Mohave County miner., 1909-06-26

Mrs. w. J. Cummings is up from the Big Sandy country visiting with her son for few weeks.
 Mrs. Walter Casteel, who has been in Los Angeles the past two weeks, returned to Kingman the first of the week.
 Charles Roe came up from the Nee dles the first of the week to make the acquaintance of his new daughter who is about month old.
 Miss Alta Hubbs is taking the sum- mer course at the Normal school at Flagstaff, having departed to the Sky light City last Monday.
 George w. Miller and Sam Sloan, two of the largest cattle raisers in the county east of Blackberry, were King man visitors this week.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Barry, accom- panied by Alfred Conkey, were over from Chloride Thursday last in Mr. Barry's big car. They returned dur ing the afternoon.
 The young people of Kingman have concluded that they will make some show of celebrating the Fourth of July and have taken up subscription of over one hundred dollars with which to purchase night fireworks. The fireworks will be displayed from the summit of the bluff to the northeast of the town, and the display is said to be one of the best the town has witnessed.
 Mrs. Grace Fox arrived in Kingman yesterday from her home in Goldteld. She will visit with her relatives a few days and will go to Los Angeles with her mother sometime next week. Mrs. Wilson has been very ill the past month and it has been decided that she will be taken to the California, hospital, Los Angeles, for treatment. Three of her daughters, Mesdames A. F. Harris, M. Force and Grace Fox, will attend her in Los Angeles.
 Dr.. J. R. Whiteside has called to- gether the committee, recently ap- pointed for the formation of a perma- nent mining organization, to meet at Elks Hall next Monday evening" Everybody interested in the matter is requested to be present. Do not let any business engagements prevent you from attending this meeting, as it por- tends much for the advancement of the county. A boost now is better than two boosts after you are dead.
 One of the big machines that was being hauled out to Goldroad was overturned on the mountain above the camp. Fortunately the piece of machinery stuck in the soil at the side of the road and can be again loaded without dam- age. Had it gone off in hard place it might have rolled to the bottom of the canyon. The machine was the base of the agitator of one of the big cyanide tanks and was about thirty feet in circumference.
 William E. Frost has entered into a contract with Mr. Houck, of Los An geles to deliver at Wallapai Springs fifty cars of fertilizer from his goat pens. Teams are now engaged in haul tug and it is believed that fully one hundred carloads can be had. Mir. Frost gets fifty cents per ton for the material, while the contractor is said to realize several dollars per ton. Shipment is being made from Berry, a point on the Santa Fe six miles east of Kingman.
 Joseph Edgar Merritt, of San Fran cisco, died at Boulder Springs, about six miles south of Kingman, last Thursday. Some tune ago Mr. Mer- ritt came here apparently in the last stages of consumption, and with his wife took up a residence in tent house at Boulder in the belief that our sunny climate would bring him back to health, but the ravages of the. dis ease had weakened the system, which failed to respond to the tonic of the climate. Mr. Merritt had been gen. eral manager of one of the Associated Oil Company operating in the Bakers field section, but had not been actively