Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-26
KELLY TALKS
 OF COCH|SES
 PROSPERITY
In Interview at Phoenix Dis cusses General Condition of Country = Mining Situation the Feature.

The following is from Tuesdays edition of the Phoenix Democrat:
 What are the conditions in Cor chise county" was asked of George H. Kelly. who is here today from Douglas attending the meeting of the territorial democratic committee. Kelly's reply was as follows:
 Why, judging conditions there in the light of reports of the industrial conditions from other parts of the country, should say, unhesitatingly, that Cochise county has been ex- tremely fortunate in not being caught in the very wake of the finan- cial cyclone which struck the country last fall. We were near enough, how ever, to feel the swish of the wind and hear the crash of the tumbling industries when. the fiercest gale was blowing.
 "As you know, the chief source of prosperity in Cochise is the copper industry. In the month of october the principal companies curtailed pro duction at the big Douglas smelters about one-third, stopping several fur naces and laying of probably 30 per cent of the employees. At the begin ming of the year two of the idle fur naces were put back into action, and since then two more were heated up. At present the Calumet and Arizona smelter is operating five 300-ton fur naces and the Copper Queen is ope- rating eight 500-ton furnaces.
 'So far as Bisbee ore is concerned the amount now being smeIted is practically what it was a year ago. The copper output from the Copper Queen smelter is less now than a year ago because of the falling away of custom ores from the numerous small copper mines in southern Ari- zona, southern New Mexico and from the state of Sonora.
 At the Queen smelter there are now two, 500-ton furnaces idle. The custom ore coming to Douglas year ago would more than supply one of these. The custom receipts now amount to little.
 '"Yes, it looks like the republicans in ,Cochise county are in for a livelier scrap now than ever The republican county committee met in Bisbee and, ignoring the plain direction or the territorial committee in regard to pri- maries, appointed the thirty delegates to the Tucson convention. There is opposition to this action, and petitions are now being circulated by the dis satisfied calling for primaries in ac- cordance with the territorial call. Just what will happen, further than the bitter factional fight promised, which will likely reach the territorial con vention in Tucson, cannot be foretold
 "So far as the democrats in my county are concerned they are undis- turbed by friction. Everyone believes that w. J. Bryan will be nominated and practically all of them are glad of it.
 City elections in Bisbee and Doug las are now attracting some attention and the democrats, I think, will win easily in both places.
 Douglas has continued its marvel GUS growth during the past year. The Gadsden hotel was completed three months ago and it is the finest hotel to be found anywhere in the west Anyone who has seen 1t since 1t was opened will bear out this claim.
 During the year 1907, as near as can be estimated, s1,000,000 was in vested in buildings and smelter en Judgements.
 Our city is in fine shape. A sew CT, system covering the entire city, was completed last year; the fire de partment has been equipped so as to place Douglas in the list of protected cities, according to the fire insurance companies. thus giving the city mini- mum insurance rates"