Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-04

is the smelting town Of Douglas, the home of the Copper Queen and the Calumet and Arizona smelters. having monthly output Of 14,000 O0O pouD', {, Of copper smelted from the ors J the Bisbee-Warren district. I A, ,.as is built on the plains. suirou ied by a wide eXpsnse of level country, made fertile by pump irrigation and going long way towards supplying the de. mand for food of the 5000 people who live in Douglas aud most of whom gain their livelihood uom copper. Although it is one of the busiest and most prosperous towns in the new state, Douglas is a mere baby in age being only 10 years old
 Cllfton-morenei District.
 The oldest copper district in the southwest centers around Clifton-Mo- renci and Metcalf, near the eastern boundary line of the state The first copper mine in Arizona was here, pro ducing free smelling ore that was readily reduced Tn crude adobe fur. naces by charcoal fuel The first rail road m Arizona was a "baby-gauge' road connecting this old. Longfellow mine With the furnaces at Clifton. Nowadays little free ore is found. and that taken out requires primary re- duction in concenrrators. Clifton is built along the San FranCisco river and Chase creek and the smelters and coucentratOrs are in the heart O. the town. The orc railroads 10 Met cali, seven miles north, run through picturesque mountains not surpassed in thes whole world for scenic effects Copper mining was begun here when all material had to be hauled overland from La Junta, Colorado and in those days when every pack train was sub. ject to attack of savage Indians.
 A mile and half from Clifton, as the raven flies, but more than three miles by road, is the town of Morenci, having a population of 5000 people It is owned absolutely by the Phelps DCdge interests and the Arizona Cop per company, a Scotch concern. The companies lease ground 10 their em- lloyes for the erection Of homes, charging q dollar a year ground rent and 90 dollar moIBh for sanitary services. This town furnishes the most conspicuous example Of eniorceC sanitation in the United States, sew ge connections being compulsory. The companies have built a beautiful hotel, a luxurious club house two school houses. and in many other ways have endeavored to improve the sociological sort of plutOcratic social. ism It is the unanimous verdict Of al visitors that the experiments have proved to be most successful
 No Saloons.
 Supplies aIe furnished by huge de- uartmeut stores oIcratcd by the com pany, there are no saloons and no liquor is sold except from the -coni- panys stores Tn original packages. !
 Possibly the best known Of the southwestern mines is the United Verde, at Jerome. the northernmpst Of all the large Arizona copper mines. l. is the property oi former senator W A Clark, oi Montana. This mine produces a great deal Of silver as 3 by-product. its copper ores are said to be very high iE grade and it is certain that 1t retujns gross income Of more than SG,G0O,o0o a year. a. though Senator Clark does not even pretend to work the plant to its full capacity.
 Six years ago when copper was selling around 25 cents d pound and speculation wa5 universal, the pros rerity Of these Arizona mining towns exceeded even that Of the fablad golden cities Of Cibola. but when. after the panic Of 1907, copper dropped to l2 cents there was an !'l- ' eyitable reaction. The speculative values were in large part destroyed and there was the usual distress that attends the bursting of a boom. But, nevertheless, copper mining is prof itable business the people who en- gage in it are prosperous, these min in" camps are thrifty and industrious; and copper, even at t4 cents a pound still IS queen, in Arizona