The Parker post., 1913-01-04
LOCAL NEWS

Nicely furnished house, close in,
for rent. R. G. Saufley.
Mrs B. G. Bartle of Inglewood lis
here visiting her daughter, Mrs. G.
A. Marsh
e. t. Ferguson representing the
Standard Oil company, was in town
Friday calling ON the trade.
Houses for Rent, Furnished and
! Unfinished.
G. A. MARSH COMPANY.
here to spend the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. E. r. Hart, having
arrived last Sunday.
DR.. Vermilyea of Redlands was in
town last Sunday to attend to bust
ness connected with his mining in
terests in the Copper Basin district
An epidemic of colds has been 60
ing the rounds for the past ten
days, but so far as known there have
been no serious cases among those
afflicted
| Mr. and Mrs c. f. Mozart left
| for their homestead i'm the Cibola val
ley last Saturday morning Will Clay
*ton drove them down, returning home
yesterday.
G. c. Dunn and r. G. Saufley spent
several days in the Copper Basin dis
trict the past week They were we'll
pleased with the showings develop
ed there on the various properties.
Harry Osborne and wife left for
Harrisburg last Saturday, where the
former will look after the annual as
sessment work ON some claims own
ed by himself and father, e. S.
| Osborne.
II. German and wife of Hallock,
Cal, arrived here last week and are
now at the Hardwick & German min
ing property in the Whipple noun
tains, where the annual assessment
work lis in progress.
S. Arms of MERGED, Calf, arrived
here last week with carload of
goods and has opened up for bust.
ness in the DERRICK building. His
line consists of Photographs, musical
Instruments, bicycles. etc
A
day afternoon and attracted quite
a number who took this means of
getting their New Years bird About
a dozen birds were awarded the vari-
Gus parties who entered the contest.
w. H. Tharpe of Prescott spent
| Saturday in town. Mr. Tharpe con-
templates becoming identified with
! Parker in a business way as soon
as something definite is known re-
garding the date of opening the re-
| servation.
Richard c. Cunning, who has been
visiting with his son, Will Cunning,
returned to his home in San Diego
| Thursday night. Mr. Cunning is
favorably impressed with the Parker
country and contemplates making
another trip here at an early date.
E. A. Green and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Randall Henderson and r. Houx
stakeholder in the New La Paz
Mining company, were visitors here
Sunday night and Monday, the party
making the trip from Blythe through
the reservation in one of Mr. Green s
autos.
Very little locating was done on
the night of December 81 in the dis
tricts surrounding Parker While
there were a number of parties look
ing after various claims there was
no particular scramble evident. in
dicating that most of the assessment
work was attended to or was being
| looked after by the original owners
| A. B. Hardwick was down from
Swansea Monday and made a trip to
his mining property in the Whipple
mountains the same day. Mr. Hard
wick reports that everything is run
ming smoothly at the big copper
camp. The reverberatOry is fast
nearing completion and will probab-
ly be blown in within the next thirty
days.
ID. e. Blake of New York is in
Parker and. will leave Saturday to
property located about twenty-five
examine the Hughes & Mcdowell
miles north of here, on the Colorado
river. Mr. Blake states that there
are few mining districts in the west
that is being commented on more
favorably by mining men than the
Parker district