Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-06-23
s s0nYears Ago 1UU Today

A. M. MacDuffee left Tuesday even- ing for a three weeks trip to Denver and other Colorado points.
 Mrs. J. E. Perry is visiting with relatives in Needles.
 A miner by the name of Pat Con- nolly, well known in and around this county, committed suicide at Calico a few days ago. ..
 Miss Ada Hutchings, who has been teaching the Blackberry school the past term, paid kingman visit in company of Miss Fannie Nobman.
 Miss Maude Mcguire, who has been teaching school at Peach Springs the past term, returned to Kingman few days ago. In company of her sister, Miss Belle, she visited the Miner of flee.
 Miss Nellie Taggart, accompanied by Miss Blanche Alwens, arrived from Los Angeles last Sunday and will spend the vacation days here.
 Tuesday and Wednesday were the hottest of the year, the theremometer registering 100 degrees.
 Fred F. Brawn has just returned from the diggings at White Hills, where he and H. P. Ewing have se- cured fraction of ground west of the Garfield and African claims, two of the bonanza claims of the new camp.
 A number of saloon outfits are now on their way to the new mining camp of White Hills, and expect to be in full blast by the first of the coming week. ..+.f
 w. H. Taggart Mercantile company has sent ready-cut building to White Hills where it will be erected for use as a store. Several teams were sent out, loaded down with varied assort- ment of goods.
 James Twiggs was over from the Champion mine at Cerbat and reports that he has about 200 tons of high grade gold ore ready for the mill. MT. Twiggs and associates have mined hundreds of tons from the surround ing properties in the past few years.
 Peaches and apricots are ripe at the Johnson ranch, north of town.
 The first death on the road to the new colorado was Frank Wilson's bulldog, which perished on the way. Mrs. M A. Gillispie came in from White Hills this week and will return to that camp with necessary lumber and supplies to open hotel.
 Blackberry people are building a new road across Red Lake to White Hills, going in by way of Cold Springs.
 Cross brothers are preparing to op- crate a stage line to White Hills from Kingman and a postoffice will soon be established there. &r.
 J.L. Nelson was down from Peach Springs this week.
 The new shelter of the Southwest ern Reduction company is being haul ed out to Chloride, where Supt, Theiss expects to soon have it in operation.
 A little Blackberry girl, Mary Lee, writes her vision of the future, where in she sees Golden haired, brown eyed" Charlie linus driving a big pas ,senger engine on one of the coast railroads; Fannie Nobman and Sarah Miller had learned telegraphy and were running a station of the coast railroad near San Jose; Willie Ridenour and Fred Miller, prosperous farmers near the same town and op- erating the Greenwood farm; Maggie Ridenour was teaching the Greenwood school; Carroll Davis was prosperous shoemaker and Raymond Carr retailed the shoes that came from CarrolPs factory. Mrs. Davis kept house for the boys and they were all prosperous and happy. Carroll was quite book worm and had splendid library. Cora and May linus conducted dress making establishment in this town of Greenwood, and close by was the mil linery store of Lizzie Hunt. The Misses Nellie linus and Katie Moran ran a novelty store and were doing well. Nettie linus was teaching school at Blackberry. (Alack and alas, the vision of all of us is circumscribed, as none of these things happened. average business man is primarily in