Mohave County miner., 1909-10-02


 Kean St. Charles and wife are home from trip to Los Angeles.
 Will Eshom, of the Cienega ranch, is in Kingman looking after business matters.
 Henry Lovin is getting his new res- idence buildings toward the completed stage.
 Judge w. G. Blakely will hold serv- ices at the church tomorrow evening at 7:3O. All are cordially invited.
 The dance last Saturday evening, given for the benefit of the Van Mar ter band, netted the organization the sum of twenty-five dollars.
 Miss Cornelia Hartwell, of Flagstaff, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Elliott this week. The young lady is just return ed from an European trip.
 Joseph Roland, formerly a resident of Mohave county, is now resident of Barnwell, where he is interested in mining in the New York Mountains.
 Mrs. Elsie Paddleford is visiting with her sister, Mrs. H. w. Kemper, in Kingman. Miss Elizabeth Woods, of Los Angeles, is also visiting with Mrs. Kemper.
 Joseph Krauss, who has been visit ing the northwest, returned home this week, passing through Kingman on his way to Oatman, where he has min ing interests.
 Dr. J. R. Whiteside and Carl G. Krook returned from Phenix the first of the week, having attended the ban quet in honor of w. J. Bryan. They say that MT. Bryan made the speech of his life at the banquet board.
 Mir. Pendergast, the contractor, is building a stone house on his premises west of the Catholic church, which is to be used as an apartment or rooming house. The building is to be one of the most commodious in the town.
 Miss Estella Knowles and Mrs. Nellie Clippinger, of this county, have been awarded certificates to teach, on examination taken before Probate Judge L. M. Teale last month. Miss Knowles will teach the school at Chlo- ride and Mrs. Clippinger is teaching at Oatman.
 The base ball fans are getting to- gether team of ball players in King man for the forthcoming meeting of the clubs of the county, A purse will be subscribed by the business men for the winning team to take down. Goldroad and Oatman teams are SUD- posed to take part in the tournament.
 Nearly all the business houses of the town have put in electric lights and the effect is quite pleasing The Elks and Happy Hour theaters have the new lights, which bring out picture and other effects to the best advantage. Residences througout the town are being wired and will soon be using the new lights.
 E. M. Lamont and Walter Fellows, who recently looked over the Big Sandy valley and it's irrigation possi- bilities, returned to Kingman the first of the week. The gentlemen believe that many thousand acres of fertile lands can be brought under cultivation by the proper conservation of the wa- ters of the various streams stored at small expense. At the present time only the lands lying low along the streams is irrigated, but the empound- ing of the waters of the various streams is irrigated, but the empound- ing of the waters of the various streams would make it possible to irrigate the fertile lands lying high above the reach of the present canals and later- als. The high lands, as rule, are not in the frost belt and greater range of products could be raised It is quite possible that the attempt will be made to store the waters of all the streams and make the Big Sandy one of the great agricultural valleys of the ter