Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-12-01
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A mountain lion that measured Il feet from tip to tip was killed in Cot tonwood canyon, few days ago, by an Indian. The lion had just brought down a two year old heifer and pro ceeded to devour it when the Indiar came upon it. It was one of the larg est lions ever killed in this" part O the territory. A. B. Erode, Atlanti & Pacific railroad agent at Hackber ry, purchased the pelt.
 E. B. Kerby, agent for the Root Berry people. who recently purchases the Schaefer group of mines at Whit Hills, arrived in Kngman few day ago and has gone out to White Hill to arrange for greater production MT. Kerby is to let contracts for thu haulage of 600 tons of freight tha is to be delivered at Kingman station l in the next sixty days. This freigh consists of machinery and equipmen | for the mines.
 w. H. Lake will commence the cree ton of a fine two story building or the corner of Front and Fouth streets Kingman, which will be used for bus mess and lodge purposes.
 A beautiful display of heavenly fire works was visible from Kingmar Monday night, great banks of jet black clouds being lit up fitfully by lightning and again by meteoric dis, plays. The display of meteors was the greatest ever witnessed by oul people.
 A horserace is scheduled on the Big Sandy for the Christmas sports, be- tween a horse owned by William Nc Gee and one owned by a man named Maxy, foreman for the Thomas Hal leck ranch.
 w. H. Campbell, who has been at the head of the Flores mines the past several years, has accepted a position with a Yavapai county company, pos sibly the Yarnell.
 Harvey Hubbs took possession of the Hubbs house on the first of this month. MT. and Mrs. Hubbs are among the best caterers in the coun- try and ought to get a big run of business.
 Frank Garner is advertising his horses for sale-from the size of a jack rabbit to that of an elephant, mostly the jackrabbit size.
 Frank L. Smith has been quite i'll this week, but is on the road to re- covery.
 Erin Sherman, one of the old tim CTS of this county, caa1e over from Mineral Park a few days ago. MT. Sherman is the owner of the Blue Boy mine, near the old Lone Star.
 Peach Springs parties keep the In dians well supplied with booze, 'oc- casioning many brawls among the members of the tribe and making it dangerous for the whites to get be- yond the limits of the town.
 Receipts from freight received at Kingman station for the month of Mo- vember reached $6,00O.
 J. S. Krafts has sold his boarding house at White Hills to M. E. Josephi.
 Mrs. Quinones and daughter Nancy have returned from a trip to Signal, where they visited with relatives.
 MT. Corbin, owner of the Kingman townsite is offering the Glsoid lots for low price. People who want lots in tie best town in the nerth are ad- vised to get in on this offer.
 The high Wallapais were visited by the storm king this week, but King man escaped the fleecy mantle.
 Mrs. w. G. Dodge, wife of post master Dodge, will leave here in a few days for San Francisco, where she will spend the holidays with relatives.
 A postoffice has been established at White Hills with w. H. Taggart as postmaster. No contract has yet been let for carrying the mail, but the people are served through a pri- vate route.
 Some vandal entered the Clark room" of the local lodge of Odd Eel lows, a few days ago, and stole all the black balls from the ballot box, and when the lodge met to vote on the application of a candidate, the members had to stand at lease" while a few cubes were whittled out to al- low voting members to rightly ex- press their feelings.
 Mrs. J. D. Shepherd is about to visit her relatives in Kansas and will probably leave Kingman Monday next.
 Bruce Tyler, travelling auditor of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, with headquarters at Winslow, was in Kingman a few days ago checking up the local office.