Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-01-14

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ing peculiar pride in our beloved Ari-
iona and the great southwest.
We viii not burden this august body
by lengthy quotations OF figures and
statistics, which, since they are public
property, we have a right to assume
have come under the observation OF
every delegate present In the light OF
this statement we hope we may be
pardoned for dealing in generalities
and off-hand results.
When we reflect that our older sis
ters, Colorado, California, Montana and
Michigan employed score Of men in
their copper fields, while among the
sunny foothills of Arizona, a single
miner chlorided In the superficial style
for the red metal. with his Winchester
at his elbow, in momentary expecta-
ton of ambuscade at the hands of the
lurking Apache; when we reflect that
one level was added to another, as
the tardy railway grew closer and
closer. and as capital angled cautious
ly for years about the golden price;
when we stop TO consider that, despite
all of these difficulties, and with one
man at work today, where our older
prehensible to one who mas never Wis
in person. The open record of La Can
anea, and the Moetezuma districts,
along with a thousand smaller propo-
sition, which have produced millions
by ineficient, If not primitive methods,
would ill a volume of large proper
has made a host of friends and has
sisters have perhaps ten, with their I'M
limited capital and mighty machinery,
oil ns-r,fa TnlD 10 nd oh hax "a
successfully yielded the palm 10 Ari-
IONA as copper producer and Montana
will also yield by the end of 1907,
are we not compelled to attach most
profound importance to these signifi-
cant facts?
Do not these eloquent truths speak
volumes for the ore bodies in Arizona.
their extent, their richness and the
facilities which must surround thei
meager mining operations in the ter
ritory?
In the light of these happy condi-
tons, are we not compelled to admit
that Arizona is an industrial entity en-
titled to the highest recognition and
consideration at the hands of this
splendid body of just and considerate
men?
brought about by the output of the
copper mines of Arizona, conspicuous
", Bisbee, Jerome, Clifton, Morenci, |
Globe, and many others, surrounding |
Douglas. Tuns Cochise county. Ari- |
IONA, is the head and front of the
mighty impulse, and extraordinary re- |
sources, which give Arizona first place
as a copper producer in this country, |
despite che disadvantages under which |
it has labored.
Now, the city from which we have
the honor of being accredited, is in
Cocnise county, Arizona, it is the smell |
ter center of the southwest, as well as
for a field of custom operations OF
vast extent The field tributary to it /
in the territory of Arizona, great as it
is, is hardly more important than that,
whose wealth flows through it from
the wonderful mining area of Sonora, /
Mexico Space forbids and precludes
the possibility of granting the wonder
iulin mining fell of Sonora just men
lion in this connection. Its incom-
tons. This virgin field, which as vet
has barely been touched, as railroads
penetrate the mountains, year by year.
IS unfolding in point of mineral re-
source in a manner That challenges the
of the mining world.
Then the multitude of .undeveloped
with exceptionally fine
surface showings, constitutes the prin-
cipal attraction of capitalist from all
over the world, and the recent ava
anche of capital and enterprise moving
IN that direction has taken form in a
10 command the attention OF
The profession universally, before our
next congress shall have been called