Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03
coCHISE COUNTY KEEPING PACE.

KEEPING PACE. Residents of Arizona may well look with complacency at the remarkable growth in population and splendid progress made industrially as general I ly reported throughout the youngest state. but no where is there more csuse for this than here in Cochise county, which easily maintains ap un- disturbed premiership in wealth and prosperity and holds its own we'll with all other sections as to increase of population. There are few sections of this great county that are standing still, none are going backward and Eearly all are making rapid advance ment. going forward in leaps and bounds. Here in Bishee ali are we'll acquaint. cd with progress that is being made in local mining, of the rapid increase in population and in wealth that the Warren District has recently been making. that never in its history was it more populous than at this time and that plans well underway make for still further increased prosperity, for a better and still larger Warren Dis trict. Douglas reports similarly great progress and that young city is out stripping in rapidity of growth any other in the state. This has been stim- ulated by the new smelter building that has been in progress but it hes other underlying reasons. But here in Bisbee the average citizen is prone to heed only mining activity and not consider other industries. This is es- pecialy so as to agriculture and it is worth while to pause and consider it's growi,g importance, to note the growth of county in the outlying coun- try.
 Seven years ago there were prob ably rot more than hundred fami- lies of settlers farming in the Sul- phur Springs valley. Today there are at least 1000 and probably 120o or more. a growth of 1000 per cent or more in seven years In many sec tions of that valley the water prob lem has been solved by the iHtrodue- ton of pumping plants and cheaper fuel making possibly auxiliary irriga- iion with Intensive farming methods. And this is proving successful. Prob ably no section Of the state is settling more rapidly than is this valley.
 In the San Pedro valley. at the low CT end. there have been about 200 fam flies to locate within a year. Here artesian water is being developed 1T some sections but generally the over s,ow from the river. the flow iron inc mountains and dry farming meth ods are being relied upon This val lev is growing almost as rapidly as ii the sulphur Spring And up in th' northeasterly corner of the court Is the San Simon valley. Within tW' years Bowie has grown from half dozen buildings to at least ten time that number and in all direction about the town homesteaders are se' fling houses are going up and the sol is being plowed and tiled. But it Sa. Simon that shows the most stril ing Drogress in that valley. There ha been developed the largest artesia area yet found in Arizona. Thir' wells were put down beforc the re' arteslan belt Was found but within tn last 90 days fourteen wells have bee nut down that have flows of pure no alkaline water varying from 25o 500 eallons. Within year this lit towp has had is new buildings
 elading s750o school and fiji church edihce while at least thr' times that many ranch homes ha' been built nearby in the same peric