Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21

under the management Of M. J.
 Brophy. but each branch store has it's superintendent
 Douglas Store Opens. 1 When it was determined to vacate 1 the old smelting plant at Bisbee and |the Copper Queen and Calumet and Arizona companies erected new reduc- 1 ton plants side by side % miles from Ithe mines. new community was started and to meet the demands of |that growing community Copper Queen store was started at Douglas. l Its growth has been as remarkable as Ithat of the Bisbee store and in volume of business it vies with it. During the
 past year that growth and business
 has been increased from the fact that there have been quartered in Douglas between 4.OOO and 5000 troops, the l largest garrison on the Mexican bor- der
 Community Grows Rapidly. l Douglas proved to be rapidly
 growing community and the Douglas store rapidly outgrew its first guar. Iters. A splendid brick building al the ! corner of G Avenue and 9th Street was erected for it and from time to time lthis building was enlarged The latest addition was a 50-foot annex in which
 have been housed the dry goods and
 similar departments At the time this annex was planned the fact that Doug
 las was to be an important military
 garrison was unknown, but it was
 hardly more than completed before
 the influx came and its necessity was ] speedily demonstrated. The Douglas
 store is under the efficient manage |ment of II. B. Rice.
 With the settlement of the Sulphur | Spring and San Pedro Valleys with an . agricultural population and with the rapid growth of Bisbee and Douglas
 and their suburbs the two cities have
 become important shipping points to other sections of the state and thus a wholesale business has grown up in
 connection with the retail
 Company is incorporated.
 
 best interests Of all would be con served if the various stores in Bisbee ] Lowell, Warren, Naco, Douglas. Mo - renci and Dawson, N. M., were put under a single management and on ! January l. 1912 a transfer Of these ; stores was made 10 the Phelps Dodge f Mercantile Company. To the publ,
 t this meant that thereafter purchases
 of stock could be made in larger
 quantities by the chain of stores, that the stock in each store might be nor,
 complete and that each store would
 be in better position 10 meet the need. - and the demands bf the community To the company 1t meant merely {
 concentration and centralization o business.
 No Monopoly Sought.
 All of the stores that are included a in the Phelps Dodge Mercantile com 5 pany have ever maintained a poicl s of fairness toward the individual mer
 chant, of the community. As a resul 2. generally the most friendly relation ', exist between the Phelps Dodge Mer cantile stores and the individual mer |, Ichants of each community Many O o the merchants in such communitle and in nearby communities have fount - that in many instances they coul . make purchases of certain classes O ,t goods more ad7antageOusly from suc o stores than from eastern or coast shiI d Ipers. since large purchases and shiT d lments brought lower prices and lowe d freight rates than the smaller mel |, chant could ordinarily obtain Thu ,s the wholesale business of the Phelp
 Dodge Mercantile Company was mi
 terially increased, and mutual bus ,,. ness relations established with othe m wise rival houses,
 As the general policies observed b ,f an Of the stores of the Phelps DodR m Mercantile Company are indantical n, description Of the methods employe .. and service rendered in the pionee o Bisbee store will serve 10 descrit I, them all to a greater or less degree ,b Efficient Service Rendered. th In the Bisbee store there is fouu ss nothing that savers of the "gener re store of the country town or sms