Mohave County miner., 1913-10-18

George B. Ayers cane in from Gold | Road this morning with the weekly | bar of bullion from the c id Road | mill. The bar weigaed sligljly over 2o,O0O$.
 w. F. Jaggers and wife stopped over in kingman last Saturday and Sunday, the guests of Allen E. Ware. Mr. l .Jaggers was al one time manager of the Lovin x Wilhers Co. Several architects have been looking over the ground this week to get a line on plans for the new courthouse and Monday next will submit sketch plans to the board of superv ,nls. It is the belief that some excellent plans will be forthcoming.
 Henry Miller and family and E G. Hoffman and family, of Kansas, are in Kingman visiting with Leonard Hoffman aud family. Mr. H ,tfman is cousin of the Hoffman brothers. and Mr. Miller is brother of Mr., Leonard Hoffman. It is probable Mr. Hof- man will locate here.
 Ed Whipple, a we'll known carpen- ter and contractor of Flagstaff, is in Kingman looking inro the possibility of the Mohave county courthouse. Mr. Whipple was resident of kingman before the county seat was removed from Mineral Park. later going to Flagstaff, in which place he has re- sided ever since.
 This week the board of supervis ors opened blds for the sale of Mohave county bonds and were agreeably sur prlsed to receive four bids of par and accrued interest. one proposing a premium of 200S It is probable that this latter bid will be accepted One bidder offered to perform l0o.000$ worth of road work, taking the bonds in payment and guaranteeing the work to be worth the expenditure, but the board preferred to do it's own road work when and where it is fonnd necessary. and could not think of being handicapped by a contract of this character. With the sale of these bonds it is made possible to do the work that the people of the county purposed when the bonds were good roads and the money realized from the sale of these bonds will 90 far to make good roads in many parts of the county. and at the same time provide an east and west road across the county.
 Howell Jones, land commissioner of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad, was a Kingman visitor this week and met with number of Kingman people who were anxious to get a line or what the railroad company was going to do with it's land in the Wallapa valley. Mr. Jones disclaimed any in tention on the part of the railroad company to include mineral lands ir their application for patent to the grant lands of the company. but tha in the amended application lands tha might bring conflict were excluded The excluded lands cover the ode sections in the Chloride country. upor which mineral has been discovered It is to be expected that practcall, all the lands embracing the Wallapa mining district will have to be brough within the category of mineral land and that when the filing is finally ac cepted at the land office the peopl will be given an opportunity of pro testing. We do not believe that tn railroad would take mountain lands it could conveniently divest themselve of the d, especially when the land have no value other than the pos sibility of finding mineral on them but at the same time in this countr the people want to be assured tha mineral bearing lands cannot pas from the government on grant lam selections. In the matter of the Wal lapai valley lands, we were given t understand that no sales would b made unless there was positive as surance from the purchaser that
 reclamation would be made, either b bringing water upon the lands fror some water source or by the sinkin of deep well.
 Dr. Paul Mcintosh has returne from the camps and will be in Oatma
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