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I remember those days in Arizona. Back in 1992 and '93 I had a break in service and lived in Bisbee Arizona. I'm actually the very first Bisbee to live in Bisbee. My great, great grandfather, Judge Dewitt Bisbee, a San Francisco lawyer and judge gave the Phelps Dodge/ US Army coalition $100,000 bucks to help get the smelter up and running when the army scouts found a copper tailing on the side of a ridge in 1882. He was one of several investors. By 1888 they had a nice copper mine going and a boom town had sprung up around it. There was so much copper in there they were able to repay all investments with interest and called upon everyone to come to the location and see the place, be paid off, and then to decide what to call the joint. Judge Bisbee died on the way and the rest decided to call it Bisbee, in the Arizona Territory. It became the wildest town between St Louis and San Fran. I owned an Ice Cream Parlor there. Mrs. Bisbee's Crystal Palace Ice Cream Emporium. Made a ton of money and sold it for a profit when we got pregnant. The mine is/was called The Copper Queen. Ran from 1882 to 1979 nonstop. I still have a few chunks of Azurite with Malachite inclusions, and some Bisbee turquois. It had a NYSE exchange board up until 1929. It still hangs on a wall in the Stock Exchange bar and grill. The numbers etc are still on it in chalk from '29.
I remember those days in Arizona. Back in 1992 and '93 I had a break in service and lived in Bisbee Arizona. I'm actually the very first Bisbee to live in Bisbee. My great, great grandfather, Judge Dewitt Bisbee, a San Francisco lawyer and judge gave the Phelps Dodge/ US Army coalition $100,000 bucks to help get the smelter up and running when the army scouts found a copper tailing on the side of a ridge in 1882. He was one of several investors. By 1888 they had a nice copper mine going and a boom town had sprung up around it. There was so much copper in there they were able to repay all investments with interest and called upon everyone to come to the location and see the place, be paid off, and then to decide what to call the joint. Judge Bisbee died on the way and the rest decided to call it Bisbee, in the Arizona Territory. It became the wildest town between St Louis and San Fran. I owned an Ice Cream Parlor there. Mrs. Bisbee's Crystal Palace Ice Cream Emporium. Made a ton of money and sold it for a profit when we got pregnant. The mine is/was called The Copper Queen. Ran from 1882 to 1979 nonstop. I still have a few chunks of Azurite with Malachite inclusions, and some Bisbee turquois. It had a NYSE exchange board up until 1929. It still hangs on a wall in the Stock Exchange bar and grill. The numbers etc are still on it in chalk from '29.
