Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30

l anu ulOFGu IN lulS WEEK.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Kolar arrived
in Kingman this week from Texas and
expect to make this their future home
Mrs. Kolar is sister of Mrs. NJ
Flood.
The Kingman circulating library
has been removed from the home of
George T. Warren TO The Office of the
MINER, where any person desiring any
of the books are at liberty to come and
get them.
Last Saturday evening James F. Nc
Cornell brought in from Gold Road
mill another of those weekly bars of
Illion. The bar was quite large,
above the usual weekly cleanup.
A big auto load of supplies was sent
out from Kingman this morning 10 the
Arizona Southwestern Copper Com
pany's mines, at Copperville. The
auto is able TO make the trip through
to the mines from Kingman, the new
road being passable by the big ma
chine.
The water encountered in the well
between Berry and Wallapai station
IS said to have raised more than one
hundred feet. standing at depth of
eighty feet. The we'll was sunk $50
feet and the men doing the work re-
port that the flow is very strong, with
indications of artesian origin.
Don Craig, one of the old time
miners of the county. died at Goldroad
last week. Mr.. Craig was one of the
first men in White Hills and had many
friends throughout the mining regions
of the territory. He was a whole !
souled fellow and his death will he
greatly regretted by those who knew
him we'll.
A number of Kingman people are to
again form a company with the object
of boring a deep we'll in Wallapai val
ley to test the artesian possibility of
that section. 4 deep well rig will lie
brought here from California after the
first of the year and will be set up on
the rim of the valley north of King
man. Mr.. Gates one of the best drill
lers in the country, will have charge
of the work.
II ha haf
apai siding, on the Santa Fe railroad,
sixteen miles east of Kingman, n good
supply of water has been found and
the promoters of the irrigation scheme
at that place are preparing to sink
well to test the artesian possibilities of
that part of the valley. Quite a num-
Der of families are now there to take !
up land as soon as the surveys of the !
valley have been accepted by the de- |
partment and the lands opened for |
settlement. The people are of the op- |
inion that these lands will be among |
the richest lands of the territory.
The Santa Fe railroad has set aside |
S0,OO0S for the purpose of building a
concrete projection along the Colorado |
river from the smelter to point some |
distance below the ice plant. the con-
crete will be poured along the face of
the embankment and will break the
force of the boring in of the river cur
rent during high water. 1t is the gen.
eral belief that if something is not soon
done the vater will have washed out |
the lands between the present river /.
bank and the railroad shops. The fact
that the embankment along the river |
on the Arizona sloe will have a tend |
ency to raise the height of the river |
during the flood is cogent reason for |
the protection of the California banks |
of the river.
George A. Colbourne, aged about so |
years, died last Saturday morning at
the county hospital, death being due |
to an attack of bronchitis. Deceased |
has been a resident of the county more
than twenty years, having mined in
many of the camps. Owing to poor
health and failing sight he became an
inmate of the local hospital, where he |
remained many years. He was
gentle, good natured old fellow and |
had a host of friends in the town. |
Among his effects was a letter from a
woman that he had treasured for more |
than half century, the date on the
letter being from a town in Iowa in
1854, showing that there had been
romance in the life of this man that