"In 1877 while in pursuit of Apache Indians three army scouts camped in Mule Pass. One was John Dunn, who at that time found samples of rich ore. Since his duties would not permit him to work on any claims, Dunn grubstaked a man named George Warren, sending him into Mule Gulch. Waren seems to have been a first-class alcoholic as well as a pick-and-shovel man. To these two men belonged the Copper Queen Mine, so named because of the fame of the SIlver King Mine in Pinal County, whic it was hoped the Copper Queen would rival.
In 1880 a small eastern firm known as Phelps Dodge and Company sent Dr. James Douglas (df. Douglas) to purchase copper prospects in Arizona. He bought property close to the Copper Queen. The richest ore lay where the Copper Queen and Phelps Dodge properties joined. Rather than pursue litigation over the ores, the two companies merged as the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company.
Among the men who promoted the Copper Queen were Ben and Lewis Williams. A shareholder in the company was Judge DeWitt Bisbee, who was also the father-in-law of one of the brothers. The Williams brothers and Judge Bisbee became interested in the property when Edward Reilly, who had an option on the Copper Queen, went to San Francisco where he enlisted the aid of John Ballard and William Martin to supply funds to purchase the mine. Bisbee, Martin and Company undertook to develop the Copper Queen. Judge Bisbee never visited the town which bore his name. In 1929 Bisbee became the seat of Cochise County."
Post Office est. Sept. 7, 1880. Incorporated January 9, 1902
Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona
Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1960.
P. 30
City Profile-Arizona Department of Commerce
http://www.commerce.state.az.us/pdf/commasst/comm/bisbee.pdf
Local Government Website
http://www.amdest.com/az/Bisbee/BisbeeCC.html
Bisbee Chamber of Commerce
http://www.bisbeearizona.com/
The Arizonan
http://www.arizonan.com/Bisbee/
Bisbee Deportations
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/deportation.html
Bisbee Daily Review (Sierra Vista Herald)
http://www.svherald.com/
Bisbee Observer
http://www.bisbeeobserver.com/
Bisbee ore. (continued by Bisbee Evening Ore)
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 1, 1914)-v. 14, no. 25 (Aug. 31, 1927).
AN2.A6 B62x Folio
Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
5 Copper Queen Plaza, Bisbee, AZ 85603
(520)432-7071
10:00 am - 4:00 pm daily
http://www.amdest.com/az/Bisbee/bmining.html
Muheim, Heritage House
P.O. Box 14 Bisbee, AZ 85603
(520)432-7071
Thursday - Monday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm or by appointment
http://www.amdest.com/az/Bisbee/muheim.html
Copper Queen Library
P.O. Box 1857 6 Main Street, Bisbee, AZ 85603
Phone : 520-432-4232
http://cochise.lib.az.us/bisbee/bisbee.htm
The Greenway House
401 Cole Ave. Bisbee, AZ
(520)432-7170 or (800)253-3325
http://www.amdest.com/az/Bisbee/greenway.html
Books/Manuscripts found in the ASU Library Catalog
Bisbee, Arizona, yesterday & today : a comparative view of the queen
of the copper camps / written by Neil Bush ; photographed by Boyd Nicholl
; designed by Ruth Bush.
F819.B6
B87x 1992
Bisbee vignettes : a collection of photographs and stories of Old Bisbee
from the pages of the Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee's colorful newspaper
still published every week / written by William C. Epler, editor and publisher
; editing and checking of historical facts by Mrs. Alice Metz.
F819
.B6 E64x
Bisbee Ore--Local Newspaper
AN2.A6
B62x Folio
Bisbee with the big B/ by Frank L. Wentworth.
F819
.B6 W4x
Tales from Bisbee's past / by Gary Dillard.
F819.B6
D55x 1997
The story of mining in Bisbee / George F. Leaming ; illustrated
by Freeman G. Leaming.
F819.B6
L43x 1998
Bisbee's fabulous Queen : as a working copper mine and as a tour / by
Gary Dillard.
F819.B6
D55x 1998
Additional
Sources for Bisbee City History
Items found in the Arizona and Southwest Index
Information on Bisbee Arizona
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