Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-15
EYES ARE ON
 COPPER CREEK
 AND SAN PEDRO
Trade of That Rapidly De- Veloping Section Is Becom- ing An Object To Business Men of Tucson.

IT CSOE. DC t4-. .SpcciG -- With revival in the prices in cop per all southern Arizona will boom. The embers of diversity have now died cut and await but a strengthen ing of values in the red metal. when the flames Of production will burst afresh and treble the present output of minerals.
 In the neighborhOod of Mammouth and on Copper Creek. about 15 miles 10 the northeast, lie some of the big gest copper bodies known to the south west. At present these properties are handicapped in the matter or transportation, but branch road, from the Phoenix & Eastern, or more probably from the Southern Pacific, is certainty, and that as soon as trade conditions will warrant, ana this will come with the expected ana inevitable advance of copper.
 The Mammouth mines have been an important factor in the development and upbuilding of Tucson, and an ef- tort should be made to hold its busi- ness in this direction. although the togn can not hope to dominate the Copper Creek trade without connect ing railroad. because of distance. The Phoenix & Eastern road. with its sta ton at Winkieman, but 25 miles away. offers advantages in the way of trans portation far beyond the present pos abilities of Tucson.
 The ore bodfees on Copper Creek are of immense size and being of rath- CT low grade, must be worked on mammoth scale, and with several con- panies, arrangements to that end are now being made. Outside of the cor poratio1s there are at least half q dozen other promising groups, held by as many people, and for which good prices are sure to be obtained. Notably among them is the Hawkins group. It lies east of the American Eagle, aud is said to be among the best properties in the district About a thousand feet of work has been done on the property in tunnels, drifts, cross cuts and shafts, and the outlook for big mine is said to be unusually promising. Like it's neighbors, capital is needed for a better development of it's values, and this at present hard working owners do not command. Mir. A Fl. Pool is the controlling spirit in this property, and has anounced his willingness to not stand in the way Of fair ioffera
 The Tomboy and the Rumble Bee groups are sure to demand the atten- ticn Of mining men, and sooner or lat CT will join in the uplift movement, and add largely to the increasing wealth of southern Arizona Capital seeking investment will do we'll to lcok them over.
 Water isj abundant in the district. and wood is temporarily plentiful in the immediate neighborhood, and an abundance can be had at no great dis tance.
 The Copper Creek people believe they have second Bisbee, and that the day is not far distant when the district will number it's population by more than twice ten thousand.
 The trade Of the district vii un- doubtedly be immense, sufficient in fact to support a town of 25,O00 or 39.000 people, and a town of that size will be the inevitable result of min eraI development. 4 half dozen years ago Bisbee was less than half its present size, and Douglas st the time was unborn. Today. combined, they have population that far exceeds Tucson. aud is being almost daily aug mented Like towns and like popula- ions must be looked for on the Lower San Pedro, and it is and will be up 10 Tucson to reach for this trade or lose it's neighbors. The distance be tween twenty-five and seventy miles means Phoenix and not Tucson. The difference is a days haul, and that one day's haul will be the death of oar tratfe
 This matter, may at this time, be treated as thing of indifference, bur If one half of the reports of the dis trict be true, the time is not far dis tant when we must face tae inevita- bic drestion of trade or no trade. 2 Without such means of communica-