Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-13
News of Parker on the Colorado.


 A party of government engineers have just arrived at Parker and es- 1 tablished 8 temporary camp north of the town. They are preparing to do some typographical work up the Colo radO river north of Parker. The peo- pie of Parker are hopeful that they may be designated by the general land toffice to survey the townsite while On the ground.
 Parker continues to stay on the map, and quite a number of small buildings and tent-houses have been erected l during the past fortnight ] The new engineering assay office | building of Bragonier & Armstrong is completed, and an assay outfit in- | stalled.
 Peter Waters and son James have arrived in town from their copper property in the Riverside mountains. It is freely predicted by mining men that the Riverside country will be the scene of future activity in the copper 1 field.
 Horace Mann, an 0ld-timer of Bis bee, passed through Parker a few ! days ago. Mir Mann, in company with party of Eastern capitalists, spent a week looking over the Blythe Ranch proposition south of here on the Colo. rado, and was so pleased with the proposition that he purchased a ranch of 160 acres and says he will immed- lately clear the ground and begin ac- l tive farming Mir Mann stayed over few days in Parker and was so fav- Orably impressed with it's location and future prospects, that he secured build ing permits for two lots with a view to starting a building and construction business here later on. On his home trip to Bisbee, he expects to go cross country from Phoetnix to Globe via the Roosevelt dam, and inspect the big pond
 A party of Parker business men left last Sunday to look up feasible route for wagon road from Parker to the Bill Williams country via the Planet and Signal mines. The road will probably pass via the Osborne prop erty where extensive development work is being done at the present time.
 Jacob Henkle, an old-time Arizonan at enc time sheriff of Yavapai county, arrived a few days ago from
 
 winter quarters at Parker. He left yesterday morning for the Lime Kiln mountains. fifteen miles south of here, to spend couple of weeks looking into some favoFably reported golo prospects there.
 H. E. Hardwick, accompanied by J. R. Paddock of Los Angeles, passed through Parker a few days ago CT route to the Continental mine. 4 company has recently been organized to take over a group of claims in lhat district, and it is the intention of Mir. Hardwick to push some development work
 George Brazle spent few days in town recently from his Copper Prince mine in the Monument Peak district. Mir. Brazle says he has just bonded the property to some Kansas City capitalists, and that active develop ment work will soon start.
 Ben Coleman, formerly Of 3is)ee, has moved his camp from rha cclo- radof river to a point in the Nkipole mountains on the California side, where he win do some development work on a new discovery. Coleman is very enthusiastic over his new strike.
 Messrs Santmyer and Bottsford have just returned from a trip made down the Colorado river from Parker to the Potholes in a new bower boat recently built by Santmyer. They re- port successful trip.
 M. D. Paddock, a well known min ing man of Los Angeles. has been ih Parker for the past week inspecting some of the properties in this section.