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DOUGLAS, a city of Cochise county, Arizona, U.S.A., 25m. S.E. of Bisbee, on the Mexican border line. It is on Federal high way 8o and the Southern Pacific railway. The population was in 192o (29% foreign-born white), and it was 9,828 in 193o by the Federal census. Cattle-raising and copper-smelting are the main occupations of this part of Arizona, and the Sonora mining region of Mexico lies directly south. The city has immense copper smelters and a lead smelter, to which car loads of ore are brought daily from the mines at Bisbee and other points in Ariz ona and in Mexico. There is a U.S. Army post (Camp Harry J. Jones) at Douglas. The Coronado national forest, within which is the Chiricahua national monument, is 55m. north. Douglas was settled about 1904 and incorporated as a city in 1905.

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