Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-06
GREAT BUSINESS FOR LENGTH OF WAR SAYS
 NEW YORK VISITOR
J. E. Thompson, Former Resi- dent of Bisbee, Here on Visit and Tells of Future Possibilities. Guest At Luncheon.

That general business conditions, throughout the United States, should be excellent during the great war and that expert opinion differed on the same question, granting a declaration of peace between the beihgerent na- tions, is the opinion of J. B. Thomp- sor, of New York. MT. Thompson ar rived in Bisbee Friday night from Douglas, with Mrs. Thompson and son and will remain here several days, seeing old friends and getting better acquainted with copper producing con ditions in this region of the South west
 MT. Thompson is the head of the banking and brokerage house of Thompson, Sohnnard and Company oI New York, one of the leading houses on the New York stock exchange. This is the visitors first trip to Bisbee since he left, about eleven years ago.
 Thirteen years ago J. E. Thompson arrived in Bisbee from Clifton where he had been located for about two years. Once in this city he conceived the idea of a real estate promotion, firmly believing that Bisbee would grow. Accordingly, as he himself states, it with but little enthusiasm, he promoted the Johnson Addition.
 As ans exponent in advertising the Warren District has never seen Mir. Tkompson's peer. He believed in dis playing his wares; in telling the peo- pie about his proposition and, to that end, his catch word, J. E. T., soon be- came a household word in this region of the state. In the newspapers on rocks, on poles on billboards aud in fact on every available vacant spot, his initials were painted.
 The result was, of course, success. Thompson made money in Bisbee and went to New York. He became asso- ciated in the brokerage business with his brother and is now at the head of the business and one of the leading business men on Wall Street He is heavily interested in many Arizona copper properties and deals exten- sively in those securities for his clients in the east.
 MT Thompson has been keen stu dent of affairs in Arizona. He has never forgotten the state and its as. sociations. Its politics, it's industrial progress and it's latent resources have given him much cause for study.
 'I am mighty. glad" said Mir. Thompson yesterday, That the people of the state of Arizona have decided to have portion of sanity in their government of the state.
 Money has no sentiment, whatever. Accordingly, conditions must be pro pitious in order to induce capital to enter the state Arizona has enjoyed 8 wonderful era of prosperity during the last two years-every copper pre- ducing region has enjoyed the same prosperity. The most adverse condl- tions would not have retarded pros perity which we have witnessed here of late.
 What Arizona needs, however, is railroad capital and other money with which to develop other resources than mining. When capital investigates Arizona, with that end in view, it has run up against adverse political con- ditions and nothing has been done, as "a consequence. I am sincerely hopins that present conditions will continue and that Arizona may see much pro gress in the next few years"
 Thompson Rendered Luncheon
 Yesterday MT. Thompson was given a luncheon by Jesse Yoakum, one On his oldest friends in the statae of Ari- zona, at the Copper Queen hotel. Nine teen men sat down to the table.
 They were: J. E. Thompson. w. H. Brophy, C. A. Mcdonald, Barney Nor ton, NJ. J. Cunningham, Tom Hughes, Charles Allen, Jim Henderson, w. Delbridge, Jack hcGregor, F. E. Coles, Gus Heigler, Lem Overlook, Dick Bretherton, J. J. Bowen, Tom Me Grath, Waffle Schwartz, L. D. Clark and fha hoet