Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-08-25
R0nYears Ago
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 day last and set the tax rate for the year at $3.65 on the $1OO.
 The court calendar for this term of court has 27 civil and not one crim- inal case.
 Mrs. w. G. Blakely has gone out to Quail Springs to visit with Mrs. Daniel Bonelli, who is visiting with her sons. .. l"l One of Wallapai Charley's, girls died a few days ago and was buried according to the white mans custom. Charley has lost number of his papooses lately, by death, the cause being unknown.
 It is rumored that Amos MacDuffee is candidate for the republican nom ination for sheriff. Mac is a good fellow and would make good officer if elected.
 Messrs. Morris and Hubbs of Tulare county, California, arrived in King man Wednesday last. MT. Hubbs is a brother of our genial county treas urer, Harvey Hubbs, and expects to make this place his home for some time.
 Mrs. Eva Briggs, of Needles, Cali fornia, is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Potts..
 Jack Doling, who is in Benson deal. ing out wet goods for Uncle Sam Wise, is looking the same that he did in 1882. He has been in Humboldt county, California, for several years. He talks of going to White Hills, where there has been new strike.- Tombstone Prospector.
 A letter received by Byron Sherman from Ivanpah, California, contained information of the serious injury of his brother Win, in an explosion at mine near that place. Win had been working in a tunnel and was living in another tunnel a short distance away. During the evening he had been visit ed by stranger who was to remain all night. During the evening a skunk wandered into the tunnel, where the supplies and box of giant pow der was stored. Sherman picked up his gun and fired at the skunk, the bullet striking the powder and caus- ing, an explosion that instantly killed the stranger and blew Sherman out on the hillside some distance. away. Sherman was standing close to the powder when it went off and was blown over the head of the other man. How he escaped from instant death was a miracle, bu-he killed the skunk.
 Miss Mabel Ayers and brother Ed mund are visiting with Mrs. H. Ora ham in Kingman. The young folks are from Cerbat.
 Mrs. O. D. Clack came down from the c. o. D. mine few days ago and is now living at the Oak Creek ranch.
 Miss Millie Feeler, sister of Mrs. G. w. Beecher, who has been visiting in California the past month, return ed to Kingman Saturday evening.
 Gideon Cornell and "Frenchy" Peters returned this week from an ex- tended prospecting trip through Gold and Lost Basins.
 Hon. Foster S. Dennis returned from a trip to San Francisco and other California points this week.
 It is claimed that Arizona will pro- duce $1,000,000 worth of wool this year.
 A prospector brought into Eureka Landing the other day, "plancha de la plata, which he found in the hills northeast of Ehrenburg. It is oval in shape, about a foot wide and eigh- teen inches long and two inches thick in the thickest part, and weighs over 100 ounces. The Spanish name given to the plancha is equivalent to the English of "silver .bar". The pros pector who found the: silver saw al corner of the bar sticking out of the dirt and little work brought the en- tire bar into view. It is undoubtedly centuries old, as no shelter had ever been operated in that part of the country by Americans or Mexlcans, so far as history goes. The Aztecs un- derstood the metallurgy of silver and lead and had erected adobe smelters to handle these metals, as well as cop per and iron. It was purchased by the Hodges brothers,, of Yuma.
 The final payment on the purchase price of the President and Senator mines, in Gold Basin will be made in a few days. Considerable work will be done on the properties this fall and winter.
 The one-cent-a-mile rate for round trip to the Albuquerque fair should be taken advantage of by all who pos sibly can get away from Mohave county. (One cent a mile would be taken advantage of today, we would say).
 J. L. Clark, known as Keystone, nas just sold an onyx mine near En- senada, Lower California, for a good sum of money. MT. Clark was one of the first of the Pioche party to arrive in this county in the early ,pyantieS Tho cnacip,eDc of tho o,,,,,,