Mohave County miner., 1911-01-07

holiday.
 c. w. Herndon was called to Need les this week to attend to a case in the court of that city.
 RE. Zuver, of Gold Road, has been in Kingman several days this week attending to important business mat ter.
 Miss Gertie Potts spent a week at Needles visiting her sister, Miss Frankie, returning home last Thurs day.
 Hoffman and Alger are getting their building in shape for removal of the bowling alley from the Happy Hour theater.
 Bert Fouche and wife have gone to Los Angeles, where they will visit for few weeks, contemplating settling in one of the Southern California towns.
 H. Nj. Bowen, who is operating the Bellefower mines departed to Los Angeles yesterday evening, having been called to the city to attend an important meeting of his company.
 F. A. Fletcher, who is superintend- ing work on the Goldback mines, at Chloride, returned a few days ago from Prescott, where he has been visiting.
 A large number of teams are coming here from Nevada, Phenix and the Prescott country to go into hauling from the various mines in Wallapai district to the railroad.
 The thermometer went down to twenty degrees above zero one night last week. Since that time the tenn perature has gradually risen and the promise of better weather is given by the long range forecasters.
 George A. Bonelli has begun the construction of a stone addition to his store building on Fourth street, having recently purchased necessary ground from Gaddis & Perry Company.
 The MINER office is this week get ting out the supplies for the forth coming election. Under a ruling of Gov. Sloan there will be no further registration, only those on the great register at the recent election being eligible voters.
 A force of Western Union linemen are working this way from the east stringing a new copper wire for that company. This makes nine wires the company is carrying on it's poles through the desert. The men are now near Nelson and are coming along rapidly.
 Voters of Mohave have been deluged with copies of the constitution for the proposed state of Arizona. The gen. eral comment so far heard has been favorable and it would appear that the voters of this county will give large affirmative vote on the 9th of next month.
 The Mining & Scientific Press has published a story by J. c. Kennedy, which purports to tell of the finding of the famous Gold Road mine, in this county. It is very good, as far as a story goes, but unfortunately lacks the element of truth. The fellow who wrote the story must have had a hop dream in which his ''story" was fram- ed up.
 A. F. Harris this week purchased the City Meat Market from Grounds S5 Crozier and will hereafter conduct it on his own account. MT. Harris has been a resident of this county the past twenty-five years and has been identi- fled with the cattle raising industry during all that time. He has a host of friends in this county that will wish him all manner of good luck in his new field.
 It is quite probable that the branch railroad will soon be built from the main line of the road near Chloride station to the Tennessee mine. Just as soon as the tonnage is assured the Western Railway will begin the construction of the new piece of road. The company has also made a survey of line north from McConnico, which is designed to cut out the heavy grade coming in from Union.