Bisbee daily review., 1910-02-27
KNOCKERS ARE
GIVEN HARD RAP
BY AN OPTM|ST
Michigan Man, Heavily inter
eSted in Bisbee Mining Prop
ety, Declares Progress o.;
City Has Been Great.

Michigan iumberman VINO is quite
heavily interested in Bisbe copper.
properties. has recently spent a week
here investigating local conditions,
and before leaving for California talk
ed freely to a representative OF the
Review. saying. in substance :. when
asked to state mis- impressions of
Bisbee:
"Bisbee has improved. and hnprov-
ed a heap, since was here two and
three years ago. 1t has progressed
and bettered in many ways al things.
You have a few prominent citizens,
however. who seem TO have crouch.
la the old. immature days of 3isbee
we would have said they were tinct-
ured with the belly ache microbe. for
they seem to feel bad over the fact
that the mining business is being con-
Quoted with pick and shovel and
guide6 by brains instead cf chalk,
bulletin board anu ticker. they
are full of doleful tales OF the town
going down hill. and business being
on the bum. They get reminiscent
and tell with pride of the good cd
days when they made the Dem. auto
mobiles and liabilities. and did it by
not taking ore any further than the
brokers offices. These 1ssre he
good old days when they were busy
doing things. when the jingle of coin
resounded in the Orient; whep there
was no Warren or EoweH and when
Jiegeryille was but a stranger on
leachsd material.
Now l think Bisbee has forged
ahead since the three years ago when
] came here to pick out my winner.
Your Main street is a boulevard. J!
is clean and a credit 10 any city
Suppose we do see some ia Rent
signs. The people have not left the
town. They have just shifted so
as to live nearer their work. and
, where the hill is not so IA 4 TO climb.
Maybe you will admit thar yoa hi'
the people too hard f1- rent for a
residence that lacked modern inn
provements. vacuum cleaners, etc,
and could only boast OF sky line. Sc
the old homestead at S25 PER. is TEN
porar.ly turned over to the real es
tate agent
I Three years ago the country was
lpermeated with rrenzi I finance
Now the Saturday Evening Posi-
soothes the public with hookworm
Copper was paying tag with two bits
today. and for many lonesome days
it has fetched but half of two bits
While the camp has increased its out
put or ore. by reason Of he price
aforesaid. the output viii not par
chase more than half as much hilarity
rather more so formerly than f3r
some time hence, so to speak
MY main source of frugality and
hope is. and has been, the lumber
business. The price Of lumber in
these declining years has been ~
a par with copper and other -hings
except mxuries We have had tC
shut down our mills for hong periods
because we could not sell orr Inn
Der. haven't heard OF the Hisbe'
mines being shut down. for the rea
son that more copper is being pro
duced than the business needs o.
the country requires. Suppose yot
had been as badly on as the lumbel
towns and your only industry ha'
quit for four or six months. VIVA
would the croakeTs have done then
poor things2
"Bisbee is al right Il is NOR
metropolitan. more citiGcc. nore sui
, stantial. than ever before and is il
. position to go ahead on more sub
stantiaI basis. with greater assurance
Of solid permanency than ever befor
shoulder to shoulder. and eneourag
Only just remember this: Stan'
= voar home industries. quit knocking
take an inventory Of your progress
! and YOU will conclude that yea hav
J kept well up with the procession q
? .,..,o,t Fa.r uro0reSSiVa cities