Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-05
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 The Copper Queen Store.
 One of the first things that yisl- tor to Bisbee hears of is the Copper Queen store, and the more he stays here the more he will near about It. A business which started twenty-tWo years ago from a small single store room, and today does business Whlch must foot up into millions annually, cannot fail to interest the most cas- ual. the more so when 1t is learned that the business has been, during that entire time under the same man. agsmeut.
 To begin with, the Copper Queen store is. and has been since its De- ginning. a part of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company, of which Walter Douglas of Bisbee IS general manager, s. W. French Of Douglas assistant general manager, and " H. BroDhy of Bisbee Is store manager.
 Mir. Brophy is manager not only or the main store. which is in Bisbee, hut the brancn houses at Lowell, Naco and Douglas are under. his con trol. M. ]. Brophy is his assistant. Each of the branch stores has local manager. and in Douglas, where the second largest store of the group Is located. it has been found necessary to secure an assistant local manager
 In May 1899, thirteen years after the opening of the main store m Bls- bee. the company started a branch store in Eaco. At that time Naco was the point from which a large volume 0f freight was forwarded to Nacozari. W. G. Brown is the local manager.
 In May, 1902. another branch was oDened at Douglas. This, like the town, has shown a marvellous groWth in the Dast six years and ranks sec oDd in importance to the main store in Bisbee. The Douglas branch com mauds an eEtensiYe business east ward on the E. P. & s. W. into New Mexico and sOuthward below Naco- zari This branch carries all classes of merchandise in great varieties and in large quantities, as the 1oDDnS bnsiuess from the Smelter City store is ouite extensive. H. 4. SuodtnoII is local manager, H. E. Rice HIS aS- sistant
 Ht the last established, and IS only a little over two years old. The DuslneSs was purchased by the Copper queen interests from the Lowell Comner' cjal company, which, after operations covering a year, decided to close out. The idea of the Copper queen in buying it was to use it as point of distribution, principally for gro, cerfes. to the outlying districts oL Warren. Don Luis, South Bisoee anu | ovveU This gives these districts a better service than they formerly re ceiyed from the main store at BIS hoe and has been a matter Of great accommodation to that section in tne matter of spromptf service. A. T. Sowke. the local manager, has been connected with the store department of the company almost rom US m
 The CopDer Queen store is unique ;, many ways, and to an outsider who ia not familiar with conditions as fSev exist in Bisbee, the volume of bnsiness which is dona, both ,,.boeIsale and retail. and the con rIeteness and high grade of stock [-arried would be incredible. The men of the camp get good wages and tbay buy the best Of everything This applies equally to the women, SC far as the buying is concerned. Not only is the Copper Queen store in Bisbee complete in the stock which if carries. but it's store fixtures, meth, ods of business, etc, are such as will he found in the most up-to-date clt ies Ia fact, so far as volume ol i,psinsss. completeness of stock, at T,actiyeEess of fixtures and amount ,,f f1oo- space is concerned, there are gew cities in the United States, with nonuiafIon ranging from 5O,OOo to 35 eco, which have stores dolng Iht bnsinSss the Copper Queen does.
 trip through the different de narrpeats is revelation, durint mich oag goes from one surprise to anorber. with a constantly growing annreeiation of the organizatioh and management which must Dt hack of .o successful business ii is safe to assert that many of tne en,ptoyes of the Copper Queen con panv. have no idea of the extensive scope of the business. There i' scarcely an article of use to man