Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-04
VISITOR SEES BTSBEEI Greatest Copper Camp Has PecuiaritieS That Make It
 Absolutely Unique
Absolutely Unique.

tBy Frederick J. Hsskin in Fl Paso
 Herald)
 A score of years ago Arizona was known as the Land of Sunshine and Silver" In those days its people were so devoted to silver that they refused to accept statehood unless they be permitted to establish the silver standard in their constitution. Arizona still has the sunshine and still pro. duces the silver. but nowadays the silver is a mere by-product obtained from the vastly more profitable cop per mines. In Phoenix, the capital of the state. the two greatest interests of the people of Arizona are indicated by the fact that the newspapers print on the first page, above the heading, fin large type. the stage of the water in the irrigation reservoir and the price of copper.
 Upon irrigation and upon copper is builded the prosperity of this new state, but as far as money is con cerned the greater of these is copper. Arizona produces more copper than any other state, the production for 1910 being nearly 800 900. .O00 pounds. valued at more than S37 900 .0O0. The silver produced in the same year was valued at S1.5S5,0 900. nearly .all of which was obtained as a by-prOduCl from copper ores. Approximately hali of the total copper produced came from the great Warren district sur. rounding Bisbee.
 Arizona mining camps now that copper is queen, are not like the weGt- ern camps of the oldeI days when gold and silver were the only metals worth looking for. and when there were Bret Hartes and Mark Twains to sing their sagas. The enormous mechanical equipment of the modern copper mine presupposes the highest physical civilization and every mining camp wear diadem of electric lights in recognition of the fact that the electrical age has brought copper again to the fore from among metals. as it was aecns ago when culture vas born with the bronze age.
 "Bisbee the Greatest Camp."
 Bisbee, the greatest camp in AriZn na, having the greatest mines. IS unique in spite of it's millions of dol lars worth O. machinery. Built at the bottom of a deep and narrow gulch overflowine into radiating rayines AAC AtU AAAN tiA fiANbNo AAANfs-+A~ ain sides. Bisbee Is squeezed in so tight that there seems to be hardly room for a town 70 breathe.
 Room is so precious that none cal he devoted to streets. and, therefore, except for a few blocks in The busi- ness district, Bisbce has no Iesideuual streets, and its residential portions are gained often by trails, many ot them 90 steep that they might be called ladders.
 Government Salaries Too Low.
 Bisbee is the largest town in the United States without mail delivery seryice-there being two reasons for il: One is that there are no residence streets, and consequently no street numbers and the other Is that no- body can be found willing 10 work for the low wages at which Uncle Sam starts in his letter carriers Bisbee has the only postolfiCe that is run exclusively by women, as there arc no men willing to work for &he wages given post office clerks. A a cOnse- quence, the Bisbee Postogice has more lock toyes than any other town in the country, not accepting even the largest cities.
 No Chinese in Bisbee.
 Bisbee is the most compact city il the country, having more business in the same area than any other town Of like population, having less street space for the business done in this area. and incidentally more saloons in proportion to thes population than any other town in the world. lt k ihe only western mining camp of any size that has not now. nor never has had Chinaman in the town, the local oriental exclusion ordinance being noLe the less eflicacious because it is an unwritten law.
 Douglas the Smeiting Town.
 Twenty-Five miles away, and total ly dissimilar in every physical aspect,