Mohave County miner., 1910-04-16
Gsddis & Perry Company.

| Gsddis & Perry Company.
At a special meeting of the directors
of Gaddis & Perry company, held in
Kingman Thursday last, the capital
I stock of the company was increased to
75.OOOS. G. NJ. Stowe, capitalist of
Jacksonville, Florida, enters the COM
pany and takes up the increased stock.
The new company contemplates many
improvements and betterments in store
building and warehouses. with view
to the handling of largely increased
business. The store on the corner of
Beale and Fourth streets will be ex-
tended back fifty feet and the frontage
greatly improved. More warehouse
room will be built and larger stocks
carried. Mr.. Stowe brings to the
business the experience of years in
the general mercantile business OF his
native state and will have charge of
the detail of the business. The COM
pany has been doing a very large
business the past several years and the
growth of this new business has made
it imperative that capital and better
ments be brought together to meet
these business demands. Gaddis &
Perry company stands we'll in the com
munity and we feel sure that with
increased facilities they will be &C
corded a much greater patronage.
Tom E. MeClelland reports having
had a conversation with representa-
tive of the old ST. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad land department. It will
be remembered that this company,
when its land grant was transferred
to the Atlantic and Pacific and later
to the Santa Fe, retained a number of
townships through New Mexico and
Arizona. In this county the road owns
quite a number, the larger selections
having been made in Sacramento val
ley, running from point west of
Kingman to below Yucca and taking
in Gold Road. II also has several
townships in Wallapai valley and con-
templates sinking number of wells
throughout their grant for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether it is pos
sible to develop artesian water on
them. This man stated that the COM
pany had thirty-nine flowing wells in
New Mexico and had been the means
of bringing large colonies to that ter
ritory. Should they strike an artesian
flow in Waliapai valley that fertile sec
tion would soon be one of the richest
parts of the territory.
Court will meet again in Kingman
on the 18th of April, when the causes
affecting the title to the Tom Reed
mines, and docketed as w. c. Fellows
VS.. Tom Reed Gold Mines company,
will be heard and tried before jury.
This is one of the causes that probably
grew out of the famous Blue Ridge
suit. 1t is alleged that in making the
locations of the Tom Reed and Ben
Harrison mines the, original locators
erred in taking in too much ground,
and from the manner of the location
strip of ground was left vacant between
the two claims. All the work done by
the company was expended on one of
the claims, and as they we're not con-
tiguous the other claim lapsed and
Fellows located it. One of the other
claims of the group was relocated on
the ground that no discovery was ever
made on it. All these things will be
threshed out at this term of the court,
unless a compromise is effected, which
is not considered at this time.
Tom Drennon, general manager of
the Parker Mercantile Company. has
been in Kingman the past several days |
looking after business matters. He
reports that Parker is ON the eve of a
boom and that when the lands in the
town have been allotted by the govern
ment much building will be done.
The new railroad is almost completed
to Cadiz and regular trains will be