Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-20
MOHAVE COUNTY
FULL or RICHES AND VERY BAD
 MANAGEMENT
Wherd 1t is and What it is---The Dawn of Agriculture---What the Chronic Growlers are Doing---Instan- ces of Bad Management
 Tine Boom Surely
 Coming.
KINaMAN. Sent. 13. 1890,

est some ofyour readers to know where we live, how We live, and what we are doing generally We live in Mohave county and it Is situated in the northwestern portion of Arizona, with as fine a climate as the sun ever shown upon; where we can raise anything when we are not too lazy to plant; there are acres and acres of ground which can be made to raise any thing
 Chronic growlers and drones, who lay around gin mills, will tell you that you cant raise anything because you have no water. The fact is, in our mines we have too much water, and we get all the water We want and more too, in digging forty to a hundred feet anywhere wherever We have dug so far Those who have planted are raising excellent fruit and are getting good prices for all they raise. 1t IS only a few years ago that the first fruit tree or vine was planted in this section of the territory. and today we have ls fine fruit as grows on any mans tree or vine on the face of the earth. Still, we are cursed with a lot of chronic growlers. who won't do anything themselves nor let anybody else do anything if they can help it.
 Geo. Bowers, of the Night Hawk mine, has taken up l60 acres in Sacramento val
 
 is situated. and he Is going to pipe the water from his mine to it, distance of about l5 a mile, and 1 predict that in less than three years George will have beau tiful home. He has now good house on the place and he has a practical gardener and horticulturist laying off the ground, | getting it ready to plant later on. This is l the first introduction in Sacramento val | ley, in this section in less than ten years l hence there will not be an acre of ground l but what will be under the blow, and those | who say we can't raise anything will be ready to hide their heads or ought to.
 As to our mining interests, there is not another district on the globe that has produced the amount of rich silver ore that Hualpa mining district has produced l nOr one that has been So poorly managed It seems that as soon as a corporation gets hold of piece of property with any 1 merit, there commences system Of rob { bery. The eastern people have put 1T their money in good faith to develop 6 property and run mill but what has become of the money It seems as il eastern men have too much business II the east to come to Arizona to even sec what has become of their money! The Hon superintendent and manager anG sometimes the president of the company reports to the stockholders, and.of course its all very smooth; the stockholders fee that Arizona, above all other countries, i a good place to stay away from and whel the president and superintendent have got away with all the money they car possibly get out of the stockholder the! will pack up their grip sacks and leavt for. God knows where, and they are al ways ready to say, keep away from Arl
 zona.
 Some of your readers will remembe about two years ago when Allan ". Thur man, who Is president of a mining com
 pany here, told reporter-of a Clevelan.
 paper that Arizona was the most God for saken country he ever saw. Now 1 wisl to impress upon your mind that he sal, that after he had been over to Minera
 Park, where his property Is situated, ant
 told the people there that he was going
 to work his mill and mine steadily iron
 that time on: Tn fact he was then on hi
 road to San Francisco to buy the ueces
 sary machinery to work the ores, and il
 less than six months he would show then
 a lively camp. But what did Mir Thur
 man do? He told the people that we hay the most Cod-forsaken country on tn
 globe.
 Tue people around Mineral Park thinl
 the reverse; they think they have one 0
 the best countries, and the prospects c some of the best mines and they do knO'
 that Allan w. Thurman Is the represen
 tatiye of one of the most God -forsake
 companies that ever operated in any com
 try.
 There was party at Mineral Park wh
 wished to lease the property from hin
 when he was there; but no. he will nc
 work 1t himself nor let anyone else wor
 it. Consequently the mill and mine ar
 lying idle, and to any stranger who come here to see us it is there as a monument C bad management.
 Just think of 1t for one moment, tn mine, to old miners, is known as the Key stone; it has produced thousands of do lars. The present company, under tn
 managementof Allan w. Thurman, has eN pended over $25,000 in developments an , the deepest working is not over 300 fee 1t would hardly cover q good sized gophe and it was very near that depth when th present management took hold of it. BU nevertheless the mining interest Is loon ? ing up, in other words there are prospect of q boom. There are some gentleme here from Colorado and some from Cal fornia and they are going to make sweep.
 Tine mining interest in Mohave count to-day are looking brighter than the have for years. There are men and cap ! tai coming il that mean business and T will keep you posted. Yours H.