Mohave County miner., 1910-02-12

the surrounding hills. He reports that business in that section is i'm proving and that the present year promises to be one of the best in its history.
 The Santa Fe is about to introduce a new system of train signals that the bright ones say will revolutionize the entire code formerly in use. A train ing car will soon go out on the road to instruct the trainmen in this new system. Much merriment is being caused by the system among the old hands and it will be taken up seriously by the employees.
 E. B. Atkinson, superintendent of the Truxton Canyon Indian school, was a Kingman visitor this week. He reports that by careful treatment the many cases of trachoma among the school children is disappearing. The worst cases would have been sent to the hospital at Phenix did not the parents object, but these are respond ing to treatment and the belief is that they will eventually recover.
 James Rosborough, known to all the people of this county, is very ill at his home in Los Angeles, being paralyzed on one side and unable to move hand or foot. Mir. Roseborough was at one time one of the most popular men in the county, having been elected sheriff of the county two terms on the republic can ticket. Everybody knew and liked Jim Roseborough and all these old friends wish him a speedy recov- cry.
 Edward Payson Weston, the world famed cross country walker, arrived in Kingman yesterday morning, and, after short rest, pushed on toward the east. He was accompanied by a press agent or manager and accom- panied by a motor car of the Santa Fe over each division. At Kingman he was met by a delegation of citizens and school children and later the Van Marter band serenaded him at the Commercial, where he had gone for a | few hours rest. The noted walker was unstinted in praise of the peerless climate of the desert and stated that he intended to return and enjoy more of it. MT. Weston is probably making this trip across the continent in the in- terest of the Santa Fe railroad, as everything of interest is to be made into story of the trip by the press agent and published by syndicate of newspapers. At the same time the desert section of Arizona will be bene- fitted by the good things that will be said of it in the articles. Mir. Weston has been walking over the United States since 1868 and now in his 73 year he is walking from ocean to ocean.
 The Cotton Land Company, which is just now building the big dike on the Colorado that will prevent overflow of the rich lands of the Mohave valley, will soon begin the construction of a large hotel, office buildings and houses for the accommodation of employees on Spear Lake, one of the biggest of the lakes in the valley. The company is preparing the ground with the inten- tion of planting a large area to date palms, peaches, apricots and grapes. In proper season one thousand acres of the tract will be planted to cotton. At Topock, on the Santa Fe, at the lower end of the valley, there are a large number of date palms now in bearing, having been planted there in part by the government for experi- mental purposes. These plants have made a wonderful growth, although the soil is not exactly suited to the culture of the best class of dates. On the richer soil of the valley it is ex- pected to grow the date to perfection, it being possible to grow the varieties that will fertilize all the others. All the fruits can be grown in the valley in profusion and melons can be made steady crop the greator part of the year. Cotton is to be the big crop and the best varities are known to have been grown at various points in the valley with great success. The com . L
 dertaking will be one of the greatest irrigation successes in the southwest.