, the high grade and completeness of it's stock, the rich ness of its fixtures, and the astonish- ment with which the average visitor to the camp greets them, are fairly fa- miliar to most of the readers of the Review. Here are found the grocery department. the dry goods depart ment, shoes, tewelTy, hardware, fur niture, drugs, gents furnishings, etc. A rest room for ladies is being fit ted up on one of the second floors, 1 in which will be placed telephone, and other cOnveniences, for the use of patrons. The millinery department | is also on this floor. In the attic are stored carpets and rugs, etc.
 One of the most noticeable things to the new arrival in Bisbee is the Inewly completed immense warehouse ! of the Copper Queen company just | west of the depot. This building is | four stories high. in addition to a | Ibasem ement. is built of cement blocks, ialOng the lines of what is known as Imin constructions, and is heavily 1 timbered with long leaf Texas pine. | The warehouse is divided into three compartments by fire walls which run from the top to the bottom, with | fire proof doors between. practically making three buildings of the one. Each of the floors is really three 1 layers in thickness, the upper layer being maple. Some idea of the sub stantial structure of the warehouse may be gained from the fact that the , lower floor, il is estimated, will ca silly sustain weight of 1000 pounds J to the square foot, the second. 800 1 pounds. and the third 400 pounds. | The total cost of he building was about SS0,0OO.
 The facilities for handling freight | are all that could be desired. Loaded cars are run directly onto the build | ing, from which they can be carried ! on electric elevators to any part of
 the warehouse. In addition to the el- eyators there is a stairway from each floor to the other.
 In walking into the warehouse from i the main store, over the bridge"
 which unites the two and practically makes them one building, one is first 1 of all impressed Wifyl the ordErly arrangements Of-the warehouse, and { the fact that this is made possible by ' v
 ! The top floor of tine warehouse is devoted to the company's reserve of l crCckeTy, tinwaTe, furniture, etc. Here one finds in an apartment heav- 1 fly screened, invoices running back 1 for many years, and so arranged that any particular invoice for any arti-
 Cic purchased in any. year may he ob- ! tained almost instantly. The large lEHrVV wy.1., l lper Queen is kept in a section of the ! building especially constructed for keeping these goods moist. the com partment being airtight.
 One of the most unique and at the same time economic plans of filling grocery orders that could be con ceived, has been designed by Mir. Bro phy. In the Copper Queen store lprOper are kept samples of every Ithing that is for sale in the grocery department Orders are taken here by men especially selected for that purpose. But no orders are filled from the stock from which selections lare made. Instead, the orders are lsent to the grocery department in the warehouse, where the stock from which the orders are filled is kept. in this department no orders are re iceived. The amount of confusion IaVoided and the superior attractive iness of arrangement gained by this lmPthod are inconceiyable without re Election.
 In the grocery department in the warehouse one finds perhaps the
 most complete stock of groceries in the southwest, not only in quantity. tbut in quality. 4 section of the cold
 storage plant of the warehouse con- meets with this department, in which are kept in separate compartments,
 ready for shipment, butter, eggs, cheese. etc.
 In another part of the warehouse are found beers. wines. champagne feed stuffs of all kinds, building ma.
 terial, candy, etc, etc. and all of them representing Q volume of busi. ness which is complete in itself.
 1 On the first floor, below the gro cery department, is the main cold storage department, where compart ments again separate each article placed in storage from articles diff fcrent from it. The sale Of eggs will
 be an index to the volume of busf ness of the grocery department. The icOnsumption averages nothing less lthan two car loads each month. Wa
 teTmelons are also received by the
 ear load. together with oranges. lem Ions. and other fruits. all of which
 are kept in storage.
 The foundation is at present being
 laid for the installation of an engine
 which will be used to create a forced ldraft for the pneumatic tube sys tem which is being installed. and
 which will extend to the various
 parts of the main building and the warehouse.
 fl After one leaves the big warehouse |, land begins to visit the others which
 are used by the company, he begins
 to wonder where it will all end. In these are to be found immense hard
 ware reserves, paints, building mate
 rial, drug reserves, sewer fixtures
 corrugated iron. supplies for mines
 powder, mining machinery, plumbing and electrical fixtures. assaying ma terial pipe fitting supplies. drilling machinery. etc, etc. It should be re menlbered that each of these lines i: carried in such a volume that an in
 mense business in each must be done
 to justify it.
 The total floor space of all the
 stores and warehouses is 200,00C