Mohave County miner., 1913-03-29

w. G. Grun'nger of Kingman, and J. w. Ward and A. B. Fancher, of the Sandy, have been summoned to serve as jurors in the U. $. Court at PheniX.
 Charles F. She'll superintendent of the Indian school. at Valentine, was a Kingman visitor this week, coming here to summon Indian witnesses to the trial of causes before the U. S. Court at Phoenix. next month.
 After calling the legal machinery of the county to Signal last week. two of the land owners of the lower Sandy have again mixed it and it is reported that one of the men took a shot at the other in miXup at that place this week. In the first instance Assistant County Attorney J. A. Ellis found that there was no cause for criminal action, and the matter requiring civil action to settle it, but the recent miXup is sure to bring the whole matter criminally before the court.
 Postmaster J. N. Cohenour returned from San Francisco the first of the week. having been called to that city as witness in case before the United States court. The cause was that of Sacramento doctor who used the mails for the purpose of attracting unfortunate women to the use of his medicines or to secure his aid in crimi- nal operations. Many of these vile beings have already plead guilty and have been given heavy sentences, while many more are to be tried.
 The office and boarding house of the Gold Road Mines company vas de- stroyed by fire Monday morning. The fire is thought to have caught from a defective tlue, the flames first being noticed in the roof of the building All the office furniture and practically all the boarding house furniture was saved. The building stood high on the side of the mountain and the hose company could not get at it readily. The loss will exceed one thousand dol. lars.
 Clarence Wilson and Hubert Smith have purchased another White truck and will soon have daily stage line between Kingman and the lower Sandy. The young men are running a twice week mail between the two places. but are unable to take care of the fast freighting between Klngman and the Sandy farms. With the other truck they expect to do the work and care for the passenger business. The Sandy is fast becoming an important agricultural country and Kingman will soon be supplied with all kinds of farm products from the irrigated ranches.
 Walter Harvey Weed, one of the best known copper geologists of the United States, and one of the best posted men on the geology of Arlzona' s copper deposits is enthusiastic over the great possibilities of this state from a mineral standpoint. It appears to be his belief that Arizona within a few years will produce at least fifty per cent of all the copper produced in the United States. At the present time Arizona is prod ucing thirty per cent of the production of this country and it would be but little stretch ot the imagination to bring her up to the limit. Mr. Weed IS of the opinion that the warfare Tn Mexico is driving away many of the large operators into Arizona, this being the most promis iny field for large investment.
 Tariff revision is to be the one and only thing with which the congress called to meet on the 1th of April will have to wrestle with, although other weighty matters may crawl in The metals are really the only subJect that interests the west, as free beef ol free wool will never again be an issue the SC commodities gaming sucf stre ngth that no importations iron foreign countries can possibly dislodgt the price makers. It is otherwise with tke base metals, which stand 1T such peculiar position, with the gov