Arizona republican., 1920-11-08
Predicts Better Cooper Market

FredictS Better Copper Market
 OUGLAS-Asserting that the cop per situation was serious to the point of crisis, c. H. Dowell of Bisbee, general manager of the Copper Queen branch of the Phelps-Dodge corpora ton, yesterday told the Douglas cham Der of commerce luncheon club that he regarded the present depression as only temporary. While he expressed hope for early improvement, MT. Dowell said frankly that immediate prospects were not bright.
 The Copper Queen managers hear CTS found interest in his statement that the corporation planned, when conditions become good again, to spend three or four million dollars on smelter betterments here. These inn provements will be made as the result of experiments which have been con- ducted here by Colonel H. H. Stout, superintendent, and which have cost about s135.000.
 Mir. Dowell reviewed the history of copper production and market from the beginning of the world war to the present. He told of extensive im- provements made. at the cost of mill Hons. at Bisbee and elsewhere by the Phelps Dodge corporation and said that while a considerable number of men had been laid off at Bisbee, fur | ~A-~A NA e~oNAS AGddtNlOll Ol MOThlUB IOICG was not contemplated. However operations must be curcailed as much 1 as possible-probably to less than 50 | per cent of normal. Mir Dowell said mill construction at Bisbee would con- tinue. as would operation of the smelter here.
 The speaker. who was introduced by Colonel Stout, chairman of the Luncheon club, commented upon en- couraging conditions in Mexico, from which. he declared. Douglas is bound | 10 benefit.-Dispatch.
 Return Recalls ThriIlinu Days | GSTAFF-Captured in a mas sacre which almost wiped out his tribe. carried off Into slavery. sold to an alien. educated among those whom he had been taught to regard as blood enc mics, and then to win high honors at the hands of his benefactors, is the ex- perience of Dr. Carlos Montezuma of Chicago. who visited the district yes terday after a lapse of many years The physician, who is a fulI-blood Pinal Apache Indian. accompanied by his wife. a charming matron, left this morning for Riverside, Cal, where ne will be the guest of friends for two weeks before returning to his practice in the Windy City.
 l. Dr. Montezumas lifo history reaos lke tnrlIIlng chapter rom a dime novel. Born at Weaver's rancn, a short distance from Superior, he was dragged about for the first four years of his life from one hiding place tc another, as his tribe carried on a con- tinuous warfare with American SOL diers. During that short space oi time he was alternately carried ana compelled to walk from the GranC Canyon to the lower reaches of So- nora. Mexico. Just as 1t appeared a. If his life were to be cast in more peaceful channels the most stirring episode of his life occurred. Arrange ments were made whereby the tribe was to enter into a truce with tn, United States government. While tn, braves of the tribe were in San Pedro meeting with army officers, a raidinl party of Pima Indians swooped dowI upon the unprotected camp. located near where Irons ranch now is, mas sacred most of the squaws and chil dren and carried off the rest to tn Salt River valley. A few days latel