Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

is said to be interested with Phillips in the proposed banking enterprise.
 Allen c. Burris, for many years prominently identified with the most successful mining enterprises of the Cripple Creek District recently pur- chased with eastern associates 70 acres comprising the choicest section of the estate of the Pioneer Consoli- dated Mines company. The Burris purchase includes mine and mill ma chinery having a value of more than $15O,OOO. The property adjoins that of the Arizona-Tom Reed company and carries the same rich vein sys- tenn. Burris pronounces this district Co be the best he has seen since Grip pie Creek was struck
 Kenneth Donnellan the first broker in Gildfeld to have a private wire con meeting with the San Francisco and New York stock exchanges, has been here for the past three weeks, and is here to stay. Donnellan has with San Francisco people taken over the Gaddis & Perry holdings in the north end of the camp. He says this will be the best known and talked of camp in the country within the next sixty days.
 V. S. ROwley, one of the pioneers who put Searchlight, Nevada on the may, has undertaken to put the town site of old Trails on the may, also The townsite in question occupies a broad fiat in the vicinity of the Bound ary Cone that massive uplift of surf | ferrous rock over whose couical top ! passes the 35th parallel The distance from Oatman to old Trails is about mile and is covered in a few min | utes by auto stage. Lots on the Old ! Trails townsite are meeting with a ready sale, as they likewise are on | the Mazona cOmpany's ground, near by. Old Trails is located on the Ma tional Old Trails Highway In fact. the main street of Old Trails is a part of the latter. In an earlier day this | was the emigrant trail giving west i ward to the Golden Gate from Santa | Fe, New Mexico
 Padre Garces, Franciscan monk and | religious zealot blazed the Trail of l the Cross over what are now the sites i of Oatman and of Kingman, in the latter part of the 18th century on his
 way to the Rio Jabesus, making camp on the journey at a perennial spring 1 which he named "Agua de Pacifco." | This spring now affords water to the l Gold Reed Mining company's mill, and | the road that yet connects it with Oatman and with Kingman winds | backward along the vista of the years
 10 the days of the Franciscan fathers
 and chimiug mission bells; albeit the
 sandaled footprints of the good padre
 who built 1t were long since obliter.
 ated by the dust of past century.
 Elbow room chance to stretch
 your arms without poking your fist
 in fellow lodger's eye or get out of bed without stepping on a fellow | lodger's face-is an urgent need here. | For at present propinquity is some times a synonym of trouble.
 During the last four months the population of the camp has increased
 from about 400 to approximately 2OOO
 The influx is on the increase and thus far no adequate provision has been
 made to hous and feed the new com
 CTS. Men by the dozens are sleeping
 fin their blankets in the open or in
 the shelter of partially erected build ings The lodging houses are crowd
 ed to overhowing and men are sleep
 ing on the floor between the cots.
 Standing room only" 9nd Watch Your Bonnie and Your Beanje," typi
 fly the conditions in the overcrowded
 restaurants. Automobiles overloaded
 with passengers come chug-chuggina
 into the camp at all hours of the day
 and night Auto trucks freighted with
 beds and provisions are constantly on the move Ten and 12.mule freight
 outfits, wagons loaded deep witf lumber and mine machinery, clog al the trails.
 The brokers of the camp are fol the most part ofhceless and are, there 1 fore, doing strictly "curbstone'