Mohave County miner., 1912-08-10


 house for her father, Rev. c. w Deming at the parsonage.
 Bernard VOgt, owner Of a group o mining claims near the Minnesota. COnnor, at Chloride, wao Kingman visitor this week Mir. Vogt is also the local agent for this county of the Bliss Native Herbs company
 C. ". Davis accompanied by Dr. w. H. Butcher, visited the Clay Springs ranch of the Clay Springs Cattle com. pany, last Wednesday in Mr.. Davis car. Mr. Davis is one of the largest shareholders in the company, while w. F. Grounds is the manager of the ranch. The company is making large Improvements at the Clay Springs ranch. having fenced pasturage, de- yeloped the water holes and built great dams to empound flood waters for the use of their cattle.
 Immense piles of oak ties have been dumped alongside the Santa Fe rail road through Wallapai valley, which leads to the belief that doubletracking will be commenced there shortly. Oc ca,ionally grade point is made to enable the contractors to form some idea of the amount of dirt that will have to he moved to complete the grade at the various points. Long sidings are being put in at many points and later these will be con- nected up to make the new double track. The entire system is being worked up in this way, the congested points being first considered in the double tracking of the road
 A. N. Keech is breaking up big acreage of land north of Antares, about five miles from Hack berry The land has been cleared of buckhorn cactus and is deep and loamy soil, Mir. Keech expects to have more than one hundred acres ready for planting this fall. From indications there seems to be no reason why big crop of grain cannot be raised each year on these lands. A ditch has been dug from point to the west of the ranch for the purpose of diverting the flood waters into large concrete reservoir, and Mir. Keech informed us that he could have filled this tank more than six times since it was built couple of months ago. The water caught and empounded this way will be used to help out in the irrigation of the gar den. but the grain fields will be ma tureo by dry farming.
 John Hamilton, who represented Kingman lodge of Elks at the grand lode, in Portland, is home again and reports having had the greatest time of his life. The Elks of Portland were voted the greatest entertainers on C'r'h and even Los Angeles boosters Mrre cumpeiied to acKnOwledge that even they had been ouldone. aud it is going some when Los Angeles boost CT will admit that there are other people and things outside of Los Angeles. The local lodge provided boating and automobillng into the interior for the guests and the trip up the Willamette river was a revelation to everybody. At this time of the year that part of the United States is at lts best and the fruit and flowers re. vealed to the people what energy had builded for the good people of the Progressive state.
 The railroad company has it's heavy drilling machinery on the ground, near the Kingman depot and will soon begin spudding in it's new we'll. It is understood that the bore will be carrled down over 600 feet. with the exception that when the primary formation is encountered flow may be secured. The well will be cased to hold the water from getting away in the flow sheets when the water raises in the we'll. The company has plenty of water in the old we'll, but in the event that something occur to the ma chinery the company would be with out water, serious thing to consider at this point. Some years ago the