Mohave County miner., 1910-02-19

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 c. R. Van Marter departed this morning to Prescott, where he will at tend to business affairs.
 Chess Carpenter has gone in to Los Angeles to purchase opera chairs and scenery for the Happy Hour theater.
 S. T. Elliott this week departed to Chicago, where he will make his purchase for spring and summer goods.
 Major W. A. Mensch departed last night to Los Angeles, where he will attend to business matters for a few days.
 The burning out of an oil stump near the oil tanks, yesterday, brought out large crowd, the belief obtaining that the tanks were on fire.
 Mrs. s. W. Ware has gone to Needles, where she will remain for a few months for the benefit of her health. Mir. Ware went down to Needles with her.
 Williams is to have Sunday School Rally on Monday, the 2lst day of February, to which delegates are ex- pected from Williams, Ash Fork, Flagstaff, Kingman and Winslow.
 W. J. Prout, of Palo Alta, Cali fornia, was a Kingmsn visitor this week. Mir. Prout is heavy property owner of this place and looked over the real estate situation.
 Rev. Father Vabre has put a new bell in the steeple of the Catholic church and it will call the con- municants to mass for the first time tomorrow at ten o'clock.
 Jack Mitchell, who has been over in the Chloride and Mineral Park section the past month, reports that mining in that part of Wallapai district is show ing up we'll and that before sixty days passes by there will be several hundred men at work.
 A. L. McKesson is in Kingman from his mines, near Little Meadows. He reports that the location work on the claims showed up some splendid ore. The veins are large and the showing of gold is better than anything he has seen in the country in recent years.
 Qrife number of miners and pro spectors are at work in the south part of Cottonwood district, on the copper and gold prospects of that section. The owners of the gadolinite claims are also putting them in shape for outputting. Gadolinite is used in the making of mantles for gas lamps.
 Red Cloud Tribe of Red Men, of Goldroad, will give a grand ball and supper at that big gold camp on the evening of February 22 (Washington's Birthday, and have invited everybody to attend. The order stands we'll among the people of the Gold Road section and the boys contemplate an enjoyable time.
 Last Sunday the shearers completed shearing the focks of Jones and Robin son and departed to other fields. About thirty thousand sheep are ex- pected here on the first of March, it having been deemed best not to begin the work on the large ,hocks before the grasses and weeds in this part of the territory are capable of sustaining the flocks.
 D. M. Martin, of the Cotton Land company, has been in Phenix entering lands in the Mohave valley. The Cot ton Land company is getting things in shape for the reclamation of a large area of lands along the Colorado river and have teams at work building the big dikes that is to prevent the over- flow of the river onto these lands. It is probable that the lands will be en- tered as overflow lands and that the company will take over the entire acreage of the Sanla Fe in the valley. The lands are the richest in the world, having had the benefit of hundreds, or probably thousands, of years of the en- richment of the Colorado river over flow. With the prevention of the flooding of these lands immense crops of alfalfa, sugar cane, sorghum, cotton, fruits, canteloupes, watermelons and every class of vegetable can be raised