Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-03

| gales Oasis says:
 From about 1894 to his retirement
 in 1907 the history of the tremendous development of Northern Sonora was
 practically the history of Bill Greene l-the celebrated cow-man-mine-promo
 ter of Cananea fame.
 Within an incredibly short time, from a hamlet of a few dozen people he made Cananea a town of some 20,- 900 people, and created one of the
 biggest copper mines in the world,
 representing a fixed investment of around twenty million dollars of out
 side capital, which has caused since
 an annual outporing of metal the
 equivalent of $5,000,000 to $10,000,000
 of brand new wealth-year in and
 year out. Incidentally MT. Greene be-
 came Col. w. c. Greene, an honored
 member of the romantic ''nouveaux
 rich"
 For 30 years Greene had been a
 well-known frontier character and
 mine-rancher of indifferent success. As an on locker he had witnessed per sonally many of the phenomenally
 successful promotion campaigns, such
 as Homestake, Butte and Tombstone.
 Frequently, when he thought he had learned the game, he acquired, a con- tract on some property and beseiged
 the strongholds of capital from San Francisco to New York Up to the
 Cananea episode, though he had es-
 tablished a reputation as "a dead game sport" he had met with indif-
 ferent or no fundamental success; and his loyal, old miner-rancher friends l
 somewhat skeptical of Bills ability as
 a financier.
 However, in the copper boom of
 some twenty years ago Greene ob-
 tained a contract from the Widow Pes
 .queira on the virgin mineral ground
 which now constitutes the holdings of
 the great Cananea mines and smell ters. With this contract in hand Greene
 once again persuaded his old-time To-
 cal friends to rustic funds to send him
 to San Francisco and New York lin
 order to interest capital to develop the property"
 . Greene's protracted trips and long absence with but little definite news 3 caused his pals to have many mis- givings, when suddenly he returned ! laconically announced to his friends l that he had raised the money" to l push his big operations at Cananea : and told his henchmen to organize the
 new camp and commence to make the 3 dirt fly. His. friends were amazed al 3 the magnitude of his proposition, and 5 not until he flashed several $5000C bills from wad of elephantice dimen . sions before the eyes of his two bos g om friends, Jim Kirk and "Old Pack, did they realize that Greene had "ar U rived with the goods"
 Such was the romantic beginning oi
 Cananea From that time Colonel n Greene was a hero and financier to his old-time friends. The inside facts of sudden elevation from a mediocre , miner-rancher and peripatetic promo ter to a full fledged financial mag V nate, have never been told and have Q ever remained a mystery along the i. border.
 e As Colonel Greene and all the par ]. ties immediately connected with tht
 New York end of the romantic Ions
 ago have been gathered to their fath CTS, it now seems appropriate for The [ Oasis to publish the story as told its $ editor by one whose position in the . marts of the mighty made him entire ly familiar with every phase of tho 5: early history of Cananea. Hereafter II follows the allaged entrails of the dea !. practically verbatim:
 = In Greene's various peregrination; . seeking capital he had often met, botl
 East and West, one Walter s. Logan ,I@l I.,r with elaborate offices in the Wal d Street district With his lawsbusines! , Logan had branched out successful! Q into real estate and mine promotion o The glamor of Mexico's mines an( c lands was just beginning to interes , Wall Street. At that very time Lo . gan was in a big Yaqui river land b1 deal with Don Pedro Chisem of Quay
 mas and Don Carlos Conant.
 Upon previous occasions Greene haC
 appealed to Logan for assistance il certain promotions, but. after submit
 ting his contracts. data and proposi U tion, Logan had smiled, courteously, a ? his crude preparations and microscop p ic funds, and had outlined roughly al y informal plan which, if coupled witl a concrete proposition on promising 1, ,, property, with a competent repor Il might interest him.
 . In due time Greene arrived in Nov ' York on his Cananea campaign. Afte Q meeting many typical rebuffs iron V metropolitan financiers he bethough !. himself of Logan. An appointmen |. was arranged and Greene submittet I, Cananea. The time was opportune I and the lawyer-promoter was interest w ed. However. he said: Before we g, 4 any further your report must be veri !, fled by my own enginer; if he con "a firms your data certain changes mus fl be made in the Widow Pesqueira con m tract, and, lastly, you must give me -e certain contingent share, and also ful is nish a few thousand dollars for full 10 page publicity in certain specific, r. list of a dozen or so big eastern Sun n day papers, and postage on one thou
 sand letters which I shall send iron
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