Mohave County miner., 1912-05-25

Si0SS iuaii.
 Miss Murla Metcalfe is visiting her father, Charles Metcalfe, in Kingman.
 Miss Altha Perry has returned from Berkeley. where she has been attend, ing school.
 Geo. A. Bonelli, who has been out on the roundup the past six weeks, returned home Thursday.
 Mrs. M. E. Cohenour and the Misses Sawyer spent Sunday last with Miss Nina Uncapher at Mineral Park.
 Miss Minnie Tarr, telegraph oper- ator in New Mexico, visited with her sister, Mrs. Geo. A. Bonelli, this week.
 Several leases have been let on the Samoan mines, at Chloride, by the Chloride Gold mines company. The property is capable of producing con- siderable good ore from the old stopes and the leasers should make big wages
 John Boyle, jr., accompanied by Miss Lena Fast are in Kingman, having come over from the Golconda on busi- ness. It is understood that Mir. Boyle and family will soon remove to town, and will manage the mining property from this end of the line.
 Davis Garrett is in Gold Basin, where he has group of excellent mines, upon which he has been doing development work the past several years. The veins are well defined and carry good values in gold. MT. Gar. ret is one of the old time miners of that section.
 Harry T. Hughes, of Orange, Gal, ifornia, representing the big smelting company, at Swansea, is looking over this county in the interest of the shelter and is preparing to make con- tracts for copper and other ores carry a high percentage of silica. He says the company has been reorganized and will have ample capital to carry on the work of getting the big plant on its feet. The plant is to be taken over about the 18th of this month.
 w. F. Botsford, one of the best known of the Los Angeles bankers, died at his home in that city last Wednesday. He had been ill the past two months. but it was not thought that the eno was so near. Mir. Bots- ford at one time was the principal shareholder in the Tennessee mine, at Chloride, and held practically all of the stock when that property passed into the hands of the Needles Mining x Smelling company. He was also president of one of the short line roads in the north part of the state of Cal. ifornia and held lands worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until few years ago he was the president of the American National bank of Los Angeles, failing health compelling him to relinquish that position. Many people of this county were we'll ac. quainted with him.
 Will Carr came up from Copperville a few days ago to visit with his family He reports that there are now thirty five men at work in the mines and al the mill of the Arizona Southwestern Copper company and this force vii probably be added to within the nex month. The milling machinery is be ing assembled at the mine and many betterments are being mapped out The work of opening the big ore bodies is being carried on as rapidly as pos sible and it is expected that by tn, time the mill Is ready to go int, commission there will be big stopes O ore ready for extraction and man, thousands of tons of the ore on tn, dumps and in the mill bins. Every thing is now being carried along witt rush and the management will tr to have the mill in operation within the next ninety days. The manage ment of the property is in the hands o l.. Hoffman.