Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-14
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Mrs. H. Graham is having her house removed from Todd Basin and will erect it in White Hills for business purposes.
 Mrs. Eva Briggs, of Needles, is vis- iting with her parents in Kngman.
 We regret to announce the death of the little daughter of MT. and Mrs. Rees M. Jones, of Cerbat. The little one was attacked with cholera in fantum Sunday morning and died Sunday night.
 A petition was filed with the board of supervisors asking for the appoint ment of William Larkin as Justice of the Peace at White Hills and was favorably acted upon.
 The Misses May linus and Dora Grounds are visiting with Mrs. E. J. Goldman in Kingman. The young ladies live in Blackberry.
 The stock ranges of Mohave coun- ty are badly in need of rain. Many of the springs throughout the county are drying up and the feed is in bad shape.
 Prof. w. P. Miller and Pat Ready came in from San Francisco last night and have gone out to White Hills, where they expect to make deal for the G. A. R. Prof. Miller is one of the best known engineers on the coast and Mir. Ready is we'll known law yer, formerly largely interested in mining throughout Nevada and Cal ifornia.
 The tri-weekly stage from King man to White Hills is now making schedule trips, the distance of 55 miles being made in less than six hours.
 J. N. Louder, one of ye old timers, and for a number of years resident of Silver Reef, Utah, was in town the past week on business. MT. Louder was connected with the department of justice of the U. S. for number of years.
 JN. Cohenour this week announced himself as a candidate for sheriff on the republican ticket. MT. Cohenour is a good business man and if elected would make a faithful and competent officer.
 H. B. Hanna went up the road to Albuquerque Sunday night with his brother, P. K. Hanna, whom he had not seen in twenty years.
 Mrs. Musser, mother of John Mus ser, is visiting with Mrs. Charles Zeimer.
 Ferdinand Orosco, who has been hauling ore from the Diamond Joe mine, is in town getting supplies and having repairs on his wagons.
 w. L. Austin, representing the Py- ritic Smelling company, of San Fran cisco, is looking over the district with view to putting in one of his plants. He was accompanied by Peter Caffery on his trip over the mines.
 c. c. Hall, one of the principal boosters of Albuquerque, was in Kingman this week interesting Mo haveites in the territorial fair at the Duke City.
 Thomas Oliver and Dick Pemberthy have left the county and will prob ably settle in Stockton, California. . A. Todd, one of the early settlers of Mohave county, has gone to San Francisco for short stay. MT. Todd came to Mohave county in the early seventies and has resided here the greater part of his life.
 Owing to failure to get miners the Ark mine has had to suspend opera tions. The mine was working 23 men and all but three of these have gone to White Hills, where the lure of rich ore and hopes of leases have drawn them.
 A Mexican superstition, very com mon among miners in the land of manana, relates to the "gold" snake. The specie of serpent is entirely harmless and very handsome, being green in color and with golden ir- ridescene in its scales. Faith is en- tertained that wherever gold snake makes it's nest there is a ledge con- taining the precious metal, and there are many miners who will locate a claim at once if they find gold snake. The snake editor does not vouch for this story, but it is never theless superstition obtaining the northern part of