Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-10
COCH|SE TOWNS HAVE GREAT
 FUTURE

WlLLCoN. March A mat ter interesting the people of thii
 section at present is the develop
 ment going on in the nearby town, lof San simon and Dragon.
 Dragoon is station on the South
 ern Pacific road some 250 miles wea
 Of Fl Paso and is marked as being
 the highest point on that road be
 tween the cities of El Paso and Los Angeles. It is eradied in a pass ol
 the Dragoon mountains and from the
 nature Of its location is destined to
 make good as one of the coming
 towns of Southern Arizona. It's aln
 tude of 4614 feet will make it sought as a retreat for summer and it's shel. tering hills invite as a resort for winter. The canyons, ridges and val. leys about have long been settled by a most prosperous population of cat tlemen and it's territory is vastly rich in mineral deposits.
 : Today the spirit of the new Ari- zona is stirring the land and many new farm settlements are being dot ted in srb-irrigated spots and dry farming methods instituted on the uplands.
 Recently the county surveyor of Cochise county. j. A. Rockefellow, of Tombstone. has plated an so acre site at Dragoon station and interests are centering about the new town in a most enterprising way. Lots are selling, two new stores are complet- ed, auother. with postofice addition. is under way. a new school building, 24x36 is finished and occupied, plans for the erection of a union club house for the accommodation of mine visitors are in progress, a telephone system is installed, the Southern Pa cific plans to sink a road near by, and with the awakened activity of the surrounding mines. Dragoon is on the road to recognition as a place of moment
 In the mining interests there is nothing in Arizona more alluring. The Dragon semi-circle is famous for it's wealth of ore and within tho last few weeks much activity has been evidenced Several properties have changed hands and new capital is interested in unearthing values. s. A. Taylor of Pennsylvania has taken over the Arizona United prop erty and with diamond drills is to thoroughly prospect the holdings. l. encouraged. more machinery will be installed and the smeIter blown m again.
 The property doing the best work lat present is the Centurion Arizona company. Its location. one mile from Dragoon station, makes the matter of supplies and shipping of ores of easy handling. This property was diseov- cred by the present owner and super intendent J. P Richardson, who was at the time. 1899. an employee of the Copper Queen at Bisbee. Owing to the similarity of it's formation to the Copper Queen Mir. Richardson held the property and from time to time tested it's ores. Being convinced of it's value a conservative local com pany was formed. later taking in some outside interests. Its holdings now, free of all incumbrance, con. sists of 22 full sized claims of two groups. Group one contains II ccg- tiguous claims, all highly mineral ized. The principal working shaft of this group is now down 525 feet with four stations of many hundred feet of crosscuts ard drifts and some of the levels fitted with stopes. 4 sys tenn of caves lined with iron and high grade copper ore has been encoun- tered to the east of tbe main shaft on each level and underneath each cave has been found rich deposits Of ore.
 Contiguous to the Centurion prop erty is the Texas and Arizona, a lead and silver proposition consisting of fl claims, under active management of J. R. Hubbard. mining engineer.
 Also the Arizona-Cleveland. be:-s developed by the Stroud Bros. of Phoenix, the Teeter Stone Agurite Copper company, Los Angeles capital, the Princess group. Empire Gold and Copper Mining company, Arizona Mines and Shipping company. owned by Dragoon and Fl Paso people. Hig- gins Development company. J. D. Gregory claims and the O. T. Smith properties. while five miles to the north is the famous Johnson camp. and at RusselIviIle. four miles north, is found the Primos Chemical com pany of Pennsylvania, which Is work ing the rare tungsten ores found .n this locality.