Mohave County miner., 1910-12-17


 week in Los Angeles.
 The M. E. Sunday school will have a Christmas tree for its scholars next Saturday evening. There will be songs and recitations by the little folks.
 Mrs. Maud Emery came in from her home in Cotton, California, last Thurs day morning and will spend the holi- days with her mother, Mrs. J. P. Gideon.
 Mrs. Albert H. Smith stopped over for a day in Kingman to visit with friends, while on her way home from the old homestead in Missouri. She had been called home six weeks ago by the death of her father.
 Arthur Doran, who has been wit b the Arizona Stores Company, for sev- eral months past, departed the first of the week for Ludlow, Cal, where he has accepted a lucrative position. Mir. Doran has many friends in Kingman and will be missed by the young folks.
 Henry Lovin and D. W. Holloway returned last Sunday night from Phe- nix, where they have been the last sixty days, Mir. Lovin as the represen- tative of this county in the Constitu- tional convention and MT. Holloway as night watchman at the Capitol. They are both well satisfied with the work of the Convention and predict that the constitution adopted will carry at the forthcoming election by an immense majority.
 Ed. Peck, one of the pioneers of northern Arizona and the discoverer of the famous old Peck mine, in Yava- pal county, was found dead in bed in a Nogales hotel last Wednesday morn ing. Ed. Peck was well known in this county, having prospected throughout this section many years ago. He was genial fellow and liked by all who knew him. At the time of his death he was aged about 76 years. He came to the territory with one of the first parties that came over the old Beale route. Among the party was Mrs. Daniel Logan, then a girl in her teens. The party was stopped near Kingman by the Indians and turned back and attempted to find a crossing of the Colorado river at Diamond Canyon, but had to return eastward. Mrs. Lo- gan planted the seed from which sprung the peach trees near Peach Springs. Peck and large party went into the Prescott country, where they settled down to a mining life.
 It now appears that the Salt Lake road is back of all the work on the new Grand Canyon railroad, now be- ing located south from Lund, Utah. Frank H. Dudley, of Niagara Falls, New York, Is the president of the new corporation and John W. Burke, an- other New York man, is chief ecgineer. The company purposes to build about 800 mines of road, which will connect up the Salt Lake with the Grand Can yon along its northern rim and give an outlet along the river through one of the greatest scenic sections on earth. One of the branches will pass through Eldorado Canyon and Searchlight; an- other through Toquerville, Utah, to Fredonia, Arizona, just over the line in Coconino county, where it is ex- pected to connect with the Grand Can yon line of the Santa Fe. While it is improbable that such a line will be built, it is more than probable that the old line from some point on the | Muddy will be built to a connection | with the Chloride branch of the Santa Fe. The building of the lines to the | Canyon is assured, as the men behind | the scheme have unlimited capital and | are firm in the belief that a railroad | from the north would be far more at tractive than that to the south rim of | the Canyon, but it is only possible to reach them by line of railroad hun dred or more miles along the rim of the canyon, west from the point where | the Grand Canyon railroad of Utah | will reach the river.