Mohave County miner., 1909-08-07

'HSy S"PSSo Vo ldhc up UfdCU or lanl
 in the neighborhood of Salt Lake
 City. The land is being brought un der irrigation by new canal system and lands are being sold at low
 figure. Mr. Connelley intends to re.
 main on the land, while Mr. Tracey
 will return to Kingman in a month or
 two.
 o. D. Clack is one of the returned
 Mohaveites from Goldfeld. He re-
 ports that there are now not more
 than 45O. men employed in all the
 camps in and around Goldfield, includ-
 ing leasers. During the boom days
 fully 5000 men were employed at big
 wages. The Florence and Consolidated
 are the only mines employing anything
 like force of men.
 A great deal of complaint has been
 made by people living on East Front street of the habit railroad engine men have of blowing off their boilers b,- fore leaving the yards. The noise awakens everybody in that part of town every night and threats are made that criminal complaints will be sworn to and arrests made of the cul prits.
 O. D. Clack, who arrived in King man from Goldfield few days ago, reports that Frank Todd, we'll know n Mohave county man, committed sui. eide in that place last April. Todd at one time owned the Roadside group of mines, in the Union Pass section, af- terward sold to the San Diego con- pany. He was an honest, conscien- tious fellow and had many friends in this and Yavapai county.
 Zinc is gradually crawling back to the position it held in the market be- fore the slump of several years ago. It was quoted yesterday at 5.62. Lead is somewhat stationary, but there is no doubt that it will go to about five cents before the first of the year. The failing lead mines of the county is sure to cause reaction infavor of that metal as soon as the people real: that big lead mines are thing of the past. Mohave county will be greatly benefited by the appreciation of these two metals.
 At Wallapai Springs, few days ago, Walter Meyers had narrow escape from equalization while clean. ing out an old boiler. He was using gasoline to soften up the oil and dirt in the boiler and while working was overcome by the gases and only sue ceeded in getting out before becoming unconscious. He was found some time afterward by w. E. Frost, who with difficulty brought him to. His side was badly burned by contact with the gasoline, showing that he had fallen to the bottom of the boiler and soaked up the gasoline before gaining enough strength to crawl out. He is slowly recovering from the effects of the heavy gas.
 The Territorial Board of Control, at recent meeting, concluded not to take up the building of any other road in the territory this year, aside from the beginning of work on the great main thoroughfare from Douglas to the Grand Canyon. Next year the Board will begin the construction of other roads throughout the counties of the territory, and Mohave is practic. ally sure to get one of the roads. Mo- have county needs a road through the canyon below town badly and the county and people of Kingman should get together and build it. This can yon is one of the most dangerous pieces of road in the county. on ac- count of the possibility of cloudbursts in the watershed above, and especially so, as it is one of the most travelled roads in the north part of the terri tory.
 The Balaklala Consolidated Copper Company has blown in its second smell ter, the operation meaning the em- ployment of 40 more men at the re- duction plant and over 75 at the mine of the company. For several months the big plant has merely worked along under one furnace pressure, and used