Mohave County miner., 1910-03-19


 tional Bank, spent several days this week in Kingman getting plans in shape for the introduction of a new ! banking house into the town. It is understood that the people having the matter in charge expect to erect a bank building costing 2O,OOOS, and the bank to have paid in capital of 5O,- 0O0S. The parties interested in the enterprise expect to be in Kingman to- day to make final arrangements for the incorporation of the bank.
 The sheepmen are being hard hit by the lack of feed throughout the northern range, although some weeds are beginning to show up in the warm CT parts of the county. With a good rain and few days of warm sunshine conditions would change as if by magic. Weeds in this county spring up within ten days, and unless there is an abundance of rain, they will be- come sere and yellow within two weeks, but that short time would put the sheep in shape to weather through until the grasses began to spring up.
 The gentlemen owning motor cars are using every effort to get the roads in shape for motoring. In the effort for good roads the gentlemen should have the united support of every man in the county. as it is good roads that will do more to bring prosperity than almost any other public improvement. Let the county dads do their share of roadbuilding and the people will be found back of them with good sized donations to help out the fund. Every road that is rebuilt or laid out should be under the direction of a civil en- gineer and one that has had a large amount of experience in the building of roads. Now is the time to have roads built along scientific principles and when it is once built it will stay in place for years.
 L. Hoffman has been looking over the agricultural, horticultural aud vit- icultural possibilities of the Big Sandy country. He reports that there are about 20, 1000 acres of mesa lands avail able for fruit culture along the valley of the Sandy and that these lands are rich in all that makes for the best fruit lands of the world. The lands are so situated that they can be brought under irrigating canals from the Knight creek and Trout creek dams, where the waters of these streams can be conserved by a small amount of work. In connection with the irrigation of the valley lands, Mir. Hoffman believes that a railroad should be built to a connection with that of the Swansea and on to Kingman. where it would become a feeder of the main line of the Santa Fe. The rail road would make the reclamation of these lands possible, and would bring a big revenue to the railroad company from the one source alone. Besides the agricultural and other possibilities of the section, there is large mining section that would be brought to the fore by a railroad. Along the east side of the Wallapai range are some of the richest mines in the county, which lack of railroad facilities at present make impossible Jo work. Many of these mines are capable of large ton mage of ore at the present time and the others could be brought to the producing stage by small amount of work. Other interests would add to the tonnage of a railroad and at once make it a paying institution.
 G. A. Hubbell, a special representa- tive of Pullman, the new town site at | Pt. Richmond, the recent location of | the Pullman Palace Car Works, San Francisco Bay, is here in Kingman to remain for few days at Hotel Bruns- wick.