Mohave County miner., 1908-12-19


 count of the holiday trade.
 Dr. l.. D. Godshall, of the Needles shelter, was in Kingman yesterday attending to mining business.
 Crozier X Grounds are fitting up the big room in the Beale block for their new meat market, which will be opeL- ed about the first of February.
 L. J. Lassell is suffering from the effects of fall while crossing from the drugstore to the Lov'n x Withers corner last Thursday morning.
 William Thompson, brother of k. F. Thompson. came in from New Mexico last week This is the first meeting of the brothers in forty years, having parted when boys in California.
 Thomas McGraw, a well known mine manager of Chloride, was Tn Kingman yesterday. Mir. McGraw has been managing the Cerhat properties of the Arlzona-Mexican Smelling company.
 Another new schedule on ores to the Needles shelter has been put in effect from points along the road as far east as Yavapai county and ctv. ering the desert section of the wes,. We will give the rates in our next issue.
 County Recorder R. A. Robertson and wife returned Wednesday last from San Bernardino, where they vis- tied with H. l.. Dickson and wife. Mr. Dickson and wife are soon to leave for the east, where in future they will re- side. It was only 24 above zero Thursday and Friday nights. yet everybody in this part of the territory professed to the belief that it was that much be- low. Were it not for the winds from the frozen north no one would have felt the cold snap.
 One of Lovin x Withers big oil l teams became scared at John Barry's | automobile, several miles south of Kingman, yesterday afternoon, and ran away breaking up one of the wagons, necessitating sending to town for another wagon. The team was un- hurt.
 The Kingman public s,hool literary society will give literary entertain, ment at Elks Hall on the evening of December 23. Admission is to be free Each of the departments of the school are to have tree and appropriate ex- ercises on the afternoon of December 24th.
 L. Hoffman, superintendent of the Arizona Southwestern Copper con- pany, went down to Yucca Tuesday night to visit the company's mines in Grow Canyon, but the heavy fall of snow on the mountain prevented him from crossing the divide.
 O. A. Eshom came in from his ranch | sixteen miles east of Yucca, last Thurs day evening, and reports that when he left the ranch there was five inches of snow covering the plains in that neighborhood. On the mountain it was thought that fully eighteen inches of snow fell.
 Judge J. R. Russell returned last Sunday from two months trip through the east. He visited at the old hon in Baltimore and had the time of his life. He reports the east taking on new life since the election and that there is plenty of money for investment in good stocks and mining properties.
 l. M. George is getting his big room in the George building in shape for the installation of his new cold storage plant and uptodate market. which will | be opened some time in January. His . present quarters are too small for his growing business and it is his present intention to make the new market one of the best appointed in the territory.
 Lovin x Withers have completed their new office, in the rear of the bic store, and Thursday evening the office force took formal possession. The new office is to be uptodate in every