Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-06

- ing and writing rooms together with other attractions which will give the men of the district some place else other than the streets an1 business places to spend their leisure hours. This building is about ready to throw open. Increased school buildings and equipment, inclusive of playgrOunds and a number of other town improve ments will be reached just as fast as they can be got to. In the Warren dis trict more than 200 houses have been built at Warren during the year and several hundred more are to follow as quickly as their erection can be mada These houses are owned by their oc- cupants, who have received such ad- vances of money as they have needed in order to attain their own homes through a building and loan organ ization operated without profit except to its shareholders, who are the Dor rowing home builders. Other districts in the state are moving along these same lines and fast building up con- munity of home owners and well housed employees who will be able to point to their situation as the best prevailing in any industrial state in the Union.
 Living Costs Are Held Down
 The cash basis. abolishment of de- ductions from pay rolls for stores, close supervision urged and gained over store prices and the making of reductions from former prices where cash and carry systems have supplant- ed the former credit soliciting and free delivery systems have been at tended by much in general benefit in the various mining districts. Employees find that they have much more left in cash from the pay check at the end of the month than they formerly had and are realizing through the enforced greater individual attention to their expenditures that a substantial part of their former discontent with the cost of living was due not so much to the cost as to the rate of living they were permitting themselves and their fam flies. The merchants have less volume of trade but are better satisfied be- cause they get pay for all they sell in- stead of part and have more in bank.
 What the Copper Mines Are Doing
 The copper mines of Arizona are fur nishing something in excess of 25,000,- 900 pounds of copper the month over and above the total shipments made to the allies in Europe in recent months. The balance of the Arizona copper goes to American concerns making up munitions and the variety of supplies for armies and navies re- quiring copper These concerns dur ing the last six months have taken over a great deal of the manufacture that the allies were previously con ducting at home. Finished products, in other words, are being made on this side of the water and shipped across to the allies and to our own men in stead of the raw material. Of the lat ter there is still going abroad each month for strictly war usages some thing over 50,000,000 pounds. For more than year every pound of American copper has been going into war usages: domestic consumers wanting copper for other purposes have been unable to get it from the producers distributing board, operating under federal direction. Some recent as- sertion that less than per cent of the American copper had been going to non-essentials IS not founded upon fact. except that in the making of in- struments for surgeons, hospitals and some of the federal departments there has been a diversion of a very little copper to industries that while classed as nOn-essentiai are nevertheless in some department employed on work that is essential to keeping things up at home so that efficiency can be maintained in providing for those abroad.
 Incentive for Top Endeavor
 It is the knowledge that all of their output is going into use to win the war at the earliest possible moment, and to prevent any possible shortage of the metal and its products at a vital moment that might develop, that keeps the Arizona operative and operator going at top speed and always striv- ing for a little more; the same know ledge explains the deep antipathy of both toward interference with the ways of work which they know better than can any outsider will get the biggest results. It is why they look with alarm upon the taking away of labor, and the imposition upon small producers of costs of supplies, trans portation and labor which make it | impossible for them to produce with profit and which in the case of devel. Oping properties makes it impossible for them to go ahead with the estab- | lishment of new resources in ore with which to keep the states production at maximum when the present output | of present producers begins to wane as the available supplies are exhaust
 ed and they are obliged to turn from all mining to seasons of near all devel Opment. This does not apply to all small producers or to all de
 veloping concerns. Some of both are
 sufficiently financed and imbued with ! the aid the war spirit to carry or