Mohave County miner., 1912-09-07

D. E. Nelson and family are home agaln from the coast, where they en joyed few months at the seashore.
 H. H. Watkins is home again from z months hunting trip in Northern Cal ifornia. He reports having had most enjoyable time.
 J. H. Knight and w. K. Ridenour, of the Arizona Stores Company, have returned from a visit to the seashore where they disported themselves ir the briney the past several weeks.
 T. k. Pollock, the Flagstaff banker, E. F. Thom pson, O. D. M. Gaddis and k. S. Clark went out to Todd Basin a few days ago to look at mining prop. erty in which they are interested.
 The Misses Eva and Irene Harris and Bessie Mulligan departed last Sat. urday evening to Prescott, where they will become students at the Sisters school at that place.
 J. E. Perry and wife returned from Los Angeles last Monday, their daugh. ter, Miss Altha, going to the Univer. sity of Southern California, where she will attend school the forthcoming semester.
 Miss Hettie Klein, who has been visiting at the coast the past month, is home again, and this week was sworn in as official reporter of the Superior Court, Judge Krook having made the appointment some tune ago. Miss Klein passed an excellent examination for the position month or so ago.
 A. F. Harris was called to Sawtelle this week for conference with the authorities on account of condemnation proceedings instituted against property that he owns in that city. The prop erty is needed for public building pur- poses and it is probable that amicable arrang. inents will be made for it's sale to .e municipality.
 Last week Friday Dan Bacon came near losing his team and his life in trying to cross under the bridge at Blackberry in the face of torrent of water that suddenly came down the big wash at that place. He had only time to cut the traces and let the team struggle to the shore, while he was caught in the swlrl of water and had hard time getting to dry land.
 Rev. c. w. Deming, assisted by Rev. Fred Ross, of Jerome, have been conducting revival services in Kingman the past week, holding services on the street a; 5:3O and in the church every evening. They are good takers and the services have been quite we'll at. tended Rev. Ross will speak in the church tomorrow at 1l:30 and at 500 p. m. All are cordially invited.
 John Lynch and wife are visiting with relatives in Kingman. Mr. Lynch has been working on a new method for the reduction of copper ores the past two years, having a large plant at Red lands, where he has handled several hundred tons of ores from the Ray properties. It is expected that this new method will practically revolu. tionize copper reduction and make pos. sible the handling of the extremely low grades of ores.
 Jack Simpson was in town this week from his potato ranch on Wallapa mountains. He reports that the crop has not yet matured, but that some of the spuds are quite large. He ex. poets to harvest about 800 bushels for market and will keep enough to plant a greater acreage next spring. Mir. Simpson also has set out several hun dred fruit trees, apple, peach and pear and these are doing nicely. Out of all the trees planted he lost but three. The ranch is in the high plateau of the mountain and ideally situated con- tiguous to the pine forest.