QuickSiteImages/Gold_Miner_op_600x600.jpg' alt='Arizona Gold Miners Game' title='Arizona Gold Miners Game' />Bisbee, Arizona Wikipedia. Bisbee, Arizona. City. Main Street, Bisbee. Motto An American OriginalLocation of Bisbee in Cochise County, Arizona. Location in the United States. Coordinates 3. 12. N1. 095. 35. 2W 3. Arizona Gold Miners Game' title='Arizona Gold Miners Game' />N 1. W 3. Coordinates 3. Pascal Graph Unit. N1. 095. 35. 2W 3. N 1. 09. 8. 97. 78W 3. Country. United States. State. Arizona. County. Cochise. Incorporated. January 9, 1. 90. Francisco bank. The gold was worth 125,000. The bandits made good their escape and holed up in a log cabin at a place later called Viet Spring. I think this game is going to be a critical game for this season. CU is playing a lower middle to bottom dwelling PAC 12 Arizona team at home. Sick of being swung through the air at high speeds and getting smashed against rushing white orbs, Ian Happs bat finally got a bit of revenge tonight, tripping up. Government  Mayor. Free Employee Hourly Cost Calculator. David Smith. Area1  Total. Land. 5. 1. 6 sq mi 1. Water. 0. 0. 0 sq mi 0. Elevation. 5,5. 38 ft 1,6. Population 2. 01. Total. 5,5. 75  Estimate 2. Density. 1,0. 11. Time zone. MST no daylight saving time UTC 7ZIP code. Area code. 52. 0FIPS code. Website. City of Bisbee. Bisbee is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, 9. Tucson. According to the 2. The city is the county seat of Cochise County. HistoryeditBisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silvermining town in 1. Judge De. Witt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine. In 1. 92. 9, the county seat was moved from Tombstone to Bisbee, where it remains. Mining industryedit. Classic azurite mineral specimen from the Bisbee mines, collected circa 1. Mining in the Mule Mountains proved quite successful in the early 2. Bisbee soared. Incorporated in 1. Warren, Lowell, and San Jose, some of which had been founded on their own ultimately less successful mines. In 1. 91. 7, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the copper demand during World War I. A high quality turquoise promoted as Bisbee Blue was a by product of the copper mining. Many high quality mineral specimens have come from Bisbee area mines and are to be found in museum collections worldwide. Some of these minerals include cuprite, aragonite, wulfenite, malachite, azurite, and galena. Bisbee deportationeditMiners attempted to organize to gain better working conditions and wages. In 1. 91. 7, the Phelps Dodge Corporation, using private police, transported at gun point over 1,0. Hermanas, New Mexico, due to allegations that they were members of the Industrial Workers of the World IWW the company wanted to prevent unionization. Earlier that year, industry police conducted the Jerome Deportation, a similar event to expel striking miners. Mining decline and tourismeditContinued underground work enabled the town to survive changes in mining. Neighboring towns had mines that closed, with a resulting dramatic loss of population. But, by 1. 95. 0, the population of Bisbee had dropped to less than 6,0. In 1. 97. 5 the Phelps Dodge Corporation halted its Bisbee copper mining operations. Bisbee Mayor Chuck Eads, with cooperation of Phelps Dodge, implemented development of a mine tour and historic interpretation of a portion of the world famous Copper Queen Mine as part of an effort to create heritage tourism as another base for the economy. They worked to compensate for the economic loss due to the end of the mining industry in the area. Community volunteers cleared tons of fallen rock and re timbered the old workings. Eventually, this local effort came to the attention of the federal Economic Development Administration. It approved a large grant to the City of Bisbee to help the mine tour project and other improvements in downtown Bisbee these were designed to meet tourist business needs. The Queen Mine Tour was officially opened to visitors on February 1, 1. More than a million visitors have taken the underground mine tour train. Panorama of Bisbee in 1. Modern BisbeeeditFrom 1. Bisbee increased by nearly 1. The peak population was in 1. In the following decade, there was a decline in jobs and population, although not as severe as from 1. But, the economic volatility resulted in a crash in housing prices. Coupled with an attractive climate and picturesque scenery, Bisbee became a destination in the 1. Artist Stephen Hutchison and his wife Marcia purchased the Copper Queen Hotel, the towns anchor business and architectural gem, from the Phelps Dodge mining company in 1. The company had tried to find a local buyer, offering the deed to any local resident for the sum of 1, but there were no takers. The property needed renovation for continued use. Old Bisbee High School building. Hutchison purchased and renovated the hotel, as well as other buildings in the downtown area. One held the early 2. Brewery and Stock Exchange. Hutchison began to market Bisbee as a destination of the authentic, old Southwest. His work attracted the developer Ed Smart. Among the many guests at the hotel have been celebrities from nearby California. Actor John Wayne was a frequent visitor to Bisbee and the Copper Queen. He befriended Hutchison and eventually partnered with Smart in his real estate ventures. This period of Bisbees history is well documented in contemporary articles in The New Yorker and in an article by Cynthia Buchanan in The Cornell Review. It was at this time that Bisbee became a haven for artists and hippies fleeing the larger cities of Arizona and California. Later it attracted people priced out by gentrification of places such as Aspen, Colorado. In the 1. 99. 0s, additional people have been attracted to Bisbee, leading it to develop such amenities as coffee shops and live theatre. Many of the old houses have been renovated, and property values in Bisbee now greatly exceed those of other southeastern Arizona cities. Today, the historic city of Bisbee is known as Old Bisbee and is home to a thriving downtown cultural scene. This area is noted for its architecture, including Victorian style houses and an elegant Art Deco county courthouse. Because its plan was laid out to a pedestrian scale before the automobile, Old Bisbee is compact and walkable. The towns hilly terrain is exemplified by the old four story high school each floor has a ground level entrance. Panorama of Bisbee in 2. In the MayJune 2. Modern Maturity, the AARP highlighted what they called the most alive places to retire in the U. S. Bisbee was a runner up as one of the quirkiest towns in America. SuburbseditArt Deco doors on the Cochise County Courthouse. The city of Bisbee now includes the satellite communities of Warren, Lowell, and San Jose. The Lowell and Warren townsites were consolidated into Bisbee proper during the early part of the twentieth century. There are also smaller neighborhoods interspersed between these larger boroughs, including Galena, Bakerville, Tintown, South Bisbee, Briggs, and Saginaw. Warren was Arizonas first planned community. It was designed as a bedroom community for the more affluent citizens of the mining district. Warren has a fine collection of Arts and Crafts style bungalow houses. Many have been recognized as historic places, and the city has an annual home tour during which a varying selection are offered for tours. Since the end of mining in the 1. Warren has seen a steady decline in its standard of living. The residential district still houses a significant portion of the population, and includes City Hall, Greenway Elementary School, Bisbee High School, and the historic Warren Ballpark. Lowell was at one time a sizable mining town located just to the southeast of Old Bisbee. The majority of the original townsite was consumed by the excavation of the Lavender Pit mine during the 1. All that is left today is a small portion of Erie Street, along with Evergreen Cemetery, Saginaw subdivision and Lowell Middle School. Psp Games 100 Mb.