Mohave County miner., 1908-12-19

Los Angeles yesterday afternoon IT
 their big red touring car. They were
 delayed a day or two at Needles by
 the burning out of some part of the
 machine. They expect to go on to
 Chloride, where they will remain
 some time.
 Ross H. Blakely, who has been
 rounding up bunch of cattle in the
 Mohave Valley. returned home this
 week. He says that the Colorado riv-
 CT bottoms have bred up race of the
 fastest cattle in the United States and
 that if he can ever get his rope on a
 few of them he will break and enter
 them in the next sweepstakes at the
 territorial fair.
 The government is to peddle off the townsite of Parker, sometime in Feb rua,y, 1909, or at least sell out the lots to intending residents of that place. Just how the lots are to be dealt out has not yet been made public, but it will probably be by drawing in the usual way. The site of the town is on the Colorado Indian reservation at the east end of the big bridge that spans the Colorado river.
 The Hercules Mercantile company, of Kelvin, has bought out the build- ings and stocks of some of it's rival merchants and will remove to the Hats from it's present abode. Henry Lovin is at the head of the Hercules company. He reports that Kelvin is forging ahead and that under the stim ulous of advance in copper prices the camp and surrounding sections may become one of the big copper centers of the territory.
 Mesdames A. Yer Mehr and John w. Harris were called to Mineral Park Thursday last by the serious illness of their father, Charles Gross. A report is cul rent that Mr. Gross passed away last night, but it has not been con-
 irmed. Mr. Gross is about eighty years of age. When young man he was gunner in the Prussian navy and while still young man came to Arizona. He built the first store in tne old placer camp of La Paz and was one of the early supervisors of Yuma 
 John J. Mackey, a mining man, died at the Commercial Hotel Wednesday evening last of Bright's disease. Mack ey had been here about ten days and appeared to be in good health. Some mystery attaches to the man, as he was receiving mail in Los Angeles un der the name of John T. Hammond, and it would appear that that was the name of his parents, who reside in Olathe, Kansas. He has wife living in Sacramento. As yet the coroner has not gotten in communication with Mackey's parents and the body is be- ing held at the undertaking rooms of Van Marter and Casteel pending in- ,tructions from relatives.
 One of the greatest storms in years passed over northern Arizona last Monday and Tuesday. All the moun- tains of this county are covered with a heavy coating of snow, while in the low lands the rainfall was immense. To the east of us more than two inches of rain fell during the storms, swelling streams out of their banks and causing much damage. Near Winslow the Santa Fe pump house was swept away by the over1owing of the Little Colo rado and two bents of the railroad bridge were carried out, delaying trains more than twenty-fOur hours. From the Salt River valley comes re- ports of great floods and much damage. In this country no damage has resulted, although cattle may suf- fer considerably from the bitterly co d weather that followed in the wake of the storm.
 Senator Flint, of California, has in- troduced measure in congress pro- viding for the protection of the town of Needles from the encroachment of the Colorado river. The past several years the Colorado river has been bor- ing into the banks above Needles with such disastrous effect that the people