Mohave County miner., 1913-03-22

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 being boss of the paint gang on the
 Santa Fe.
 The past few days have been quite
 windy. owing to the heavy storms Tn
 the north, this part of the country
 coming into the vortex of the storms
 north and south.
 Bisbee and Phenix have several
 cases of infantile paralysis, or what
 the doctors are terming cerebro- spinal meningitis. Two deaths have
 resulted in Bisbee and all public places have been closed.
 George w. Miller, who is here from Lookout ranch, in the eastern part of the county, reports that the recent cold weather has completely killed the buds and blossoms on the apricot trees, but that some of the peach trees have not been badly damaged.
 Charles F. Sherman, who has min ing property at Mineral Park and Chloride, is in town. coming here to visit with his family. He reports much activity in the mines at the Park and throughout that section of the Wallapai mining district.
 c. E. Walker, the well known Denver architect, whose plans for the Mohave county courthouse was recent ly adopted by the board of supervisors, has gone to his home for the purpose of completing the plans and specih- cations for the building. He will have the working plans ready about the first of May.
 J. Emmett Walsh, a well lawyer of Goldfeld, Nevada, and formerly Dis. lrict Attorney of Esmeralda county, Is visitor in kingman, coming here in the interest of the Goldield lodge of Elks, of which he Is the exalted ruler. The subject of jurisdiction of the two lodges was the cause of the visit and the matter was adjudged to the complete satisfaction ofthe visitor
 A large tonnage of the ores from the Old Bagdad mine, over on the desert, is passing through. Kingman daily, consigned to the shelter at Jerome. There is thousands of tons of like grade ore in this county that could be treated at the Jerome smelt- CT at profit, the gangue being a Aux to the ores of the United Verde.
 The Elks new club rooms have been and the furnishings are ex- pected within the next ten days. The place is to be one of the most com. modious in the state and the boys are looking forward to the house warm- ing that is to be given when the new quarters have been opened. The lodge rooms have also been greatly and by the first of May the boys will be ready to receive guests in lliCll uC" lCl HC lOuH6 Has also been increasing It's membership, there being a class of nearly fifty in waiting for the degree of the order.
 Mohave county is getting its back up over the failure of the State En- gineer to keep his word with the board of supervisors in the matter of sur veying out the state road, so that work could be commenced and the money belonging to the county in the hands of the state treasurer put to some use. It was understood that the State Engineer would come to Mohave county at once and map out the work, and it is also understood that the State Engineer gave the supervisors to that his office was ready at all times to perform this service. Since that time no amount of coaxlng can bring this state official into this It looks to us as though northern Arizona counties were get ting the worst of It from the state of fcers. and especially the office of State Engineer If the engineering office of the state is ready and willing, as it ex- pressed itself, to get work going all over the state in the matter of good roads, it looks to us that it is about time that something was stirring in this neck of the woods Mohave