Mohave County miner., 1899-05-20
Chloride and Vicinity.
Special correspondence.

The old Byrd saloon building is be
ing renovated and handsomely fitted
up for business.
A drugstore at Chloride will soor
be established and a meat market and
bakery will follow suit.
The sporting resorts are preparing
for rush of business, and additions
are being put up in a number of places
Charles Sangster, of Los Angeles,
has large mercantile establishment
almost ready to receive a large stock
of goods. .......
The new boiler and engine at the
Mollie Gibson mine is being put in
place. They arrived Monday on Dell
Beebe's freight wagons.
Barker & Schemmelpfennig have be-
gun work on claim they own between
town and the Mollie Gibson mine.
They start in on 700 ounce ore.
New wells are being dug everywhere
and many are down and water is plen-
tiful. No charges are made now for
water at the hotel and Oscar Simmons.
The new liquor house of Capt. Ike
Conkey is being pushed to completion.
and rumor has it that the Captain will
lease the building to Los Angeles par
ties, who will open it up as a sporting
resort.
A Mexican is working on a contract
for the manufacture of 10000 adobes.
These have mostly been engaged for
resident and business houses, the new
drugstore building will be composed
of this material.
j. G. Swickard, who with his partner.
sold the Iowa mine last winter for
handsome sum, has caught the land |
and building fever and is erecting him
self another habitation close to Al. |
Green's new cottage
Jack Kay has become convinced as
to the future of Chloride and, after
four years waiting to see, has finished
ceiling his liquor store overhead. and
can now vie with the best places of
business in town.
The railroad gang is near town. and
will soon have the work of cutting brush
for the shovelers and graders out of the
way right up into the suburbs. The
depot will be located west of the pub
lie square about 300 yards, but a switch
for the mines will be built from the
south end of Silver Hill.
AL. Green, the cobbler, has been doing
something for himself in real estate
besides repairing foot wear. He has
located lots and erected houses on
them which he sold right away. and ,
now has another small house almost
completed which he will use as shop.
The John Chinaman spoken of two ,
weeks ago as erecting a new restaurant ,
has been clear up to his pig tail in {
business for several days and is setting [
up the finest meals in town. By invi- &
tation the MINER correspondent sam {
pied one of his meals and found II |
fine and appetizing. 1
A young lady astride burro. on s
the streets Wednesday morning created {
comment among the street I
denizens, and can only be explained c
by having its origin in the epoch of the |
boom. She was stranger to all pres Q
ent, but came from up toward the v
mines. S
Robt. J. Ferguson d Sons sent out V
large lot of supplies to the Redemption
mine Wednesday morning and will I
soon commence development work on T
that promising property with good =
force of men. The tunnel is in eighty &
feet with six inch vein of eighty
ounce ore. u
Col. Young, attorney for the Elkhart
mine, dropped little bomb into the
real estate activity this week by stat
ng that Chloride and vicinity was on u
'allroad land. The question as to i
title to mining lands. he said, was 4
natter of doubt, but would soon be v
settled as the question was now before v
,he courts. 4
There are many strangers in town =,
'eeking to establish themselves in
heir various branches and lines, but :
he inevitable hobo has come too. II
nay be that n committee will be or
rauiZp1 tO piva thi1 ,aaf kbn I.