Mohave County miner., 1913-01-18

kee" dollar watch from the originator of the famous watch himself-Robert H. ngersoll-with his best wishes for a happy New Y,ar. Mr, and Mrs IT, gersoll had planned to spend the sum- mer in Arizona and the winter in Cal ifornia, but the illness of Mrs. Inger- soil prevented the summer vacation here and now later illness has de- ferred the writer trip to California. It is to be hoped that they may yet visit this section of Arizona. and they will find that the perfect atmosphere will do wonders in restoring to health the ailing ones.
 Needles good roads boosters have ar. ranged for d trip by auto to San Ber- nardino, leaving Needles on the 20th and arriving in hat city on the follow ing day. It is possible that they may defer the trip to combine it with the pnrposed excursion of the Northern Arizona boosters to the same city later in the month. Kingman has prepared an invitation to all the Northern Ari- zona counties to meet in Kingman on the latter part of January and go on to San Bernardino to meet with the good roads boosters of that city on the 30th of January. If this arrangement can be carried out it is thought that more than fifty people will make the trip from this state.
 w. E. Dunlap, who has charge of the White Elephant property, at Ger bat. is in Kingman, a guest of the Brunswick. He reports that stoping on the POD is under way and that ship ments to the shelter will be made as soon as teams for haulage can be se- cured. The mine is capable of turn ing out a large tonnage of ore of a very high grade. Samples from this ore show heavy veins of native silver running through the mass, besides carrying a high percentage of lead The company IS also to take up a min ing property at Mineral Park, work to be commenced on it at once.
 Mrs. Esther Starkey and son have purchased the cattle and ranch of J. w. Thompson, at Coaro Springs, the deal having been completed yesterdar. Mr. Thompson resided at that place the past thirty years and has grown rich from his cattle and real estate investments in this county, and can with competence. Mrs. Starkey re- gently sold her Grass Springs range to T. P. Duncan, but found it impossi- ble to break away from the lure of the range.
 If Dell Potter would use the sun, amount of energy in reclaiming the great American desert from it's con dition of desolation he would be doing far greater work for southern Arizona, California and New Mexico than attempting to build an ocean to ocean highway through the sand dunes. Dell might move the pyramids and set them in the center of the American Sahara to give that section some attractive feature. But once an tries to pass over his high way it is sure to go that way but once
 Indian Russell who cut a Mexican with a knife, at Blackberry, last week Friday, was brought up from the Big Sandy Wednesday last by deputy sheriff John Brown and lodged in iall. It appears that the row was over the sale of whisky to the Indian by the Mexican and it was the opinion of the officers that fine would meet the re- quirements of the case and Russell is now out digging up fifty dollars. with the alternative of fifty days in jail.
 Charles (Boots) Hanson, who recent ly went to Illinois on visit to rela- tives, writes to John Mulligan that he is married and living in Morris, III. Hanson is we'll known to the boys at all the camps in Wallapai district. as well as in Weaver and at White Hills, but they will hardly credit the state- ment that the old fellow is among the benedicts.
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