El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

terest of the big PhelpS-Dodge cor
poration is copper; the secondary in
terest is to move the copper, i. E.,
transportation.
Calumet & Arizona.
The belief of the other big mining
company, the Calumet & Arizona, in
the future. of Bisbee, is evidenced by
the fact that it has begun the con-
struction of a mammoth smelter at
Douglas. OF this company, Walker
says: ''The Calumet & Arizona prom
Uses to be a 1ong-liyed mine and a
very big dividend payer. I see no
reason to doubt that the property
may be putting out 1000 to 5000 tons
daily so or 40 years hence. What will
probably prove to be the largest con-
tinuous ore body of very high grade
copper ore ever developed in the Bis
bee district, or anywhere else for that
matter, is now being opened up in
its Junction ground"
While the Shattuck has closed down
during the present year, it was not
because of scarcity Of ore or the low
grade of ore. On the contrary, the
mine was closed because the very
high grade Of the ore made it incon-
sistent with good business to take it
out Of the ground at the prevailing
price of ore. The Shattuck is being
started up again on short notice.
Agriculture.
While mining is Bisbee's vocation,
it has its avocations While the Ell
Paso and Mesilla valleys are being
made to produce crops through river
irrigation, the valleys of southern
Arizona, in Bisbee's trade territory,
are turning their attention to agri-
culture Wonders are being worked
in the San Pedro valley and apparent
impossibilities in the way of making
things grow are being solved by irri-
cation. Each year, a larger acreage
is added to the titled section OF. the
valley and each year the crops are
larger and better In the ella valley
the best cropseever raised in Arizona
are being harvested this year. Each
day Of the harvest season wagons
loaded with produce from these two
fertile valleys come into Bisbee with
their produce which they barter for
the thing they need. While agricul-'
ture is as yet in its infancy in these
valleys, the direct marketing Of their
produce is significant indication of
the commercial possibilities Of agri-
culture in southern Arizona With this
dual source of income, the POSSIBLE
tiles OF southern Arizona would ap-
pear to be unbounded.
Settlers Crowding In.
If artesian water indications in the
San Simon section make good their
promise, another fertile valley will
have been added to Bisbee's trade
territory. A dozen wells or more are
being sunk in that section and while
there have been disappointments,
many of these wells promise to give
good flows. In a country where min
ing has always been regarded as the
chief industry and where the staff of
life is made of metal, these things
are very significant.
The Sulphur Springs valley, the
nearest to Bisbee, is rapidly settling
up and despite agricultural disap
pointments of the past, the hope. that
it will some day be one of the most
productive valleys of the southwest
seems well founded, for the settlers
continue to come. The rapid influx
Of settlers has made it necessary for
the county to survey all county roads
through the valley to prevent the set
tiers from fencing in the roadways.
The possibilities of agriculture IN
this section are nowhere better indi-
Gated than on the Warren ranch, a
few miles below Bisbee. This ranch
is supplied by water from the mines
and on it is raised everything in the
vegetable line that is raised on the
California ranches and the quality is
equally fine. The local markets are
supplied daily with fresh vegetables
from this ranch, but the supply Is
not adequate. The determination of
southern Arizona to find water for
irrigation purposes is epitomized in
the motto of one of the well diggers
in the San Simon vicinity: Water,
hell or China" The fertility of the
soil has been demonstrated. Water
will make of southern Arizona
perennially blooming garden.
Good Roads.
Another epoch marking movement
in southern Arizona is good roads
building. One of the greatest handi-
caps that southern Arizona towns have
had to contend with has been their
desert fnsularity." This is about to
be solved, so far as Cochise county
and southern Arizona is concerned, by
the building of the territorial high
way. Past differences between the
territorial board of control and the
Cochise- county supervisors are about