Mohave County miner., 1902-05-31
Items culled from Our Exchanges

trains make two trips daily from mine
to mill.-Lincoln Record.
Miss Bertha Beecber, of Kingman,
has been engaged by the school board
to take charge of the second grade this
fall.-Williams News.
la the Superstition mountains, Ari.
zona, engineers have found an artificial
gorge four miles long and one hundred
feet deep, cut down through solid rock
by prehistoric irrigators and leading
into l2J miles of bitches, which irri.
gated nearly 1000 acres of land, now
only desert waste covered with the
ruins of the ancient people.
The patent conveying the land grant
lands in this forest reserve from the
United States to the Santa Fe Pacific
Railroad company we're received on
Thursday for record by Recorder Hib.
ben. This is the first step in the trans
fer of the holdings of the railroad com.
psny in the reserve back to the gov.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sun.
Information from St. David conveys
the intelligence that upon the preced-
ing day Mr.. John S. Merrill had struck
one of the best flowing artesian wells
ever sunk in the settlement. The flow
exceeds 200 gallons per minutes-2SS,
900 gallons daily. Such wells are very
valuable properties, for one of them
will irrigate u deal of land.-Benson
Press.
Steve Bedell is the proud possess or
of handsome gold watch and chain.
present to him from his mining part.
ner, Judge West. These two worthy
citizens have just completed the sale
OF their mining property over in Ari.
zona on which the handsome sum of
50.U0 : was realized Mr.. Bedell and
wife have gone back to their old home
in New York on visit, while big
hearted Judge West remains at home
to perform his official duties as one of
the best county supervisors we ever
had. Before leaving on their trip Mrs.
Bedell was also the recipient of a
handsome gold watch, the gift of Col.
Thomas Ewine.-Needles Eye.
The territorial democratic central
committee met at Phenix Tuesday last
and agreed on Tucson and the date
September 8 for holding the territorial
convention, at which time and place a
candidate for delegate to congress will
be nominated. The ratio of represen.
tstion was fixed at one delegate for
every fifty votes cast at the last elec-
tion for Mark Smith. The fact OF the
holding of the convention in Tucson
is move for the denomination of
Mark Smith And it would appear to
US at this distance that Smith has a
walk Tower for the place. His efforts iD
behalf of the admission of the terri.
tories has made him very popular with
not only the democrats but among the
republicans who recognize his great
of all the people.
The Tombstone Prospector says:
The mammoth wagon recently built at
Kings blacksmith and machine shop
has been loaded on the cars at Fair
bank and taken to Nacosari. The big
wagon will be used to carry several of
the large boilers OF the Nacossri com.
pany from the railroad to the mines.
Some of the dimensions of the nam
moth wagon will give an idea of it's
substantiabiity. The front wheels
stand six feet four inches high and the
tires band OF iron four inches wide
and two inches thick. Two large tim
bers 12xl2 and sixteen feet long weigh
iug several thousand pounds each are
the "rods" and the iron work, bolts,
frame, etc, all built and arranged with
reference to strength could not fail to
impress one with its solidity and sub
stantial construction. The whole ve-
hicle weighs nearly 10000 pounds and
its carrying capacity easily placed at
10000 pounds. The wagon will be used
on several trips to haul five boilers
weighing 25,0O0 pounds each, and the
construction Of the vehicle reflects
great credit upon its builders.
Ex-Governor Tritle, president of the
Tritle Water Company, informs us that
owing to the unavoidable absence Of