Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-08

years olu-
 great versatility and is already de-
 servedly popular with the people of
 this district. MT. A. valjean, the
 mining editor, is gentleman of much
 experience in his line. having been
 active in hs professor in various
 places throughout the west His ar
 ticles are well and carefully written
 as to facts and he is an authority on the copper and other mineral proper ' ties of this region. Mr. N. A. Patter- son is the business manager, the
 hardest worked man of the lot, while
 MT F. R. Reynolds is the cashier.
 His assistant. Miss Buckett, was born
 and educated in Ishpeming. Michigan.
 The Review Is to add important mod
 ern equipment to make its efforts still
 more effective.
 The county of Cochise, in which Bisbee Is located has an assessed val.
 uation of about ss7,500.0 The War.
 ren Mining District of which Bisbee
 Is practically the present whole. is on
 the rolls at about s6o,o0O,0o of which
 big total the. Copper Queen and Calu.
 met & Arizona companies and their
 subsidiary enterprises contribute
 about seven-eighths. The state asses
 sors, as is modern practice through. | nltr to boost mine valuations nightly.
 As Illustrating this the Copper , Queen Mining companys taxes amount to about 30 cents on every ton of orc
 hoisted. Talk of your Michigan ton. . mage tax! On a,four per cent ore out , put this means fveeighths of cent l per pound of copper, a very substan. } tial tax of a certainty. It goes to
 show how important these mines are in the affairs of the community. Bisbee has excellent water for po- } table and other purposes, lacking al.
 kali. and that's of greatest import. ance in this region where so much of 7 the water alkaline and hard alike on 3 the stomach, hands, and in the laun- |. dry. It comes from Naco. nine miles !. distant and close to Mexico. The s price compared with that in the Lake l. Superior country is high, but there |. are other things to compensate. Soft I coal here Is sl4 per ton as against
 our s4.O0, but wages are better here, ;. and it's fun to spend the money. Min. '' CTS working contract earn from $4.5O e to $500 per day Board and room will 1. cost about $35.00, but the excellent @ wages permits it. A good man can f save from s30 to S100 per month k here. Many squander their wages, as a Is true of some men of all mining s camps, but the money goes into cir V culation and someone gets it. The , earning power here is high.
 |. Bisbee has excellent schools, seven V graded and one high school and a q new high school now being built. d There's a paid fire department, wa a ter towers well supplied and the town q. is all protected in this respect.
 .s There are churches enough for tn, |. entire community a fine Y. NJ. c. A ,s building, one for the Y. W. c. A. also If There's a country club boosting al
 excellent 9-hole golf course, rifl m range. a multiplicity of secret socie lv ties, street railway connecting witt .v Lowell, Cochise and Warren, electri 10 lights, gas, sewerage, and highway a that are being steadily improved v We had the pleasure of meeting tn :, state highway engineer of Arizona ,' Mr. Lamar Cobb. and Mir. w. A " Crossland, United States highway CT ~ gineer of the office of public roads n Two important jobs are now unde ut way in Cochise county, one on tn is Tombstone canyon highway. the oti 'e CT on the road between Bisbee an ce Douglas. Convict labor Is used, an ty is satisfactory On the Bisbee-Doul so las road 35 trusty men are workin ld' without guard The road is a yer
 wide one. about l30 feet including th he ditches at the sides. The clag groun sw is being plowed and scraped to tll fir, center of the line where 1t will [ Ie crowned 10 shey water and cove of with slar from the smeltsrs at Dou