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| Our room - reminds you of a brothel. |
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| It was clean and right in the center of action. |
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| Copper Queen Hotel |
Monday night was spent in the Copper Queen Hotel. In 1902 - it was the pride of the 20,000 people of Bisbee AZ. It was a busy boom town - along the Railway from St Louis to San Francisco.
There are many things similar between Tamaqua and Bisbee. Coal mining and copper mining have many similarities. Minerals were extracted first by deep mining with picks and shovels - they later moved to modern equipment - and finally decided just to rip off the top of the mountain and strip the product out. In Bisbee it left a giant pit - and pilings of waste all over. Many men in both copper mines and coal mines died from miner's asthma
Bisbee does have an excellent climate around which to build a tourist industry. In the winter it is warm - in the summer it is cooler than the deserts around it.
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| Lots of steps all around Bisbee |
COPPER QUEEN MINE
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| We went 1500 feet into the mine |
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| This was the main entrance |
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| The mine tour was $13 and one hour |
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| 8 billion pounds of copper came out of here |
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| The timekeeper kept mining records |
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| The Board Room in the Big House |
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| They used lots of Atlas Dynamite |
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| Narrow gauge railroad |
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| Sonny - our guide worked here 40 years. He is 82. |
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| Dynamiting the face - dynamite - fuses - blasting caps - sparklers |
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| A mine toilet car |
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| I gave it a try |
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| The mine library |
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| The clocks like at PVMS |
FORT HUACHUCA AND BUFFALO SOLDIERS
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| There are 3 museums on base. |
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| Buffalo soldiers trained here |
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| Today - they test drones and military secret sending |
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| Drones fly by remote control through satellites |
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| The old mule soldier barracks are still used |
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| Drones |
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| They look like model planes we flew in the 1950s |
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| This one flew 50 successful missions |
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