Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-03
GREENLEE WILL
 MOVE FORWARD
School Superintendent Is Enthusiastic When He Tells of Pro-
 gress Made
NEW MINE ACTIVITY

Superintendent lf Schools J. Wiley Aker Of Greenlee county, who has been in Phoenix for the past ten day $, is especially enthusiastic about the prospects of his county. the Gazette states. He is now in the city con ferring with the mem-ers of the leg iSlature with regard to the proposed school legislation. and also with re- gard to a s60.0OO bond issue for the erection of a new court house for Greenlee county. to be located at Clifton.
 While Greenlee county. Arizona. is the baby county in the state. having leen elected into q county but two years ago, it does not mean hy any means that it is less progressive. less prosperous. or has any less d bright future than any other portion of the state In fact. the residents of that county think they live in the lest portion of the entire state. They point to the mountains, rich with ore beyond the dreams Of avarice; they point to the smiling valleys. as fer tile as any in the world, and with these as a basis they show you pros porous towns, growing communities, with an excellent school system, towns lighted with electricity, with water systems. and beyond all this a steady ingress of new residents to increase the already aggressive popu- lation.
 The chief towns in Greenlee are Clifton, the county seat, and Morencl- These two towns have grown mp m the oldest mining camps in the state, and here the copper output per month is over S,000.000 pounds. The popula- ton of Clifton is 5000, based upon an intelligent comparison Of the school census.
 In connection with the school cen sus. it is doubtless well to note that Greenlee county mas just lately sold a bond issue of S40,000 and is building three magnificent new school houses in the Ciifton-Morenci district. And it is to spend S60.O00 in erecting a brand new court house.
 With copper reaching fifteen cents the prospect of additional prosperity in this section is exceedingly rosy. so much so that there IS at present great renewal Of mining activity m the county. In the neighborhood oi Duncan, new discovery or copper deposit has caused a rush oI miners 10 that place. In canyon known as Apache Box, close to the town or Duncan, the Guggenheims have bonded q property and are now en- gagged in erecting a mill for the test ing of a large body of ore. Most or tue residents of the county, especially tue old miners, are Of the opinion that the discovery must be worth while or the Guggenheims would not take the trouble to build a mill to prospect with.
 The work in the box has inspired other activity, so that a company has been formed and the old workings "t Carlvsle. which have been tlooded for a number Of years, are now Delhs pumped out preparatory to "orkills this old-time wealthy mine.
 Mining. however, is not all there is in the new county Of Greehiee. Farming plays a large part Tn s nef ,rosnerity' The beautiful upper Glia valley is located in this county, where inc soil is so fertile that the earS farmers have made large sums oi money in raising products Tor the aaetern markets. In one case one ol tba farmers near the little settlement of Richmond. on the eastern sue U, inc county, cleared sl,O00 cn a sh'"'i batch of onions. ui.,
 The county seems to be well stu, .,ed from the standpoint or reaciiiMis M ,be % growing markets of that section and garden truck and farm produce e for which there is always slea' rne Ie ,,,and crows in great abundance ne farming is under comhuhilS y, tem ,eI 7 of irrigation and so far has been been ,'arv ,.r V successful. There is still a large pumber of acres of this land 9otaln. ,,. able That under the dltcn o,tnide Dt.H7o aIont sIO0 an acre, while that outsiue .ho ditcb sells for little less.
 WI Ml'n ss a zoo 0Co. with growing com nnpities. thriving farmers, and won derful mines, Greenlee county nas ., rosy future second to no Se0''0i
 the entire southwest
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