Mohave County miner., 1883-02-18


 ing back again to try and sell some more at the same price, viz. $200 each.
 We wonder if these people know what they are buying with their money. We wonder if they know that that the great town of Kingman contains at present one lumber house just finished and four adobe walls as the commencement of another and a few railroad contractors tents The owners of the lot on which the four adobe walls stand put them up last fall and 1t looks very much as though they had not sufficient conf dence in the future of the town to finish the building. The Sampling works of Chamberlain 6 Go, are located on the edge of the so-called town, but the machinery, which can be readily moved, is not protected by any build ing and is exposed to the weather, and the owners will not be likely to erect any expensive buildings until they know something more about the future of the place than they do at the present.
 But let us consider a little, and see if we can, what there is to support town in and around Kingman. The nearest mines are twelve miles away, and the place certainly could not de- pend on the miners for support; then there IS not water enough there to S supply population of one hundred souls, if they ever have that many to supply, which we very much doubt; even now water for present use has to be hauled some two miles, and that Is obtained from a surface depo sit and is liable to give out at any time, and unless large supply is ob tained from some other source, there will never be any quartz mills or re- duction works built or any manufac turing enterprises of any kind estab lished there. The town, If ever there be one, will have to depend on the railroad for It's support and on the railroad alone, and we have yet to hear of town dependent solely on a railroad that ever amounted to much. If this speculation is carried through the town of Kingman can only be- come a second Mariccpa and will consist at the most Of about oDe store l and one or two saloons and a black 1 smith shop in addition to the rail l road offices and warehouses. We are sorry to say that we can see brighter than this in the fu- tGre of Kingman.
 We are reliably informed that the | parties who claim to own this town | site have not as yet secured a proper title to the ground, and as the town | site is on government land we pre- sume that anybody who wants lot in the proposed town may go and help themselves to one, without pay | ing $2O0 for what they can take up for nothing, and no extra charge for corner lots; but nobody in this vicin- ty wants any lots in such 8 place at 2 gift.
 To people at distance who buy ots in this or any other town on pa per we have this advice to offer: Look we'll before you leap, and don't oe lured int investing in town lots hat you know nothing about, even though you are assured that the own will be the future county seat etc. And bear this in mind, that the county seat of Mohave county can lot under any circumstances be moved from Mineral Park under three 7ears at the very least even if the in labitants of the county voted to move t elsewhere, which they will not do or years, if they ever do, as it is centrally located now. We have yet o hear whether the railroad author ties themselves countenance this cheme. We rather think not, and hall not be surprised to hear any lay that the Atlantic & Pacific rail oad company will lay out town of heir own in Wallapai valley at or lear the Wallapai siding and supply t with water from artesian wells, bored at the expense of the company. f artesian water is ever found in Nallapai valley, the coming town will be somewhere in that valley and Aingman and all other such schemes lot founded on a legitimate basis will die an ignomenious death and ,e buried beneath its own sand and he festive horned toad will again lave undisputed possession of its .VenueS and choice corner lots aS at