Mohave County miner., 1910-03-19

Clerk of the District Court were busily
 employed last Thursday forenoon
 drawing the grand and trial jurors for
 the April term ofcourt. The criminal
 calendar will be quite small, but the
 civil calendar will be large, as many
 of the cases went over from the last
 term.
 Next Friday night Mulford Winsor,
 Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of the
 B. P. O. Elks, will visit the Kingman
 lodge. Preparations are being made to receive him with all the ceremonies due his high office and at the meeting in the evening two candidates will be shown the mysteries of initiation, after which a banquet will be spread in the lodge banquet hall.
 Dan $. Richards and Charles Met calfe have made the first homestead locations in the great Wallapai Val ley, taking up lands immediately north of Kingman, about two miles from town. Within five years this splendid tract of land will be covered with people securing homes. No one now in Kingman need fear of being left if they want farm, for there are several thousand locations available which will more than supply all de- mands.
 Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Ballard and children, accompanied by Mrs. Bal lard's aunt, M S. Howie, arr ived in Kingman Thursday last from Crozier's ranch, where they have been visiting the past month. After a visit with Mir. and Mrs. Anson H. Smith the family departed to San Francisco, where they will reside until Dr. Bal lard arranges his affairs in the north and takes up a permanent residence. Mrs. Ida Crozier accompanied the fam fly to Kingman. returning home the following day.
 Quite a numbur of patients are now in the county hospital. Last week there was thirteen in all and more are being added daily. The place is under the management of George Atmore and is kept in the best possible shape. Trees are being set out around the hospital ground and garden truck has been planted in the lower part of the ground. Before summer is over the place will present a most pleasing picture. Supervisor Potts is taking a great interest in the beautifying of the county farm and it will not be long until he has it one of the model farms of the southwest.
 Bridges along the line of the West ern Railway are being strengthened and it is understood that heavier steel will be laid for the purpose of running heavier engines over the line in antic- ipation of the big tonnage of ore that will soon be offered by the Needles Mining & Smelling company and the other large interests operating on the west side of the Cerbat range. At present the Golconda mine gives the little engine that is nov run over that division all the loads it can haul up the gaade below McConnico. With better motive power and daily trains the local railroad will become one of the best paying branches of the Santa Fe.
 The Santa Fe railroad company has made application to the war depart ment for the privilege of building another pier under the big bridge at Topock. Owing to the increasing weight of the engines used on the Santa Fe fears for the safety of the bridge have long been expressed and it was recently understood that en- gineers that examined the structure were of the opinion that it was not safe for the use of the great engines now pulling freight over that part of the road. The Colorado river has been condemned by the geological sur vey under the ruling of the interior as a navigable stream, but the war department has control of some of the matters appertaining to the navigation of streams and it is to this department that application was made by the Santa Fe for the privi- ledge of building a pier in the middle of the stream. The bridge is of canti- lever pattern and the main span is 66O feet. The bridge was put in commis- sion more than twenty years ago and at a time when the largest engine in use on the road would not weigh over