Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1908-04-01
ACTIVITY IN AND
AROUND TOWN
OF PARKER
Prospsctors And Mining
Men Arriving
Daily


Activity in and around Parker, on
the Colorado river, where the builders
Of the \. q &. railroad are constructing
the big bridge, il greater now than at
any time previous to the beginning of
work there. declares e. W. Mckee,
who has been III Parker for some time
past. and has just returned 10 Phoenix.
Bridge building goes on apace, he
stated about 300 men being now en-
ployed TIE general opinion prevails
NJ Parker that the work will not cease
until the structure is completed, and
that the completion Of the road on the
California side will follow this rapidly.
Some grading is now being done on
the California side, and a force is also
working out Of Bengal, the junction
point with the Santa Re.
Speaking Of the bridge work, Mr..
Mckee said the false work, that is,
the pilng and trestlc necessary for use
during the sinking of caissons, IN now
finished clear across the river to tnc
California side. Two Of the caissons
are completed, the third is nearly FIN
ished and work is progressing on the
fourth and fifth caissons.
Equally as pleasing is the news OF
the activities of private capital in that
vicinity. Recently two automobiles
bearing two bankers, two real estate
men and other Los Angeles capitalists
seeking investments, arrived in Park
or, having come down the river from
Needles. The next day five more PEG
pie also arrived in Parker, from Need
les, via auto transportation. Sevcra
discoveries of fine ore have been made
near Parker recently, one of them b!
iinrdwick Brothers, Of Los Angeles
Two sales Of mining properties in tn'
Riverside mountains, a short distanc
west of Parker have been announce,
within a few days, and every day from
one to half n dozen prospecting partie
drift into Parker and out again.
Three new boats are being built a
Parker for river trafic mainly for haul
ing supplies to mines or other invest
ments up and down the river iron
Parker. Two of these boats will pl.
between Parker and the Blythe cs
, tate's holdings on the California sid
, of the river at Ehrenberg, thirty Gv
ing handled now as a sort of a coloniz
; alton enterprise. II is Of large acreag
which is supplied with water throug
gravity canal taken out Of the Colo
RADIO through n solid rock head. Tn
acreage is being largely planted to a
falfa and settlement Is being encoui
aged. While II is in California, it
all commercially tributary to Parkel
Another big project, says Mr.. NJ
kee, is that of land and cattle con
pany which has leased a large sereag
on the Indian reservation below Parl
W. y" just INV tht N'i
, Of fencing 1t, having about 100 mil,
Of fence. II will be stocked with ca
a tie in n week or two, the company pr
posing to raise fat cattle for the Cal
fornia market. TIE land is fine and
n subject at times, AT least a large pc
q ton Of il, to the overflow Of the rive
j. There is good grazing and browse pra
I tically the year round, and probabl
), portions Of the area will be irrigate
and alfalfa grown for feed.
The town of Parker is growing m
!, terially, said Mr.. Mckee, and man
'. new tents and cottages nre now TO
J, seen. In fact, there is n general n
y Of activity all along the line Of II
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