Mohave County miner., 1910-01-22

Ed. Lafave, a son of a. Lafave, well
known to- all the old timers of White
Hills, died at Clifton, the latter part
of last month.
Maurice joyce, one of the early time
miners of the Vivian section, died at
the Sisters Hospital, in Phenix, Thurs
day afternoon, of consumption. He
had been sent to Phenix a month or
two ago in the hope that the milder
climate of the Capital City would bene-
fit his health, but the dread white
plague had too strong a hold on his
system. Mr.. Joyce was we'll liked by
all that knew him and his death will
be mourned by wide circle of Mohave
county people.
Thursday evening Mrs. R. A. Robert
son received a wire from her brother
in-law, in Oakland, stating that Mr..
Robertson was dangerously ill and to
come at once. She departed to Oak
land on the first train. Mr.. Robertson
left here Tuesday morning and ar
rived at Oakland very i'll. 1t is
thought that diagnosis of his case
developed some dangerous symptom
and that an operation is necessary.
The many friends of the family in this
county hope that he will recover his
health speedily.
That northern Mohave and Coconino
counties are heavily timbered is evil
denced by the recent report of one OF
the government timber experts in his
summing up of the timber belts of the
Buckskin and Kaibab plateans. the
greater part of which is in this county.
The experts are now in the timber lay
ing out blocks of lands embracing the
pines suitable for timber and plating
it for use of the forest department.
Already bid for one hundred millions
of feet of this timber has been made
and should it be sold to the bidders a
railroad will at once be constructed
into the timber and on to the rim of
the canyon, one of the most picturesque
spots on the American continent.
George W. Brown, the octogenarian,
who was reported i'll last week, died
at Hotel Beale last Thursday after
noon. His funeral took place this
morning from the NJ. E. church. Mr..
Brown had been a resident of King
man the past year, coming here from
Oakland to promote a mining PROPOSE
ton in which he was very much inter
ested He claimed to have a secret
process for the extraction of the
metals from the ores, but what the
method was or whether it was appli-
cable to the ores of his mines is
unknown and the secret died witch
him. His wife was with him when
the end came.
Mr.. johnson, of Williams and Catar-
ract Canyon, was in Kingman the
past week looking into matters apper-
tanning to the generation of electric
power. He has a site in Cataract
Canyon, which he believes to be one
of the best and most available power
sites in the territory. The power will
be taken from one of the big waterfalls
of the canyon and his belief is that
thousands of horsepower can be gener-
ated from that source. As northern
Arizona needs cheap power we believe
haf hi nj in 81
canyon would solve the problem to a
considerable extent. The falls are
about two hundred feet and the volume
of water is large. A converging of
all the waters from the two falls would
give immense volume of power that
could be commercially distributed all
over northern Arizona.
Mrs. Charles A. Ballard, accompani-
ed by her two children and aunt Mrs
Howie, arrived Tuesday evening from
their home in Waukesha, Wis, to
visit with relatives and friends. Mrs.
Ballard will be best known to the old
timers of this county by her maiden
name of Mabel Steen. She was met
in Kingman by her aunt, Mrs. Ida
Crozier and other relatives, and de-
plrted Thursday to Crozier, where she
will visit for week or more. Mrs.
Ballard has many warm friends in this
part of Arizona and is always welcom-
ed here as a native daughter of Mohave
county, having been born at Mineral
Park in the early eighties. Her par
ents we're killed at Mineral Park in
the spring of 1884, by the undermining
of their house in the terrific storm
that swept over the country at that
time, she and a brother being the only
ones in the building to escape.