Mohave County miner., 1911-07-01

sociation. He returned Thursda,
 evening and reports having had al
 excellent time.
 Mrs. w. J. Connor and children, O
 Barnwell, passed through Kingmar
 Thursday last to Flagstaff, wher,
 they will spend part of che hot months
 Mrs. Connor and husband were fol
 twenty years residents of Yucca
 where Mr. Connor was Santa F. agent.
 While the footings n the original
 assessment roll have not yet been
 made it is understood that there will
 be an increase in the assessment oi the county of more than 40O,000S for the year and that this county will pass into a higher class than last year.
 The board of supervisors meet to- day as board of equalization to ac cept the original assessment roll from the assessor. Monday the board will meet to settle the monthly bills and transact all necessary business, fol- lowing which the regular meetings of the board of equalization will be held during the month.
 The Mohave county poor farm, un- der the management of Mrs. w. F. Ferguson, is a model place and the garden is being made to furnish all the green stuff that the inmates of the place can use and then have much to sell. By the extension of the garden and setting out fruit trees the place might be made self sustaining.
 Frank, Melvin and Jerome Carrow have organized the Northern Arizona Auto Transportation company. The boys have three automobiles that are intended for operation between King man, Gold Road, Oatman and Needles and other camps contiguous to King man. The new company is capitalized at 5O,OOOs.
 The first filing on lands in Sacramen- to valley under the enlarged desert and homestead act was made this week by Benjamin Mossman and Clarence Johnson, who covered 320 acres each by declaratory hling in the Phenix land office. The land covered by the filing is in one of the townships re- gently surveyed to allow of the pat enting of the odd numbered sections by the old St. Louis x San Francisco railroad company, holding these lands in reserve from the transfer made years ago to the old Atlantic & Pacific railroad.
 An old prospector named Jasper Gashan was picked up on the wagon road Wednesday morning last by a teamster of the LOvin x Withers com pany named Coffee and brought to town. When found by Mir. Coffee the man was almost completely exhausted and but for his timely aid would un- dUubtedly have perished. He had been without food and water for five days and was so weak that he could not stand. Coffee gave him water in limited quantity and as soon as he ar rived in Kingman the poor fellow was taken to the hospital, where he is get ting along nicely.
 The first test we'll is now being sunk in Wallapai valley by s. D. Richards 1n his 320 acres ID Kingman township. | The well has reached a depth of about seventy feet and it is expected that the first water will be encountered at a depth of less than loo feet. The we'll is being sunk on the high ground above the Stockton Hill road and south of the old Prescott stage road. As wa ter is to be had at many points along the volcanic hills, especially on the west side, it is more than probable that at no great depth in the lava How a large supply of water will be tapped.
 One of the greatest gatherings of Indians in the history of northern Arizona will be in Kingman during the celebration of the Fourth | of July. Supais, Wallapa's, Apache | Chemehuevis and Mohayes | are coming in large numbers. A tele- gram to the committee from Nelson | this morning stated that a large band | of Supais arrived there and would be | here tomorrow. Another band reach |