Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-11-29
'SPECTATORSAW
BISbEE'S L|FES
Feature Story in Outlook
Gives Description of I'm
pressionS Received
flere
UNFORTUNATE BULL

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the present year The Spectator visited
Bisbee, probably sizing up the oppor.
tuHity for stocking this country with
Bull Moose Whatever the purpose OF
MS visit he included in his depart
ment in the Outlook for November q
very Interesting description of wha,
he saw in Bisbee and on a nearby
ranch. The story follows:
u was in the middle OF August and
the Spectator Was buried in the throes
OF summer vacation. He had chosen
a trip through the Southwest, featur-
ing the so-called bad lands" OF Ari.
IONA, the mining sections. and the
| great cattle country. IL was here
That the Story writer's had found the
heart OF Western romance. The Spec.
Itaior wanted 10 confirm some of their
statements about bad men, Indians.
land farriding cowboys.
So it was that the Spectator went
straight to the throne Of the great
Southwest where the Queen of Cop
/ FER reigns supreme. Here the Little
mining town OF Bisbee Arizona. sap
ports It's transient population from the
enormous mines of the Copper Queen
and Calumet and Arizona II is a town
of one industry-everything pertain
| ing to copper. As one looks for the
first time upon this little cluster OF
barren mountains, it seems as if the
! Creator had left il branded forever
with the stamp of utter and irredeem.
able sterility. All the producing germs
OF nature seem TO have passed Il by
unnoticed But how perfect is the
! mask Beneath this arid cover lie
millions OF dollars worth OF copper
yet Unntned
4 thousand feet underground the
Spectator was shot on q lightning.
speed elevator One has strange sen.
sations when nearly a quarter Of a
mile beneath the surface Of things
But here were endless mazes OF
tracks, shaft-tunnels. and stope.holes.
In the dim yellow light OF torches men
we're working and sweating every
where. 4 new little word OF strange
phantom shades, hideousiy disyropor
TONED figures, and damp-smelling air
was opening its tragic secrets. Here
was man at the very bowels OF the
~.
Stepping gingeTly through mud-thick
tunnels, peerins in at gaping black
stope-hOles, the Spectator followed his
Stygian guide. husky, dirt-besmeared
Young engineer. to the region OF the
ore vc-ns. Here the chugging OF
steam-drills, the Shrek OF spent pow.
CT. and the occasional boom OF the
blast told al what heavy price the
earth was releasing its buried wealth.
Work is spelled with a capital let
Ter IN a mining town 1t is written by
the sweat Of mems brOws, and is the
product OF Drawn and muscle pitted
! AGAINST the tragic elements of the
| earth. In the larger mines the cy
/ Gle OF work goes on as constantly as
the revolution of the earth upon its
/ aNIs-twenty-iour bours a day. seven
/ days week, and hfty-two weeks a
year. There are no Sundays, no hol
( idays. Night shift relieves day shift
/ with The regularity of cloCkwork. Men
! work and sleep. and wake again to
/ work. There are few, if any. real
! pleasure sources or amusements. So
sfeat Is the percentage OF labor. one
seems TO forget that beneath it all
lie some Of the greatest scientific
minds in the country. Back Of every
muckstick and in every ounce OF ore
that Is raised to the surface. there
Is the solution OF some stuBendous en-
cheering problem. Silently. incon.
sPcuously, the brain has paved the
way TOR labor.
One afternoon the Spectator Dor.
rowed a bronco and rode ort to a
cattle range. When he reached the
rancho he had the thirst Of a thou
sand deserts in his throat. The good
natured ranchman led HIM to a
strengthening oarthen jar than hung
IN iull exposure to the biistering sun.
shine. One would have expected 10
find very warm drink in such place.
Dut the water was as cold as ice. The
device is called an ola. and the cool
ing Of the water is produced BY rapid
evaporation. The vessel is made os
adobe clay by the Mexicans. and its
porous composition permits the water
inside to seep slowly through. so that
as tast as IL reaches the surface the
moisture is evaporated Il IS only in
very dry climates chat the device is
feasible. But on the desert. where ice
is an unknown luxury, the ola is al
most Indispensable
The Spectator was about to con.
TIME his journey across the desert
into Mexico when something in one
OF the cattle pens attracted his a..
tention. Three vaqueros were engaged
In saving OFF the horns OF a great
Mexican bull. HE killed another of
my hybrid bulls this morning" ex.
planned the ranch-owner. Hes an
arena fighter that ! bought from a
matador at Juarez" The animal was
indeed fighter. II took a heavy stock
and reams Of thick rope 20 hold him
while the three vaaueros relieved
: him OF his dangerous antlers. When
he task had been completed. ,they
turned him loose aud We ali watched
him lumber OF towards a small water.
hole lie was evidently the maddesi
bull in all Arizona. and intended to
let the other denizens Of the range
know as much.
Believing forth terrific challenges
be approached the halfdried pond. On
the farther side stood big Texan