Mohave County miner., 1915-01-23
Local Brevities.

Local BrevitieS.
 Miss Alice Smith is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Jesse Hulet, in Holbrook.
 Dr. Antone, of Los Angeles, is visit ing with Dr. w. H. Butcher, in King man.
 Mrs. Cleve Walker, of Blackberry, is visiting with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Walter Casteel, in Kingman.
 Will Klein, who was taken to Los Angeles last week, is in the California hospital, where he is fast recovering from recent operation.
 Mrs. E. F. Thompson has gone to Phenix to attend the session of the State Federation of Womens' Clubs, as the representative of the local branch.
 John Barry is putting on an auto stage line between Kingman and the Golconda mine, which will be found of great convenience to the people travel ing that way, and especially to the merchants of Kingman.
 John Furrer, who at one time resided with his family in Kingman, and who removed to Utah two years ago, is re- ported to have died at his home in that state last week. MT. Furrer came here in search of health about six years ago. He was bright fellow and made many friends here.
 The automobile stage owners of Oat- man have fight on over the passenger traffic between that place and Needles. One offers to carry passengers to Needles and return for one dollar and the other makes the same offer with the added inducement of a good meal at each end of the route. In these days of high cost of living it would pay a man to patronize the stage line to get those two meals for the dollar.
 MT. and Mrs. w. A. Neal and sons, of the Big Sandy, were in Kingman a few days ago. MT. Neal exhibited specimens of ore from find on the Mohave-Yavapai county line that is said to carry large percentage of potassium sulphide. We are not aware of the value of the material, but from it could be manufactured any of the potassiums, especially potassium cya- hide. The deposit is immense and if it l can be manufactured into the caustic material it would have considerable | value. The find is in an accessible locality.
 Isn't it about time to take some ac- tion in the way of preparing for the erection of Union High school in Kingman. An issue of bonds is neces- sary and it will take considerable time to get the proposition up to the people . and then the sale will also consume i time. Now is the time, as the cdurt- house will soon be completed and the workers will have to turn their atten- tion to some other labor. Let the trustees of the school get at the work as soon as possible, and in combination with the local public school we ought to have one of the best school buildings in the state.
 For the first time the MINER editor rode over the Oatman-Topock road and across the bridge and on to Needles. | To our view this road could be greatly improved by putting in some bridging and cutting the distance. From To- pock to Yucca there is considerable lack of engineering ability, the road winding through the canyons, where a small amount af cutting through narrow hills would give good hard surface to the road and cut out heavy and deep sand in the Sacramento wash. It would look as though the engineer took de- light in bringing the road high up on the mesa to have the pleasure of going down again. By putting an engineer on the job this road could be bettered from 50 to 100 per cent and the distance could be cut several miles. In driving over the two roads, that from Oatman to Topock and from Yucca to Topock, there is little choice With a Ford ear