Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21
FEW CROPS PLANTED
 IN HE WAR ZONE
Suffering Expected, but Plenty of Work in Mines
 Will Help
Douglas International,


 along the line of the Nacozari rail vay looks exceptionally well for thia time of the year. with the excep ton that the small grains and vege tables usually planted and success fully grown are almost wholly lacA ing There are good crops of win ter wheat just maturing, and ili many places hay is being harvested. 1 Charles A. Dinsmore of the El Paso Mining Journel returned yes terday from that country, accompa- nied by Mrs. Dinsmore, they having been away for a week; and Mir Dinsmore states that he was very greatly surprised. There will be suffering possibly because of lack of some of the things the people are accustomed to. but as there is plenty of work for all in the mlnes. Money will be available for purcnas- ing what has hitherto been raised. To show the condition there, Mir. Glennon, of the Pilares store of the , MOctezuma Copper company, told Mir. Dinsmore that practically all the beans. are now coming through in bond from the west coast country, and quantities of these came from the American colony in the vicinity o2 Esperanza. Acting Manager Myers of the same company, in charge at Nacozari during the absence of Mir. Melcher, told Mir. Dinsmore that practically all the corn comes from the United States, and that for much of the foodstuff usually purchased at home they were this year con- pelled to send away.
 But the people themselves do not seem to fear anything of a short age. In fact, one old man, whose three sons are with the liberales, said; Well. if we must We will get along with less. The boys should have gone, they wished to go, and We were willing they should. even though il has been upon their Ia- bors We have depended for years. But We shall make everything all right anyway, for surely the war soon will be ended. and then the sons will be back. Instead of work ing in the fields as before, they will be able to work at the mines, and so instead of what we gathered in the past We will have to buy" ! This is the general feeling. There certainly Is a feeling throughout the country that seems to spell but one thing-patriotism.
 l T just want to say a few words about the Moctezuma Copper com pany." said Mir. Dinsmore. T visited the mining camps of the southwest and northwestern Mexico, and l saw what the foreign capitalists are do. ing for the natives; but nowhere do l see a more patriotic spirit by any company than at Nacozari. When Jimmy Douglas was superintendent and J. s. Williams, Jr, assistant, they planned and made the town planned as if for their very own people. and built as for themselves. The result Is that the people there are more favOrably situated as to homes and surroundings than are people in similar walks of life in the United States. The homes of the poorest of the workmen are comfort able, well lighted, in pleasant places. and the sanitary arrangements which some of these people would utterly ignore are of the best because the company compels it thus.
 There sis a handsome church there, built by the company and do- AdANA lO Aut NdAADlACSs luttt lH q club house and library-a handsome building-erected by Dr. Douglas and donated to the people; there are first-class schools, the buildings do- mated by the company, and the com pany at this time employs, abso- lutely at company expense, ten Mex ican teachers, while in the American school, if the Mexican children care to go, there is always room. There are so many good things there, iB fact, and none bad, that one won ders why 1t is more companies do not go forward on the same broad principle, for thus surely are the peo- pie happiest and when an employe is contented he Is the best work man. It is really wonderful what ar intense interest, even the lesser class of employees take in the doing of their work in the best and most prompt manner. Nacozari, and Pi- lares, would be the proper field for the investigations of any who be- lieves that American interests in Mexico are inimical to the Mexican interests"