Mohave County miner., 1899-08-05
White Hills.
From our regular CORES. oudeut

Hills today. There had been threat
ening weather for some time, and a
nice shower last Light, but today del
uge was food and took the desert by
surprise. The rain commenced at 7:3O
this morning and IN few minutes the
water was failing in sheets. The town
Is bnilt Ia gap of the hills, just below
a canyon, with a Fix mile slope above.
soon the water came streaming down
the streets. A shanty in its path bade
good bye to the town and started for
the valley, and by nine o'clock the
whole town was in danger. The water
came tossing down like the rapids
above Niagara, the waves seeming to
run four or five feet high. Luckily
the wafer took path to one side of the
business section. Mr.. Dewey's house
was wrecked, the debris and contents
OF the house being scattered a long
distance. A house adjoining. belong
ing to the White Hills store also went
to pieces. Then the cabin of W. W.
James, known As the SOLDIERS Home"
lost its grip on the earth and was de-
molished. A cabin in which Mr.. Shall
lenbeIger was sleeping was lifted and
whirled end for end. After much
floundering in the the water he man
aged to pull ashore with his blankets.
The foundation was washed from under
the east side Of the schoolhouse and it
lies tilted towards the sunrise with
mud piled inside. Many dwellings
were flooded few inches causing much
Inconvenience and some loss. A cellar
of the White Hills store was partly
flooded, and the labels soaked off sew
eral cases of canned goods. The streets
are full OF rocks and ruts, and in places
foot or two in depth of added soil
was contributed by the too generous
waters. The roads are simply cut to
pieces on the slopes, so that six horses
to one wagon is the way they come
now. At two of the company's mines
work had to be temporarily suspended,
viz: the Grand Army Extension and
the Norma tunnel shaft. There is
sixty feet of water in the former. MIR.
Jas. Fleming was working on his lease
in the Garfield in an upraise from a
tunnel BE got out just in time to es-
cape being bottled up, as the tunnel
was nearly filed when he reached the
outside. At A. l.. McKesson's mine
o. w. Luton succeeded in turning a
large stream from the shaft, one that
would have have filed it to the collar.
and driven up the two men or drowned
them. The Foreman Bros. in the At
rican could not come up the 200 feet of
ladders, for the water and rocks were
streaming down together. Luckily a
trench turned the main sheet of water
and the men thus escaped the fate that
might have been theirs. The loss to
property owners is not very great, but
the damage to roads is severe and it
will take some time to get them in
shape again. We might call this affair
.Tpo Much of Good Thing" for water
sells at 8 per barrel in White Hills.
On that basis we had a great celebra-
tion-a luxurious million dollar bath.
According to NJ Santa Cruz the rain
lasted two hours and forty minutes.
Ide Hamblin is in from Chloride.
NJ. Scanlon is back from Kingman.
W. A. Robinson has returned from
weeks stay in Kingman.
Peter Dabovitch was robbed of 65s
last night. The money was taken from
his cabin.
Al. s,hornick is recovering from an
attack of infiammatory rheumatism.
Mr.. Anderson, expert assayer and
mining man, is exploiting copper
property near the Senator.
We are in receipt of some very cred
liable job printing from the MINER
Office. Its good enough for anyone.
Several of our citizens are required
to go to Prescott and give final testi-
urony in the White Hills patent contest
case.
1t is said that VIM. Weston, the noted
mining expert of Cripple Creek, now
has charge of the White Hills proper
ties. He is expected in few days.
G.. A. Citizens has returned from
outing at Santa Catalina Is
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