BISBEE, a mining city of Cochise county, Arizona, United States, cn the Southern Pacific railway, 7m. from the Mexican bor der. The population in 1930 was 8,023 ; in that year, including the residential suburbs of Warren and Lowell, it was over 20,000 Fed eral census. The main street, which is a section of Federal highway 8o, runs along a canyon 5,3oof t. above sea-level, and the city has spread up the slopes and over the still higher adjacent plateaux. Three of the largest copper mines of the country are here. The mines of the Bisbee district employ 3,000-3,50D men, and ship thousands of pounds of ore daily to the smelters at Douglas and elsewhere. Their total recorded production through 1925 amounted to 3,315,157,000 lb. of copper, besides silver, gold, lead and zinc. A striking landmark is "The Pit," a hole several hun dred feet deep and covering i8ac., which has been excavated out of the solid copper ore of Sacramento Hill.