Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-15
TELEPHONE MAGAZINE
DEVOTES SPACE FOR
THE WARREN DISTRICT
Mountain States Telephone Com
pany Magazine, The Monitor,
Gives District Excellent Publ
city in Its August Number.

That the city Of Bisbee and the War
rem District is receiving its share of
attention from the corporations that
have interests locally is hown by the
current number of the Mountain
States Monitor
This magazine is the official organ
CT the company and has a circulation
which approximates 5000 copies. It
goes into every state of the Rocky
Mountain region and into a part Of
Texas.
The article on the District is com
prehensiye, in its detail, and is with
out doubt, a decided boost for Bisbee
throughout the Mountain States field.
The article follows:
The second largest exchange in the
Tucson District, with its $50 stations.
Is that of Bisbee, located in the cen
ter Of what is known as the Warren
Copper District of Arizona and con.
coded by all authorities to be in the
heart Of the richest copper deposits
Of the world
Bisbee and Copper, So closely are
the two words associated that they are
to many minds almost synonymous.
The early history of Bisbee is the his
tory of western mining camps general
ly. In the early SOS some prospec-
tors came up into Mule Gulch Noun
tains, found outcroppings of copper
located, built a few shacks and began
the development of the mines. They
called their little settlement Mule
Gulch, and this was the beginning OF
Bisbee. From this start has grown
a modern, ubto-date, thriving, busting
progressive city, business houses and
handsome homes, churches, Libraries
and other public buildings, city
with paved and welllighted streets,
with modern comforts and convent
ences.
The Warren District is to all in
tents and purposes one community or
one city, except that Bisbee is the only
incorporated part All the rest is con
nected with Bisbee by electric railway.
with half-hour service, and not more
than twenty-five minutes ride from
the city. Here there has been gath.
cred a population of about twenty-five
thousand, while in the city of Bisbee
itself there are about sixteen thou
sand. OF these there are employed in
and about the mines of the district.
not including engineers and men in
the offices, of the three producing
companies, Copper Queen, Calumet &
Arizona and Shattuck, about 1000
men, the basis of the prosperity of the
great Warren mining district. The
further employees of the three compan-
les will amount to about four hundred
more. Neither of the companies EN-
ploy any Mexican labor under ground
there are some Slavonians employed
by the Calumet & Arizona Company
but more than three fourths of the en-
ployes Of the mines are Americans or
of English-speaking nationalities.
The miners employed in the Warren
mining district take from the earth
daily for shipment to the smelters al
Douglas upwards Of 1000 tons of ore
and Stag, and the daily train thai
runs down the grade to Douglas is the
heaviest train in the world
Bisbee is unique in its location It's
business streets are in the canyon, bu'
It's residential districts an extend w
the three OF four hillsides which sur
round IL. In other cities one gives
his address by street and number.
but in Bisbee the names Of hills take
the place of the names of STREETS. AS
a matter of fact there is but one street
in Bisbee in the strictest sense of The
word, since the means of access TO
the houses of residents which cover
the hillsides are but narrow trails
The town of Lowell, which rubs ell
bows with Bisbee on the south, i8
similarly built, but to less extent, ana
Warren which lies still further south.
is laid out like other cities and towns.