Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-23
SHELTER CITY Is DUE
 TO BE BIG METROPOLIS

Anyone acquainted with the country surrounding and tributary to Douglas must be impressed with the idea that it is only a matter of time when this city win be the greatest copper city in the west It is surrounded by three of the great copper producing districts of the west-Bisbee, Cananea and Ma cozari. The location of Douglas is almost the center of a triangle with these producing copper districts at each point of the triangle.
 Besides the producing mines of these districts there are many other mines which have been developed to that state which guarantees future production. In between these districts lies much rich mineral country which has never been developed to an extent required to demonstrate the hidden wealth, but which gives great prom ise for the future.
 best quality for operating machinery in this vicinity was the propellins cause for the location of the present smelting plants here. The same cause which brought the Copper Queen and Calumet & Arizona smell ters to Douglas will bring other smell ters to this city whenever they are demanded by other mining companies having need of reduction works in this section of the territory.
 Already copper ores are coming to Douglas from the new Courtland dis trict and from Gleeson and it is be- ieved that the Shattuck-Arizona will yet build a shelter here. The Shat tuck has large bodies of excellent ores ready to feed shelter the size of the original one constructed by the Calumet & Arizona. Further west in the Chiricahua mountains there is considerable being done in the way Of developing copper mines and what ore there has been produced around Paradise has mostly been reduced in the Copper Queen shelter here. Not only does the ores from the nearby districts seek reduction here. but when the copper mines were ac- tive throughout southern Arizona and New Mexico ores were shipped to Douglas from Globe, Pima county, from many districts in New Mexico and from Mexico. as far down as Moe tezuma Ore has been smelted in Douglas at a good profit which was packed on burros for more than fifty miles.
 The extension of the railroad south from Nacozari will open much rich copper territory which will be tribu- tary to this city and from which ores will be shipped here for reduction. In that part of Sonora tributary to Doug las is a country rich both in mineral and agricultural possibilities; the de- velopment which will come from rail road construction in this territory will add immensely to the prosperity and growth of this city.
 The copper industry will not always be dragging as 1t has been for two years it will have its season of pros perity, just as other great industries are having prosperity from one end of the country to the other today. With the revival of the copper indus try there is not city in the south west that will receive more benefit from it than Douglas.
 Whatever is to he done by Douglas in the future for the growth and pros perity of the city there is nothing so important as the encouragement of the mining industry in the tributary country. The mining industry has been the bone, sinew and marrow of our industrial prosperity in the past and it must remain as our principal support until such time as there is conservation of the underground flow of the Sulphur Springs valley to that extent which will make agricultural pursuits profitable. Much has already bee accomplished in a small way in developing agriculture and we expect to see much more accomplished along that line in the future, but out i'm mediate opportunity and support must remain in the mines.
 Douglas is Fortunate
 Thus it is fitting time to consider how really fortunate is the city of Douglas and her inhabitants. Here at the lower end of Sulphur Springs valley lies the young Shelter City right at the international boundary line and guarding ths gateway to one of the worlds great treasure houses, whose wealth is practically unsurmis, ed surrounded on all sides by one of the richest countries, mineralogic, ally, in the universe and the true rich, ness of which is also only commenc.
 ng to be appreciated. Stretching north from her doors is a valley which may be expected to develop agricul, Lurally and on which there is being development work done to prove it's worth. Above is the Arizona sunshine EBMauHUlEHUH glDIlVEHJlIYaYIBIgH Ef Ska1NHEY1INh%H