Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-02
The Sniff Boss Remarks

Yes. the old camp is beginning to look quite like itself again. Sure I notice it and so do we all. how could we help it. An it's fourteen cent cop. per an all that that means what is doln' it. To ] think the price will 20 higher. I do. l think it will go to fifteen cents anyway and maybe a lit tie higher, perhaps even to sixteen but l should not like to see it 20 fyin' above such figures as that. Ye see l was here when we had twenty five cent copper an while 1t looked good to some at tn time an I WIZ one of that some. not knowin' any better then, it would be a sorry day if those times should come again.
 An that reminds. I wuz a readin' a editorial a few days ago from a paper that is published in a city out side of Arizona, but what thinks it knows what the people O. Arizona wants an is always teilin' us what Is best for us an what we ought to do. of course accordin' to it's own out side point of view We'll this paper congratulated Arizona on the higher prices in tn metal market. which was all right enough It told what the better prices meant but then 1t went on to say that the higher copper vert the better it would be for Arizona Now, that's where our dear friend who knows all about Arizona went wrong The higher copper goes above a certain price, a price of say fifteen or sixteen cents the worst for Arizona an for the copper industry general ly. That price is high enough to make many a property get down to work again and ship to tn smelters and it is high enough to encourage develop ment Il would mean a steady boost for the mines Of Arizona an beyond that figure it would mean Q boomer. ang that would come back an slap us hard in tn face. just as happened be fore. We want continued prosperity and no imitation and with twenty cen, copper it would sure mean another bubble No, the editor what wrote that wasn't wise 10 tn game. Ii sounded fine but here in the mines ve meet conditions and not mere theO ries
 Did ye ever happen to think that nature is a better cOnseryaiOnist than Clifford Pichot, Tiddy Rosenfelt Bill Taft, Ballinger, Fisher an all the rest of 'em? We'll she is. l. . 8 wise provision that tn metals are stored in out o' the way places Bisbee was out O the way once. II it wasn't as it is we would be a usin up all that we have ell at once like It will be years before our mines here give out an not so long in othel places ye know of. I know it seems hard to tn feller what has been out in tn hills an found a good prospec ' away off somewhere that he cant ge capital 10 come in and develop now ! because it costs too much to marke ! the ore. He is too far away today ! but tomorrow his property will be nea CT That's what nature has done SC as not to let us use up all her treas ures at once Yes she's wise to us al right.
 Tn kid thinks it'd be fine to have all tn candy he could eat all a ! oncet. That's his idea of a good time
 When he tries # oncet he learns ant sees it's best to have some now, more
 tomorrow an some more again neX
 week Well. that's tn way it i
 with copper. see.
 Well seeing it's tn last day of th
 year I'll just go you. Yes, one of thos,
 hot ones they hand out in a shavin
 mug.