Mohave County miner., 1910-12-24

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 the holidays with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Anson H. Smith.
 H. E. Futile, a mining man oi Monterey, Mexico, is registered at the Brunswick. Mir. Futile believes that the insurrection now in progress in the sister republic will have a very depres- sing effect on mining and that the southwest of the United States will be largely benefited by these adverse conditions.
 Wilbur Babcock of Chloride, and Miss Helen Wilcox, of Long Beach, were united in marriage yesterday afternoon by Probate Judge L. M. Teale, in his office in the courthouse. The happy young couple have the best wishes of large circle of friends for a long and happy married life. They will reside in Chloride, where Mir. Babcock has large mining interests.
 Mohave county will receive some thing over 5OOs from the forest re- serve fund, which goes toward the building of roads or school purposes, as the supervisors of the county may decide. These disbursements made by the forest service bureau to the diff ferent states and territories in which forest reserves exist, amount to many hundreds of thousands per year and is doing good in the way of road buil- ding in the isolated sections of the country. Arizona territory received more than 5O,OOOS this year from this source, Coconino getting the largest part of the disbursement.
 A new general time table goes into effect tomorrow on the Santa Fe. Under the schedule trains will arrive in Kingman at the following times: West bound: No 1 arrives at 4:l6; No. ', $50; No. g, 4:47, p. m.; No. 3, 2:22 a. m. East bound: No. 10, 1l:l5 a. m.; No. ?, 1905; No. 8, 1O:2O; No. 1, 11;15 D. m. This is but slight change from the present schedule. Four times week until June there will be two west bound flyers, the other trains carrying back the equipment. The railroad is just now carrying a greater tonnage of freight than at any other time in its history, fifty-ive per cent of the orange crop of California going over this route.
 More than two hundred head of horses and mules are now employed in digging canals and building dikes on the great Cottonia project, in Mohave valley. The people at the head of the project are among the best known financiers of the coast and have brought to a successful conclusion many important irrigation projects. The reclamation of this great tract of land will bring more than a million dollars worth of taxable property to Mohave county and will be of inesti- mable benefit to the county at large, as showing what brawn, brains and mOn- ey will do in the retaining of what has hitherto been considered worthless lands, and which is now considered the richest lands in the territory. When the dikes have been completed about 50, 900 acres of land will be available for farming, and on this land practical ly everything in farming products can be grown.
 G. s. Coleman, the fireman who was so terribly scalded and otherwise in- jured in the explosion of the boiler of engine No. 957, near McConnico, on the 29th of last July, is in Kingman visiting with friends. The escape of Mir. Coleman from instant death is one of the mericles of the age. The great boiler was lifted from it's cradle frame and thrown forward 465 feet, while the engineer was blown fully one hundred feet back along the train. Coleman was blown through the air, high up, sailing along side by side with part of the cab. The cab struck the end of box car, five car lengths from the engine, shearing off the rear end of the car, while the man went still farther and fell about twenty feet from the track. One leg was broken, his shoulder dislocated and he was burned from his feet to his head on one side. He was conscious all the time and suffered great pain. His in- juries were dressed by Drs. Whiteside and Cowie and he was then shipped to Los Angeles, where he was in the hospital until about one month ago.