Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-15


famous, but in the Warren District it
attains only to the appellation of a
great little mine" though it is, in
reality the third Of that trinity which
has combined to raise Bisbee to it's
place at the head Of the worlds cop
reproducing centers.
Prior to the breaking out of hos
tilities abroad last August, in conse-
Quence of which the great copper mar.
kets of Europe were entirely cut of.
making fifty per cent curtailment in
copper production everywhere neces-
sary, Shattuck had produced millions
upon millions of pounds of copper
even in its short life and had return
ed to it's owners millions of dollars in
dividends. During the greater part of
the last eight months Shattuck sus.
nded mining operations temporarily
and devoted its attention to develop
ment work. until such a time as tho
copper outlook became brighter.
Now since market developments Of
the past three OF four months have
realized this condition. Shattuck has
resumed operations on a larger scale
than ever before in IFS history, and il
is certain that the future will find this
property a heavy and constant pro
Queer.
Our telephone plant in Bisbee and
the Warren District was purchased in
1910 from the Bisbee Improvement
| Company, a subsidiary of the Phelps
Dodge interests, and became a district
headquarters in what was then the
territory of the Tr-State Telephone
& Telegraph Company With our pur-
chase of the Arizona Telephone &
Telegraph Company properties in Tue
son and other parts of the state in
1912, changes were made which elm
mated Bisbee as a district headquar-
tiers and placed it as an exchange in
the district of the more centrally To-
Gated and accessible headquarters at
Tucson
In charge of company affairs i'm Bis
bee is MT Hugh Gunnison, recruit
from the department of public rela-
tons. MI Gunnison may be looked
upon as a comparatively recent addi-
| ton TO our big telephone family. but
| his boundless enthusiasm, geniality.
tact and ability have won for him a
| host of friends, and his continued and
ever-increasing company success is as
sured.
crystal Cave, 5sbee, Arizona.
( Man has brought many of Natures
! beauties within easy view of all. yet
others stnl remain difficult Of access
on various parts Of the earth's surface,
well worthy of arduous journeys and
| perils when they are at last found by
| admiring eyes. Yet she has not placed
am of her wonders on the surface of
the earth but has carefully hidden
some Of them far away below the
/ ground there only to be discovered
, by accident or by the industry of man.
4 Those meath the surface are often no
/ les beautiful no less TO be admired,
than those above, and when man finds
them he wakens TO thought and 20
wonder Such a find was recently
made near Bisbee, Arizona
Caves that are marvels of beauty
and wOnderment are entered from the
: earth's surface in many places. and
are visited and admired by their hun
dreds annually. as the Mammoth Ken
lucky Cave, but that there may be
many caves. far beneath the earth's
surface and with no entrance to them.
imam seldom pauses to think. This
was the fact brought home when the
Shattuck Arizona Mining Company. i'm
the course of It's development work
broke into the largest and most beau
tiful cave that has ever been discov-
cred. In the past few years il has
been visited by thousands, who have
gone down i'm the mine cage spent
hours sightseeing and returned with
enthusiastic tales of the beauties that
they have witnessed, yet with pauc-
.ity of words to describe those beauties.
declaring that words are Inadequate
for this purpose How then, shall
one write of the beauties and wonders
of the Shattuck Cave2
+ While pushing d drift on the 300.
lt1N ithtl OH tine 0hdilNtk Nine men
broke into cave, something not an.
common in the Warren District. but
this time the cave has proven to be
the greatest. the most remarkable, yet
TO be encountered. The cave which
mad previously been discovered in the
Copper Queen Mine near by was long
a wonder, and has been reproduced
in the New York Museum but the
original was closed up years ago. Re
'markable as was that cave. it cannot
be compared with the Shattuck Cave
which is open to visitors and will con.
tinue so until such time as safety de
mands that it shall be filled up with
r earth from other workings of the mine
Meanwhile it will be the wonder-sight
O. lOf southern Arizona
. A visit to the Shattuck Cave neces
states trip 10 the mine, a trip un
D. foreground which many sightseers
q have taken. Thus Is added nov
5 city presented. Dressed in oil clothes
} and wearing heavy shoes, the visitor
makes the trip up the hill to the shaft
b house, and there is furnished with
/ nrafrIaua