Mohave County miner., 1910-07-09
John St. Charles, of Chloride, spent some days in Kingman this week.

Sandy to celebrate the Fourth Of July in the shady groves and among the fertile fields, and incidentally to have a melon feast The Sandy folk have more 10 offer in the way of inducements to visitors than fire water and drilling matches, base ball games and picture shows. and they give of their best with a hearty hospitality that doubles its value. We have no details at hand as to the program of sports, but feel sure that a good time was had and that all outsiders were treated like home folk.
 The Kingmanites who spent the 4th at Goldroad most enthusiastically praise the citizens of our neighboring burg for the hospitable treatment and kindness extended to the visitors. They say Goldroad certainly showed us a good time" Their courtesy went so far as to cause them to allow our boys to win the base ball match and permit Oatman to carry of the prize for drilling. This may not have been due to Goldroad good nature entirely, however, as the Kingman boys put up a very good game of ball, the score being Kingman 1 to GoldrOad O. In the drilling contest there were three teams entered, two Goldroad teams and one from Oatman. Oatman won with a hole driven to depth of 45 l-2 in the fifteen minutes allowed each team. Much to our regret this ac- count of the celebration cannot be closed right here so that the hard won glory might have remained with Kingman, but truth land the fact that it is known to others) impels us to state that Oatman put it over our boys in the second ball game to the tune of to O, so that, as one high authority in base ball circles told the reporter, 'We got no mouey, but a good ex- cuse." Everyone had a good time. Foot races, and a championship tennis game were features of the days sports and we regret our inability to an- nounce the names of the winners of the several contests owing to the fact that telegraphic news bureaus were unable to get a message over any line because of the prize fight news having right of way over all other business.
 D. Nj. Martin, of the Cotton Land and Development Company, spent a couple of days in Kingman this week, and while here talked with members of the Board of Supervisors in regard to the adoption of some plan for the leasing, by his company, of all school land lying in the Mohave Valley. No f definite contract was entered into by the Board at this time. but it is under stood that some arrangement may be made later on. Mir. Martin expressed | himself as being confident now by the successful outcome of the irrigation project in the Mohave Valley, tC which he has given such unremitting effort for several years past, though sometimes the outlook was most dis couraging. He says that his company has now about twelve miles of cana work completed, and are adding tC that length at the rate of from l20O tC ] 1900 feet per day. The high water during the month of June just past diC not effect the flow of water, or inter fere with the successful handling ot the water at the intake of the canal
 and the quantity of water needed wa: perfectly regulated and under absolute control at all times during the higt water. Mir. Martin says the question of getting the water from the river into the canal at all stages of the riv
 CTS flow is now settled beyond any
 possibility of doubt. The prediction often made by many that water cOulC not be taken in the canal past certain
 low lying portions of the valley with
 out flooding such portions is proven tC
 be without foundation. The water does not percolaUe through the soil tC these lands in the least. and many spots have been high and dry thii
 year which heretofore have alway'
 been covered with the overflow water'
 from the Colorado. Many settlers art already starting splendid farms along the Mohave valley and more are com
 ing. The great good that will resul
 to Mohave county within the next few years can hardly be estimated, but VI predict a great farming settlemen
 along the river in the near future.
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