Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-05-19
|20Years Ago ]JU Today

Miss Mamie Penberthy left yester day for her old home in England. Sht will be gone two or three months. Hel many friends in Kingman wish hel a pleasant journey.
 The average assessment placed up on the mines of Mohave county by the assessor is in the neighborhood of $ just enough to comply with the law Taxing mining claims is an absurd proposition at best. (Unpatenteo mining claims were taxed as personal under law passed by the legislature. )
 Judge Cowan is moving his cattle from the Crozler ranch to his range near the Copper Camp, and left fol that place Wednesday morning accom- panied by w. c. Carleton.
 Mrs. Jane Oliver of Mineral Park is visiting her father, John Penberthy in Kngman.
 Mrs. J. N. Wilson and family will leave for Lodi, California, next week where they will in future reside. MT Wilson is already there. The people of Kingman are sorry to lose Mrs Wilson and her interesting family and wish them good luck in their new home.
 Mrs. J. R. Russell, in company of her niece Miss Kittie Wilson, left for two weeks visit to the Cienega ranch, where they will be the guests of Mrs. Henry Bowman. :.
 The new ballot system, which goes into effect this fall presents subject for the study of the average voter The law should be published by the territory so that its provisions could be fully understood.
 Nearly 600 editors representing evry state editorial association in the Union passed through Kingman Saturday evening on their way to San Fran cisco to attend the meeting of the National Editorial Association.
 A specimen of the crayon work of Miss Alice Goodman, of Blackberry, is on exhibition in the store window of the w. H. Taggart Mercantile com. pany. It is portrait of Richard Tag gart, enlarged from photograph, and is a lifelike representation of that gentleman.
 The prospect of bonding Kingman school district for the purpose of build ing a new and commodious school house is being >agitated by a number of our best business men. The mat ter will come up at the election of school trustees in June. (And they got the building and it is still in use).
 Moses Levy and bride arrived in Kingman last Saturday morning on their way to Signal from Europe. The many old friends of Aose in Kingmau gave him and brde glad welcome. A petition has been circulated in Kingman this week asking that the territorial board of equalization that the taxes of the, AtlanticAand Pacific railroad be placed at $5,000 per mile. That is the amount that the railroad company is willing ato pay taxes on. The fact of the matter is that the railroad now pays over one-half the taxes collected in the county and should be given some consideration.
 Sheriff Lake is working the pris- oners on the reservoir above the court house.
 A glance over the school report for the term ending ay 21 shows that there were many of the girls of to- day on the roster. The Miner would not for the world mention those who were graduating on that date, nor of the wonderfully high percentage of their educational standing, but we may tell of the boys, who are now getting gray in the service of their country. Among them are Frank and Trnest Graham, George Kier, Albert Noli, Willie Tarr, George Tarr, Thomas Hunter, Otto Kuencer, John Neal, Frank and Ivan Neal, Charles Wilson, Porfirio Noli, Lester Wilkinson. The not surprising fact was that in stand-' ing the boys were in the basement, while the girls were on the roof.