La Junta tribune., 1913-07-19
EVERYTHING HIGH IN ARIZONA.
Temperature, Aitituoe. Coal and Ice.
Are Way Up in eisbee and d.
rectory Advertising VIII Be

Issue compiling city directory OF
that metropolis. myself and family
came up here last Tuesday Bisbee
is seven or eight miles from the
boundary line and is about mile
high Also everything else is high,
that is everything that you have
To buy. Believe me. directory ad-
vertising Is going to be high in
this town also. It's the only way |
can get even. Douglas was begin.
ming to warm up before we left. In
fact the temperature was beginning
/ To remind me of that dear old La
Junta. But Bisbee is about fifteen
. hundred feet higher than Douglns and
the climate is fine. Bisbce is a
copper camp and nothing else. Even
a casual stranger can see that a
city was not bull, here on account
is built on hills and in gulches. when
you start to build house the first
thing you do is dig out level place
on the side of the hill You might
think this is joke. but It's on
the level-this story | am telling you
not the town. It's going to be
very easy job. to get out a directory
here II you don't care what you
say There are a few streets. but
the only way to locate at least
seycn,y.fivc per cent of the houses
is by hills For instance. lo7 Chi
huahua Hill The streets and hills
have very euphonious names. tlf
that word means what | think II
does that sentence is all rightD Here
they are Brewery Gulch. q. X.
Trail. Nnco Road. Tombstone Canyon.
Opera Drive. Main Street. Little
Broadway. Review Alley manned af'
ter the Bisbc~ Review Moon Avenue.
(Sosasblssd nm. ochcoa nm. Chi.
hnahua I'M. Clawson HIN. Quaiit~
I'M. Jirrrrville. Tintown. Bsk-rville'
Dubcrkor Canyon Tombstone Can
yon is the road to Tombstone. the
county seat of Cochiso county.
lived on brewery Gnlch for
couple of dRys after | arrived here.
but couldn't stand the name so
moved To Naco Road This II the
road that goes To Naco where my
friend 90 III General. Don Pedro
ojeda soiournod for a period
As | remarked before everything
l,"ro is high both In altitude aud
price MIX costs l2ia cents a
quart. coal 81 90 hundred pound
sack or 81 for quarter ton. or
.f-r those aristocrats who have
coal shed and can buy whole
ton ai once for siii0 ton. lc"
is ~ cents hundred. city water
was $500 for 1900 gallons but be
ginning tomorrow. tn" 10th. II VIII
cost only sl.o0 for i27 gallons.
/ Wages are toi.rably high here. tn"
miners getting s375 for eight hours
Last month there wcr" for'y'S"N"h
hundred men on the pay rolls OF
the three big companies Altogether
.,,,lov.d In nil lines ,hor. are
abou, 6 1000 men working aud tn"
population of the district must b"
at lcnAi Is. 900. The monthly payroll
is something over 100000. which
looks iik. Who'll. lot Of money Ia
u directory man.
I thought when I left Douglas that
q was getting away from IN. Ncsi'
can war. but I found out this II
lust far enough away from Mexico
No that correspondent does not
feel III. handicap Of the truth. Lots
of swell stories were spoiled because
the men who wrote them had some
it'll. regard for the facts IN the
case. but ON the other hand there
were some stories that listened flno
u,o people ut dis,anccl b.chus'
The correspondents who sent them
out knew nothing abon, what had
actually happened and cared great
deal less THE however. does moi
apply 10 the writings OF the yeraciou'
directory man who was never known
10 dcvinic from the path Of truth
unless he was sure that he could Ro'
away with II There were mum
ber of people IN Douglas who doubt
cd the census tina, ! say" the city
but NJ the school census, poa'offie'
receipts. aud other statistics o
the city corrobofated I, they ha'
to give IN thu, must be right. Al
n matter Of fact Douglas II CROWN,
faster than any town that ] eve
saw. or was In. excepting only
new mining camp.
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