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Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03

F.. O. Elliott, of Oatman, is report ed at the point of death having been unconscious for several days. This morning his daughter, Mrs. South made, of St. Louis arrived in King man and was taken to Oatman at once by E. J. Laferierre.
 Billy Clack received a telegram from Charles Lynch who is at the Democratic Convention stating that they wanted him (Lynch) to run for president but that he didn't like to do it until he knew what the people here thought about it.
 A. F. Harris and family are about to return to Mohave County, having disposed of their ranch in California. It is hard to break an Arizonan's de- sire for the blue hills and the wonder ful climate to which he has grown us- ed to. The many friends of the fam fly will surely welcome them back again.
 J. P. Gideon, who has been in Los Angeles and San Bernardino with Mrs Gideon the past ten days, arrived home Wednesday evening last. He reports that Mrs. Johndrew, sis ter of Mrs. Gideon is quite i'll and had to submit to an operation, which is expected to relieve her situation. Mrs. Johndrew is quite we'll known in Kingman and Prescott. having lived in both places many years prior to the death of her husband.
 c. B. Bell has just returned from a trip that took in the oil country of Texas and the northern part of Mex ico. In the latter country he has inn portant mining interests. He reports that the Texas country is experience ing wonderful wave of prosperity and that with return to sanity in Mexico there will also be something big doing in a mining way. MT. Bell is the general manager of the High land Mining company, owner of the largest mining estate in the county.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03

ing enormous gold values at the grassroots, have actually been sam pied by mining engineers of high standing and their stamp of approval placed thereon. These men say: the average gold values exceed 50 cents to the yard, and practical, experienc- ed placer miners say as high as $500 per cubic yard has ben secured. An average of seven samples, taken by a practical placer miner, showed aver age values of $2.10 to the cubic yard. The bars have an estimated depth of about 35 feet, and there is a great volume of water for all purposes. As the heavier gold is always found on bedrock the values mentioned must be greatly increased when bedrock is reached.
 The field is extensive, occupying vast area on both sides of the Colo rado river, in Nevada and Arizona, and easily accessible by good automo- bile road from Las Vegas, Nevada, on the north, and Kingman, Arizona, on the south.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
GOOD ROADS INDISPENSABLE
Highway Improvement Is a Business Proposition With Farmer and
 City DwelIer.

When 1t takes four horses to pull an empty wagon to town and wheat Is going off in price each day; when the mail carrier gives up in despair, and the children cannot get to school, the farmer cannot help wondering how much this condition is costing him each day.
 Figure as he may, he cannot get away from the fact that good roads are indispensable to agricultural pros- perity.
 The city dweller is alike concerned. The farm on a good road has scores of possibilities for the development of its resources to every one open to the farm on a poor road. Increased ex- penditures-greater buying powers.
 In the early days of poverty many a county bonded itself for hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure rail roads to promote agricultural develop ment. Three-fOurths of all the freight the railroads haul must sooner or later move over the public highways, and every ton so moved Is costing at an average rate of B cents per mile.
 Verify, road improvement Is a bust- ness proposition-a matter of dollars and cents. ..........-.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
HERE IS THE BASIS FOR
 POLITICAL PETITIONS

The laws of the State of Arizona make limit for signatures for poli- tical petitions of from to 10 per cent for county offices, five percent for precinct officers and from 1 to3 per cent for state offices. The last election shows that there was cast for the democratic candidates for gover- nor in Mohave County S99 votes and for the republican candidate 527, and therefore democratic candidates for county offices will be required to ob- tain not less than 26 signatures and not more than 50 to cause their names to go upon the primary ballot. Re- publican candidates will obtain not less than 16 nor more than 27. When signatures are obtained some person will have to make the proper affidavit before the petition is filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors and no names can be counted by the board in support of two separate petitions for the same office.
 All initiative petitions for new laws, etc., had to be filed by midnight of the 30th of June. It is understood that some of the measures have failed to get the required number of sigma lures to get them on the ballot at the general election next November.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03

Tap Duncan is spending few days in kingman.
 c. w. Hendon is spending a few days on the coast.
 Kenneth Bond is visitor this week at the James home.
 A car of Studebakers for Robinson & Beecher arrived Tuesday of this week.
 c. w. Herndon arrived home yes terday after two weeks vacation on the coast.
 Lear Staten is now with the Ari- zona Stores Company in the hardware department.
 J. H. Angler left for Los Angeles this week where he will spend few days with his sister and brother-in- law.
 Agnes Kelly will leave tomorrow for Jerome from where she will leave for San Francisco to spend a two weeks vacation.
 H. Peel left Wednesday for the Mo have Indian school where he will spend the next couple of months in- stalling their new electrical plant.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Mccormick are in Kingman for a few days. They expect to leave to-day for Prescott where they will spend the Fourth.
 Mrs. Templeman, who went to Phoenix as a matron in charge of an insane woman last week, is home again, and brought her grandchildren with her.
 M. H. Force and wife were in Kingman Thursday night from Oat- man, Mrs. Force being on her way to California, where she will visit with friends for some time.
 Etta MacLean is in receipt of a pie ture of her small nephew Billie" Swith newspaper article telling that he was the first 100 per cent baby at the San Jose baby show. He is the son of Miss MacLean's younger brother.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
WILL DEPORT IDLERS

Eight Mexican families have been taken into custody by the marshall at Tempe because the men folk refuse to work, even though offered five dol lars per day. These people were brought in from Mexico to work in the cotton fields and have become so trif- ling that they do not care to work no matter what the wage offered may be. Mexico wants workers, so we do not take it that these fellows will be overly welcome in the mother country.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
HIGHWAYS IN SOUTH DAKOTA
State Has 5000 Miles of Improved Roads-onIy Ten Other States 'a:.y. Exceed in Mileage.

South Dakota has 6,0O0 miles of main highways, out of total of 203,- 523 in the United States. Definite road systems have been established in A states, either through legisla- tive action or through state and local officials. North Dakota has 4,0OO miles and Minnesota 12,70O. Only ten states exceed South Dakota in mile age, while several of them have less than 1000 miles of main highway.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
PENNSYLVANIA NOW LEADING
Keystone State Led Nation in 1919 in Mileage of Contracts Lot for
 Road Building.

Pennsylvania led the nation in 1919 in mileage of contracts let for road construction, according to the state highway department. Up to January 1 the state awarded contracts for the building of 679.26 miles of du- rable highways. Its nearest competi. tor was Illinois, which contracted for 51O.70 miles.
 Pennsylvania's 1920 program calls for the construction of approximately 800 miles of roads. The department says that Pennsylvania is far ahead of other states in the organization it has perfected to build durable high
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
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mitigate the severity of these ail- ments.
 It is also urged that the streets in front of business buildings be cleaned of refuse, and that in future the prac- tice of sweeping refuse from business buildings into the streets shall cease.
 MOHAVE COUNTY BOARD
 OF HEALTH. Dated at Kingman, Arizona, this 2nd day of July, 1920.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
WILL SPEND SOCIAL
 EVENING TUESDAY

Next Tuesday night Western Lodge No. 12 Knights of Pythias will have a social evening instead of the reg ular lodge meeting. The officers for the coming six months will also be in stalled.
 A special program is being arrang- ed. All Knights and their wives are welcome.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
NOTICE

The Mohave County Board of Health respectfully urges the resi- dents of Kingman to make war on the weeds growing on their premises and along the streets and alleys. Just now hay fever and asthma are ex- tremely prevalent here, both of which diseases are largely due to pollen from weeds, and the destruction of the
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
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 into the field by M. w. Musgrove, and after two months of a very careful examination, he made very favor able report.
 Excerpts from that report appear below:
 Assay tests secured by Prof. Has san:
 Sample No. 1 69.66c per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 2 41.71c per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 8 39.O1c per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 4 43.20c per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 97.60c per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 69.66c per GU. yd.
 Sample No. Sill per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 8 1.53 per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 9 1.39 per GU. yd.
 Sample No. 10 69.66c per GU. yd.
 Prof. Hassan also says: Total gravel on high benches 106,48O,OO cu- bic yards. If the net returns from these gravels should be only 5c per cubic yard, wS will have 4,0OO, but if they should net $15 per cubic ward, based on Temple Bars Co. ex- perience, it would be $15,972,000, and in proportion more or less.
 (Temple Bar showed returns of IS 2-3 cents per yard and not 15 cents, as asserted by Prof. Hassan.)
 Total gravel in low bars 54,2OS,OOO cubic yards. If the net returns from these low bars should be 10c per cu- bic yard of gravel, we will have $5,- 42O,000, but if the net returns are say, 4Oc per cubic yard of gravel, which is quite possible, judging from pannings, then we will have $21, ,6s3,- 200. Assuming, however, the lowest possiblee stimate of Sc per cubic yard of gravel as net profit from both high and low bars, even then we will have from the located claims minimum of $S,O34, ,4O0.0O.
 Eli Hilty believes that 50 cents a cubic yard is conservative average value of the gold content in these bars. And M. w. Musgrove insists that $1O0 is nearer correct.
 Anson H. Smith, mining editor of the Mohave County Miner, believes that the gold value in these placer de- posits will easily average 50 cents to the cubic yard of dirt and he has made a very careful study of this subject.
 The great Colorado river drains a territory several thousand miles in ex- tent, and reaches through Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Arizona, and the millions of years of erosion of the wonderful gold fields in all these states, finds natural sluice box in the famous Grand Canyon of Arizona, and thus for ages vast quan- titiessof golden sand have been depos- ited by the flood waters of the Colo rado along the eddys and bars near Gregg's Ferry.
 And it is no wonder that eminent engineers have repeatedly stated that there is enough gold in the Colorado river between the mouth of the Grand Canyon and the Big Bend, to pay our National debt ten times over. The crevices and jagged rocks, in the bed of this stream, will give up its gold en sands, for the suction dredge will solve the problem.
 Southeastern Nevada is today the scene of the most remarkable placer l gold discovery ever known in the West for auriferous deposits, carTy-
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
BIG HIGHWAY APPROPRIATION
State of Wyoming Has Let Contracts for Improvements to Cost
 $3,oo0, 900 in 1920.

The total estimated cost of highway improvements for which the. WyOm- ing state highway department has let contracts, and which will be complet- ed during the present year, exceeds $3,OOOOOO. This total represents $15 for each inhabitant of the state.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
Moroccan Road Traffic,

Traffic on the (French) Moroccan highways is very large. In addition to the transport of passengers by pri- vate or public automobies, the roads permit an important movement of merchandise by mOtOrtrucks.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-03
Cities Could Not Survive,

Without roads, cities could not sur vive, and country-folk would be with out many of the present necessities, comforts, and luxuries of life, which they are now able to enjoy. MINER WANT ADS ARE BUSI-
 NESS WINNERS
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
BEGIN FIGHT ON 1T. B." NOW
Every Live Stock Owner Should
Boost Campaign Inauourated to
Eradicate tuberculosis.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture)
Live stock owners are earnestly re-
quested not to wait until the states
and federal government come into
their localities to eradicate tubercu-
losis. 1t would not be possible indeed
at this stage to undertake to eradicate
tuberculosis from the live stock OF the
United States solely through organized
Official forces established by the re-
spective states and the federal gov
eminent. The area over which tuber-
culOsis has spread Is too vast, the
herds too numerous. and funds are
insufficient for conducting the work
on SO extensive q plan even though
trained veterinarians were available
In sufficient numbers to do the work.
Every livestock owner should be a
party to this campaign which has been
inaugurated to eradicate tuberculosis.
In almost every locality Of the United
States are veterinarians capable Of
rendering valuable services to live
stock owners In this great work, and
the cost Of Graduating is greatly re-
duced by combating the disease In Its
early stages. Yet even In badly af-
fected herds eradication can be under
taken with success. There are records
of many herds, in which three-fourths
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
Aviators' Qualifications.

In England airmen were apt to be
ardent hunters of the fox and to have
what horsemen call "hands"-a quality
which as aviators enabled them to
know instinctively. as it were, what
an airplane was going to do before
1t did it. And, what will be shocking
to some folk, to keep the aviator in
best condition for his work and for
enduring its terrible stresses, he seem
ed, according to these authorities, to
need "a really riOtous evening at
least once or twice MONTH" The
older men were found to use alcohol
freely. but the younger ones required
no such stimulants, and they all avoid
ed excess, being well aware that for
them the penalty was sudden death.
Marriage deteriorated the aviator by
increasing his sense of personal re-
sponsibility for others. Courage he
had, of course, and touch of reck-
lessness is not undesirable from the
standpoint of achievement In war
Exchange.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
OWES LIFE TO BAD SERVICE
EnglIshman Willing to Die, but Re-
fused to Wait for Starvation
to Do the Work.

Owen Wister. the author. was talk
ing In Philadelphia about England's
disorganized train service.
"They told me a strange tale in Bir-
mingham." he said. ut seems that a
young Birmingham broker was disap-
pointed In love, and went out on the
railroad and laid his head on a rail,
intending to end 1t all.
"The London express was due in
three minutes. and the broker closed
his eyes.
HE waited, very pale. eyes closed.
Now and then he gulped. The three
minutes seemed long time passing
A long, long time. The rail got very
uncomfortable. The broker twisted
and turned his neck little. Finally
he looked at his watch. The train was
late-10 minutes late. With a sigh he
laid his head down on the rail again.
swell. to make long story short.
the broker waited and waited for that
Internal London express till-if he
hadn't gone away at last for bite to
eat-he'd surely have died of starva-
tion."
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
kindergarten In Smaller Towns.

Statistics just complied by the kin
dergarten division Of the bureau Of
education show that approximately
21,OS5 children were enrolled in kin
dergartens in towns under $500 popu-
lation during the year 1918. in charge
of 500 kindergarten teachers.
The banner states for kindergartens
in smaller places appear to be Michi-
gan and Wisconsin, the former state
with 40 kindergarten teachers and
4O15 pupils, and the latter state with
IS teachers and 1890 children in at
tendance at kindergartens In smaller
towns. California has 81 kindergarten
teachers and 2,037 pupils in cities IN
der $500 population; Iowa, SO teach
ers and 1,750 children; New Jersey,
40 teachers and 1912 pupils; and Ne
braska, 90 teachers and 1,746 children.
The Nebraska figures indicate spe-
cial effort to reach the smaller towns
with kindergarten facilities.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
MOTOR BOAT REAL CHURCH
Gospel Ship on Puget Sound Of Great
Comfort to People In Re-
mote Regions.

OF the 10 counties Of western WASH
Ington Is are accessible to seagoing
vessels. according to Agnes Lockhart
Hughes, in Everybody's. Hence the
Robert G. Seymour. floating church.
operated on Puget sound by Rev. Will
bert r. Howell and his wife.
During the four years that the Rob
ert q. Seymour has been in operation
1t has travelled on an average of 1900
miles year. carrying religion to Is
land county and up Hood canal II
regularly visits IL ports and as many
logging comps, bringing religion to
those who cannot seek It, The boat
Is gone often for month at a time.
and often has weathered some of the
toughest gales ever experienced on
the sound. Not infrequently, after a
sermon delivered aboard the gospel
ship. or on shore, some woman will
come forward with a question on her
lips regarding what lies near her
heart relative to the latest style in
dresses or hats, and always an an
swer Is forthcomlng-fo the good pilot
never omits to include fashion books
among his hymnas.
One woman acknowledged that SER
mon preached recently by the captain
OF the Gospel boat was the first she
had heard in dozen years. She was
the mother of nine children and had
had no opportunity previously Of hear.
ing church service.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
HANDLE aeaoY-MADE HOUSES
Norwegian Company Anticipates Coed
Business In Selling Them for
Erection In England.

Many houses are for sale In Norway,
the present owners of which are hope
full of selling them 10 Englishmen. No,
that they expect the English to emf
crate for Norwegian homes. but that
they hope 10 persuade them TO import
homes from Norway. The ready-to-
inhabit house. like the ready-to-wear
suit Of clothes. Is a modern Invention,
which has developed with marked sue
cess I'm Norway since the first ready
to-inhabit houses were made some 30
odd years ago. The ready-to-Inhabit
house. TO be sure. is less Immediately
disable than the ready-to-wear suit. for
IL must be put up and fastened to-
gether. The chief factory for the man
ufacture and export of Norwegian
ready-made houses Is near Christiania.
and the houses are usually Of six
rooms with variations that include a
considerable range Of styles and
prices. and they have all the modern
conveniences. Naturally the factory
is just now hoping to contribute
good many houses 10 the solution or
the housing problem In other coun-
tries. "As regards durability" says
a Norwegian correspondent. wooden
houses can be fairly said. after a
century's experience In Norway, to
last as long as brick. II kept prop
erly In repair. The wooden house In
dustry In Norway after 35 years ex-
perience has now developed to great
perfection. and the wooden dwelling
offers satisfactory solution of the
housing problem" The factory will
deliver a house in six weeks after 1t
has been ordered, but one of the
recognized elements in the British
housing situation is that your real
Briton wants at least part of his house
made with bricks.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
FISH BY.PRoDUcTs FOR HOGS
Bureau Of Animal Industry 10 Making
Tests Of Material a. Protein
Feed for Swine.

Cooperating with the bureau Of fish,
cries, the bureau Of animal industry Of
the United States department Of agri'
culture is making tests Of fishery BY
products as hog feed. For several
years these bureaus have been study.
Ing the use Of fish meal as protein
feed for swine and the product has
been found equal to high-grade tank
age, of which the supply is inadequate
During the last fiscal year new prod
uct known as shrimp bran was stud
led. The result of tests with 1t al
compared with fish meal were favora
Bile, the remainder of the ration be.
ing shelled corn and middlings.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
Degrees In Cormerce.

Commercial education Is 10 receive
new impetus AZ the University of Lon
don. where degrees in commerce are tn
be inaugurated in the near future
There are TO be two degrees: First.
that of bachelor Of commerce. which
would correspond 10 the same degree
In the other faculties: and secondly
the degree of master of commerce The
salient idea is that a modern language
Is 10 be taught. not as an academic.
but as a practical subject. says the
United States bureau Of education
Among the languages which are to be
taught as practical rather than AGA
demic subjects would be Polish. Czech.
Rumanian. modern Greek, and the
great eastern languages. Hindustani.
Chinese and Others.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
Machinery In Japan.

Japan's rapid Industrial progress
during the past FIVE years Is nowhere
more conspicuous than in the develop
ment of the machinery trade. Japan
imported in 1914 machinery to value
of somewhat more than $12,000O0O In
1918 more than $29.O0O,0OO. In 1914
the United States furnished 20 per
cent Of the total imports Of machin-
cry; In 1918 so per cent. Japan's ex-
ports Of machinery, chiefly to far
eastern countries. have increased from
S6340OO In 1914 to approximately
S7,S9O,0O0 In 1918. Exports include
electrical machinery, spinning and
weaving machinery, lathes and print
ing machinery.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
Mexican kIddIes "shoot HIoh.r

Geometry. zoology, meteorology and
botany are taught as early as the first
grade In the schools of the state of
Chihuahua, Mexico. The study Of these
sciences is simplified In the early
stages, but there is little attempt to
sugar coat" the hard facts.
A visitor to second grade classroom
recently found the pupils-none more
than eight years old-glibly discussing
rhombusses, rhomboids, trapezoids and
parallelograms. Whenever their teach
er asked a question thicket Of little.
waving arms went upward.
When the history period was called,
considerable emphasis was placed on
the various kings that ruled the TOT
tees. the aboriginal Inhabitants Of this
part Of Mexico. The children handled
the ancient Indian proper names with
surprising ease.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-11
Bow. Exploit Remarkable.

A twenty-four hours battle with
death ended at San Francisco with
the arrival OF the little schooner s. n.
Castle. a thlrteen-year-old boy at her
helm. bringing to safety his father. the
captain. his sick mother. and crew
of three men.
The Castle. a three-masted schooner.
was 81 days from Apia with cargo
of copra. Three days from the Sa-
moan port the Castle started leaking
and shipping seas at the rate Of twelve
feet day. The donkey engine wa
started to run the pumps and the
cargo Of copra fed as fuel.
Harry Anderson. IL, manned the
ship while his father worked with thu,
men at the pumps.