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80 to 100 YEARS AGO
From the Mohave County Miner
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October 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
October 5, 1928
E. H. Dickie exhibited a cut opal that is one of the most peculiar and
handsomest stones that we have ever seen. The opal comes from a deposit
on the Big Sandy. The cut gem shows a magnificent bluish color,
containing considerable fire ranging toward the Mexican fire opal and
being wonderfully brilliant.
Vernon Stableford, formerly of Kingman and now a resident of
Albuquerque, will return to Kingman on October 15, to take his old
position with Tarr, McComb & Ware Commercial Co.
The Roberts Sisters who have been playing to good houses are to be with
us only two days more. Their shows are far better than the average
traveling show that comes to Kingman.
October 12, 1928
Virginia Kayser wrote the highest net typing speed ever obtained in the
Kingman high School when she achieved a speed of 67 words a minute in a
15-minute test given in the Typewriting II Class.
Sue Beauchamp, school teacher on the Sandy, was a Kingman visitor last
Sunday.
October 19, 1928
This week the engineering commission appointed by Secretary of Interior
Hubert Work, with the approval of the President, went out to the
Boulder and Black Canyon dam sites on the Colorado River, for the
purpose of inspecting the rock structure and preparing a report.
Eddie Marquez of the Arizona Stores Co., and Dean Pattillo of the
Arizona Central Bank, left for a two weeks’ vacation in San Francisco.
T. M. Smith lately opened a mine brokerage office in the I. M. George
building.
October 26, 1928
A. G. Wells, first vice president of the Santa Fe systems and Lord
Allenby, British general who captured Jerusalem during the last war,
passed through Kingman in the former’s private car last Friday.
Work will be started the first of next week on the short strip of
highway between Needles and Topock.
100 Years Ago
October 3, 1908
With this issue the Miner enters on the twenty-seventh year of its
existence in Mohave County. When the paper first saw the light of day
no railroad had reached the lines of the county, all communications
with the outside world being by stagecoach and the Colorado River
steamers.
Henry Lovin is at the Tom Reed mine getting the building for Lovin
& Withers store, boarding and lodging house in shape for business.
The stock of the Mining Supply Company has been removed from Vivian to
the Tom Reed.
October 10, 1908
S. C. Bagg is finishing up assessment work on the Cyclopic group of
mines in Gold Basin. He has more than 100,000 tons of ore in one mine,
which is said to carry enough values to make it exceptionally
fine milling rock.
P. McCardell went up to Hackberry to survey out the Ridenour ranch. W.
B. Ridenour has held his ranch at Hackberry for nearly thirty years and
recently concluded that it would be best to get government patent to it.
October 17, 1908
Below the 100 level John Boyle is getting splendid ore in the Golconda
mine. The ore now fills the shaft and at no point is there a break in
its continuity. The mine promises to be one of the greatest zinc-lead
properties.
J. E. Perry purchased from Mrs. L. V. Snyder residence the corner of
Third and Beale Sts. in Kingman.
October 24, 1908
James Carter was in town from his mines in the Tom Reed section of San
Francisco district. He reports that he has a shaft down over ninety
feet on the mine and that drifts have been run off both ways on the
vein.
The McCracken properties are among the greatest of the mines of the
territory, the ore bodies being of immense size and having a uniform
richness not found in any of the other great properties of the
Territory. Millions of dollars are in sight in the mines, although only
the 400 level has been reached.
October 31, 1908
J. N. Cohenour is sinking a few wells in town with the Ira George
machine. Frank Millread has just had a well bored at his residence on
West Oak Street and J. S. Kolar is having his well reamed out and will
sink it deeper.
Frank Russell and W. E. Frost came in from Wallapai Springs. Mr. Frost
has just completed the work of shearing his big band of goats and
turned them over to Mr. Russell, who will have charge of them on
contract. It is the intention of Mr. Russell to remove his family to
Freeze Wash and devote his attention to the goat business.
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September 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
September 7, 1928
On last Wednesday evening, friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Light of
Valentine entertained for them in honor of their fortieth wedding
anniversary with a dinner party at the Light home in Valentine.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Buckley of the Arrow Ranch moved into Kingman and
have entered their children in the local school.
G. W. Derrick, principal of the Oatman School, was in Kingman on
business last Wednesday.
September 14, 1928
Bill Jones of Topock was a business visitor Wednesday in Kingman.
Jack Farrel of Yucca this week received delivery on a new Ford Tudor
sedan.
Ralph Buckley, well known cattleman, this week shipped something over
500 head of cattle from his Arrow ranch.
Ed Gillespie of the Kingman Motor Co., returned Monday from a business
trip to St. Johns.
September 21, 1928
William Lawe, superintendent of the Wright Creek Gold Mines Co., has
moved to Kingman where he will make his future headquarters.
E. Ross Housholder has been busy with his engineering work in the
Mineral Park District.
Nancy Stephens, school teacher on the Sandy, spent last week-end as the
guest of Louise Mealy.
Frank P. Andreas, registered assayer, has been employed by the Evahon
mine in Mineral Park to take charge of their laboratory.
September 28, 1928
The 1928 freshman class of K. H. S. held their first class meeting in
Sep. 14, 1928. This meeting was called in order to elect the class
officers. The officers elected are: David Crozier, president: Claude
Manship, vice-president: Jack Bale, secretary and treasurer: Helen
Lebeau, class reporter. Miss Ruth Seivers was elected as class sponsor.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Allen of Music Mountain were Kingman callers
Wednesday evening.
Bert Gilbert and William Rush assisted E. Ross Housholder, in surveying
four side line claims for the Black Dyke Gold Mines.
100 Years Ago
September 5, 1908
Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Tilton are leaving Kingman, the doctor having
accepted a position in the service at Leupp, Ariz.
Howard W. Kemper has opened a mining brokerage office in the Hotel
Beale.
J. S. Withers, accompanied by F. P. Andreas, went out to his mines near
Secret Pass in the Blue Ridge range. Mr. Andreas, who is a mine man of
much experience, pronounces the Union Pass and Secret Pass section
among the best gold mine regions of the territory.
September 12, 1908
Miss M. Elizabeth Trout returned from Pennsylvania. Miss Trout has been
engaged as principal of Kingman public school and will enter on her
duties next Monday.
Everett Van Marter and Frank Noli are getting a string of tools ready
to begin sinking a well in town. The boys will use a spring pole for
the work.
September 19, 1908
Miss Bernice Smith leaves for the Big Sandy, where she will teach the
Stephens school the coming term. Miss Smith is a graduate of the
Kingman Public School.
Last Saturday afternoon one of the heaviest rains of the season fell
here. During the progress of the storm a great deal
of hail fell, some of the stones being of immense size. Every canyon in
and around Kingman was a raging torrent within a few
minutes. One of Carrow brother’s teams was caught in the canyon below
town and one of the horses drowned, the driver extricating the other
three horses by cutting the harness and getting them out of the path of
the torrent. The driver, Jerome Carrow, was up to his armpits in water
while trying to save the team.
September 26, 1908
W. B. Ridenour, the well known Hackberry mining man, was in Kingman
shaking hands with old friends and relating reminiscences of the olden
days when Mohave county was young.
H. A. De Rudio came up from the Copper Camp and is looking after mining
business in Kingman.
Sheriff Brown visited the south part of the county this week.
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August 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
August 3, 1928
Arrangements are being completed for the three-day rodeo to be held in
Kingman, September 1, through Labor Day. Alva Jones has contracted to
furnish all the necessary cattle and Lou Neal is out
among the various ranches in the district in search of the wildest
horse flesh.
Henry Lang, owner of the local motion picture theatre, returned from a
short trip to the coast.
Miss Betty Hall purchased the first 1929 Buick in the county from the
Old Trails Garage Co.
August 10, 1928
Negotiations were completed whereby Carl Lynch purchased the
partnership from his partner, Harry Drake, in the Drake-Lynch Chevrolet
Co., on the extreme west end of Front Street.
Ralph Buckley was in from the Arrow ranch during the early part of the
week.
August 17, 1928
Miss Faire Virgin took a position in the office of the Tarr, McComb
& Ware Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, who purchased the Box Canyon from C. W. Keys,
are well satisfied with their new acquisition. This is one of the
nicest little places in the surrounding country.
The Hopis have their snake dances to bring rain, but when it comes to
real definite results, leave it to B.P.O.E. 468 for their annual picnic
has all ceremonials of the red men licked to a standstill. For six
months no rain and then Sunday tradition of years past repeated itself
and it sure did rain.
August 24, 1928
Dallas Yarbrough and his family are home after spending a few weeks
vacation on upper Knight Creek.
Word comes of the sale of the Jones Property in Topock. William and
Morgan Jones, the former owners, will move to the Alva Jones ranch in
the Sacramento Valley.
Young Bob Manship, flying his own ship circled the town and made an
excellent landing on the local landing field, received the
congratulations of the community on being the first person in Mohave
County to own, operate and manage his own plane.
100 Years Ago
August 1, 1908
Violent rainstorms are reported from all parts of the county, many of
the roads leading to mining camps having suffered from washouts. Harvey
Hubbs, who came in from Wallapai Mountains reports that four inches of
rain fell there in one hour. The grasses throughout the region are knee
deep and the cattlemen ranging their stock there have broad smiles.
The Misses Alta Hubbs and Bernice Smith made the ascent of Wheeler’s
Peak, the highest point of the Wallapai Mountains, being the first
ladies to accomplish this feat.
August 7, 1908
Roy Wright, who has a lease on the Samoan mine at Chloride, was a
Kingman visitor.
George and Hubert Smith are working on the old Lookout mine about four
miles south of Kingman.
Old Chief Sherum and many of his tribe have gone to Fort Mohave, where
a combination pow-wow and medicine cry will be held.
Grant and Jerry Elmore have been at work on a well in the foothills
north of Kingman and at a depth of less than sixty feet have struck a
strong flow of water.
August 15, 1908
Gene Brown reports that the recent heavy rains uncovered a four foot
vein of ore in one of the canyons near the old Carter gold mine, in
Cottonwood district.
August 22, 1908
Last Sunday about forty Kingman gentlemen and ladies went out to
Chloride in a special train to witness the ball game between rival
nines of the two cities.
H. A. Owen, familiarly known as Chloride Jack, departed to Prescott
where he will remain. He was the discoverer of the famous McCracken
mine.
J. A. Carrow came up from his Big Sandy ranch and brought with him a
big load of his famous peaches. He reports that his trees are now
bearing a second crop of fruit.
August 29, 1908
The oil excitement at Yucca still continues and thousands of acres have
been locate. All available lands in that section have been filed on as
far as Little Meadows and several miles south of the town of Yucca.
E. F. Thompson has fitted up the old Emporium building, on Front
Street, and will remove his stock and fixtures to that place. Sullivan
and Sauls will remove to the rooms vacated by Mr. Thompson.
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July 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
July 6, 1928
Lewis Yates and his son Frank Yates arrived here this week from Los
Angeles. Frank Yates is now working in the grocery department of
Central Commercial Co.
Charles P. Elmer, local attorney, received word of his appointment as
United States commissioner for the district of Kingman.
Frank P. Andreas and Alois Herbst are working their mining properties
above Mineral Park and are living at the Eagle camp.
July 13, 1928
Mrs. Tap Duncan of the Diamond Bar ranch was in Kingman shopping the
early part of the week.
Friends of Mrs. William St. Charles will be pleased to learn that she
is opening up a modern beauty parlor in the Elliott Court.
Louis Janc of the Yucca Mercantile Co. at Yucca, was a business visitor
in Kingman this week.
Paul Long of Oatman was in Kingman visiting with P. R. Campbell of
Rittenhouse and Campbell.
July 20, 1928
Dr. Brazie, who has been practicing in Oatman and who spent several
months in Kingman last year and the first of this, is going to take up
his practice in Kingman. He will have offices jointly with Dr. Moir,
the latter’s office being remodeled for that purpose. Dr. and Mrs.
Brazie will move to Kingman next week.
Friday, July 13, proved an exciting if not unlucky day for Arthur F.
Black of the Kingman Motor Co., when while driving into the coast,
several men jumped from an ambush at the side of the road and fired
five shots at Mr. Black’s car. According to Mr. Black, he was driving
east, a short way out of Ludlow, when he saw a short distance up the
road, a man with a flashlight trying to attract his attention . As he
neared the light a voice called to him to pull over to the side of the
road, but instead of doing so, Mr. Black asserts that that he “gave her
the gun” to the accompanying fusillade of five shots from the revolvers
of the men.
July 27, 1928
J. H. Herridge, goat man on the Sandy was in Kingman yesterday on
business.
Irwin Thele, who has been assisting Melvin Templeman in the Ventura
branch of the Templeman and George Studebaker garage, returned to
Kingman and has taken his old job with the Kingman office.
100 Years Ago
July 4, 1908
Last Tuesday morning Frank Crozier and Miss Lottie Grounds were united
in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, in Fresno, California.
Mrs. Ida Crozier, mother of the groom attended the wedding. The young
couple are well known in Kingman and Hackberry, being natives of Mohave
county.
T. J. Grant came down from the Music Mountain section to take in the
Fourth of July celebration.
J. W. Marshall, a well known mine owner of Chloride, is in Kingman on
business. Mr. Marshall owns a gold mine in the Layne Springs country
that has produced a large amount of ore rich in gold.
Thomas Welch and Ed Swope are sinking a shaft on a mining claim south
of the old Fay property and have a good showing. The ore is low in
grade, but the vein is very large and easily worked.
July 11, 1908
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Murphy are building a new residence near their
lodging house on South Front Street.
There was born to the wife of W. A. Reiff at Boulder Springs, on the
6th day of July, a baby girl.
C. J. Hutchison, general manager of the Expansion Gold Mining Company
reports that fifteen thousand gallons of water is now being produced by
their water shaft and well at the mines.
July 18, 1908
Work is progressing on the First Chance and Last Chance mining claims,
near Wallapai Springs, owned by Gaddis, Frost & Co. the mines show
splendid bodies of ore of a high shipping grade.
Lovin & Withers have another car of watermelons on ice.
Albert Noli and sisters are enjoying the breezes of the high Wallapais.
July 25, 1908
Lovin & Withers have purchased the property on the corner of
Fourth and Beale Streets from C. A. Wanger, of Berkely. It is
understood that Messrs. Lovin and Withers contemplate the erection of a
handsome store building on the lots.
A. E. Ware this week purchased the St. Charles residence on Oak street.
R. J. Smith has completed a new residence on lots in the rear of the
Emerson residence.
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June 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
June 1, 1928
Six boys and six girls were graduated from the senior class of the
Mohave County Union High School. The graduates were: Audrey V.
Brakeman, Joseph A. Bonelli, Emmett P. Chapman, Ruth K. Cunningham,
Lowell S. Hart, Marjorie E. Jagerson, Louis F. James, Millicent E.
Kapp, Annabel E. Kause, Marguerite L. Lewis, George B. McDevitt
and
Ronald V. Seipple.
Jack McCoy shipped 100 head of cattle from Hackberry to Los Angeles.
June 8, 1928
Bill Smith will start work on the Katherine East End. A crosscut will
run from the 130 level to the sideline. Mr. Smith completed the
assessment work on the Katherine Florence this week.
Aubrey Sims, of the Old Trails Garage won his first leg on the I. M.
George trophy coming in five down.
June 15, 1928
Ansel Taylor of the Peach Springs Trading Post, was a visitor in
Kingman last Saturday.
Mrs. L. M. Wheeler and Miss Dorothy Dunlap spent several days as the
house guests of Mrs. Harriet Fancher at the Fancher ranch.
Ben Leavis, cattleman form Signal, was here Thursday on business.
Miss Clara Davis left for Valentine where she will spend a short time
with Miss Betty Light.
June 22, 1928
Geo. Greele of Hackberry was a shopper in Kingman the early part of the
week.
Roscoe Stevens and Jess Bland of the Katherine were in Kingman last
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bale moved into their new home which was formerly
the Grantham property.
June 29, 1928
Paul Long of Oatman was a business visitor in Kingman yesterday.
N. O. Banegas, cattleman from the Sandy, was in Kingman on business.
Donald and Lloyd Tarr, sons of Nate Tarr of Tarr, McComb and Ware,
spent a few days visiting friends in Kingman.
100 Years Ago
June 6, 1908
Hubert J. Smith, who has been at the Goldroad Red Top mines returned to
Kingman. He reports that the shaft on the Last Chance mine was down
about thirty- five feet. The property is on the Gold Road lode.
J. W. Thompson and John Mulligan have arranged to run their new stone
building on Front St. three stories high. The building is of Kingman
tuff, one of the best building stones of the volcanic series. When
completed it will be one of the handsomest buildings on the line of the
Santa Fe railroad.
The Goldroad baseball club has cleared off the grounds west of camp
and are hard at work getting in shape for the June games to be played
in Kingman on the Fourth of July.
June 13, 1908
Ralph Bulkley and Joe Goodwin brought about twenty-five head of beef
cattle from the Big Sandy and shipped them to Needles.
George A. Bonelli has removed the fixtures and stock of goods from the
Emporium to his store on Fourth Street.
C. J. Hutchison arrived in Kingman from Los Angeles with a forty
horsepower Pope-Toledo automobile. The trip across the desert was made
in record-breaking time, the party having left Los Angeles, making the
trip in three and one-half days. The machine is to be used between
Kingman and the mines.
June 20, 1908
Blaine Crozier and W. F. Grounds, Jr. completed the sale of all their
cattle, range, ranches and ranch buildings to Samuel Sloan of Los
Angeles. The gentlemen departed to the Milkweed ranch, where the
property will be turned over. The price stated was something over
30,000$.
The telephone line is fast approaching completion between Yucca and
McCracken, while the ditching for the big water pipe between Clenega
Ranch and McCracken is well under way.
June 27, 1908
Someday Mohave county will supply the steel plants of the world with
molybdenum. The mines of molbdenite ores, in the Cedar district are the
largest ever discovered in the world. In that locality there are veins
averaging from one foot to fifteen feet in width, every one of which
carries molybdenite.
Henry Lovin has gone to Phoenix and Kelvin, where he has commercial
interests. While in Phoenix he will purchase a carload of watermelons
to place on sale during the Fourth of July activities.
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May 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
May 4, 1928
Doctor Preston of Oatman was in Kingman on business yesterday.
Carl Reiterman, principal of the local high school principal, left for
Tucson, accompanied by Pemberton and Bonelli of the local track team.
They will return to Kingman Sunday night.
Clyde Cofer, well known cattleman of Mohave County has been at the Raw
Hide mine near the Bill Williams, looking over his property and
outlining the future development of his property.
May 11, 1928
M. B. Wilson, local tailor and cleaner, joined forces with Ray Skinner
in the cleaning business, is now located at the old stand on Fourth
Street.
Word was received that Minnie M. Kayser and E. L. Ming of Hackberry
were married on April 18. They are making their home in Hackberry after
spending their honeymoon at the Grand Canyon. The bride and groom
endeavored to keep this a secret but the news of the marriage finally
gotten out.
May 18, 1928
J. C. Spear, former U. S. government cattle inspector at Peach Springs,
was a business visitor in Kingman.
The Gavin-Gillan lease on the Ben Harrison shaft of the Tom Reed
property is supplying the mill with about 30 tons a day of ore that
will average $15 per tons.
Miss Dorothy Mann, daughter of the superintendent of the Indian school
at Valentine, was Kingman shopper
May 25, 1928
The school at McConnico graduated Harold Lewis from the eighth
grade. Mrs. Ruth Hilty, the teacher.
Mrs. Francis Casson has been appointed as matron of the Mohave County
farm by Mrs. Emaline Walker, superintendent of the Mohave County
Hospital. Mrs. Casson is thoroughly competent and a practical women and
one well fitted for the position of matron.
100 Years Ago
May 2, 1908
Bud Walker and family have gone to Yucca, where they will remain. Mr.
Walker is running a blacksmith shop at Yucca and is said to be doing an
excellent business.
Tom Cannon arrived in Yucca with a carload of big mules, which he
intends putting into service at the McCracken mines. The mules were
purchased by the McCracken company in and around Seligman
Anne F. Cartlidge, formerly of the District Attorney’s office, will do
all classes of typewriting and stenographic work.
May 9, 1908
E. M. Carrow came up from his ranch on the Big Sandy. He reports his
orange trees doing nicely and believes that orange culture will become
one of the industries of the Big Sandy.
J. M. Farley and a force of men are clearing out the alley in the rear
of the Miner office. It is probable that the alley will be opened from
Fourth to Fifth St. only a few more fences to be torn out.
Miss Vina Starkey came to Kingman from the Grass Springs ranch and
departs to Los Angeles.
Marion Derrick, who has a ranch near Hardyville, on the Colorado River
was a Kingman visitor.
May 16, 1908
F. J. Murphy is up from his mines near McConnico and reports that in
the bottom of the shaft the ore is showing up nicely. He exhibited some
specimens of gold and copper ore that were really fine.
J. W. Wood, foreman of the Santa Fe water service, has a large
gang of men at work on the foundations for the two big water tanks that
the company is to build at this place. The tanks are to be more than
forty feet high and will hold an immense quantity of water.
May 23, 1908
Last Monday Beale Springs ranch was sold by Sheriff Brown under a
foreclosure of mortgage, W. H. Taggart bidding the property in for the
mortgagor. It is understood that Mohave County has entered into an
agreement to purchase this ranch for a county poor farm and that all
county patients and those receiving aid from the county will be moved
thereon as soon as the buildings are in habitable shape.
Tarr & McComb Company will move into their new quarters. The rooms
are being fitted up in elegant style and when completed will be the
most commodious in this part of the territory.
May 30, 1908
A. L. McKesson has several miners employed on his Holy Moses mine, near
Gold Flat.
A. F. Harris and family have gone to Harris’ ranch in the Wallapais.
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April 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
April 6,
1928
Tom F. Conroy of the Kingman engineering Equipment Co., was called to
Oatman on business.
A new orchestra has been organized in Kingman. It is composed of
manager Glenn Goodwin, drums; Pete Campbell, saxophone; Ed Hilty;
saxophone; Jeff Templeman, trombone and Mrs. Bobbie Sullivan., pianist.
April 11, 1928
E. Ross Housholder, accompanied Lawrence B. Wright, mining geologist,
to the Katherine district where Mr. Wright looked over several mining
properties in which he is interested.
W. D. Lawe, superintendent of the Wright Creek Mining Co. at Valentine,
was in Kingman on business.
Harry Drake took a position with the Central commercial co. in the
furniture department.
April 20, 1928
Joe Morgan, court reporter returned to Kingman from Phoenix having
acted as court reporter in the superior court of Maricopa county.
The Central Commercial Co., this week opened a new store in Oatman to
be named the Central Cash Carry.
Homer Gaddis of the Oneida ranch, was a business visitor in Kingman
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rice arrived to make their home in Kingman. Mr. Rice
is associated with the Mohave Steam Laundry as foreman.
April 24, 1928
Sheriff Brewer, supervisor Henry Lovin and road superintendent A. F.
Harris returned from a trip to the northern strip. Some road matters
were gone into by Mr. Lovin and Mr. Harris while Sheriff Brewer
straightened out some range problems.
Frank DuBois and George Cummings of the Star Garage made a business
trip to Williams.
Superintendent of the Evahom mine, J. E. Mitchell has been her all week
hauling another shipment of ore from his mine in Mineral Park district.
100 Years Ago
April 4,
1908
Recorder Thomas McNeely came in from his copper mine near Mineral Park
Tuesday last... He reports that every day’s work on the mine shows more
and better ore.
Will Clack is in town from the Little Chief mine, where he and Barney
Perkins have been leasing.
This week Thomas Devine took over the Hotel Beale bar and will conduct
it in connection with the hotel. John Mulligan retires from this
dispensary after more than ten years active service.
At last the alley between 4th and 5th Streets and Front and Beale is to
be opened up. W. J. Prout has given orders to remove barns and
outbuildings that have long obstructed this street.
The Goldroad Red Top Mining Company offers a block of development stock
to subscribers at 5 cents per share. The mine is on the east end of the
great lode and has an excellent showing in the outcrop.
April 11, 1908
Fred Stull and Henry Lovin are getting splendid ore on their lease on
the Lucky Boy mine at Chloride.
E. M. Carrow received half a dozen naval orange trees which have been
sent to the ranch on Big Sandy.
The republican committee met at the courthouse and elected Senator J.
E. Perry and Eli Hilty as delegates to the republican territorial
convention. Taft was endorsed as the choice of the committee for
President.
W. E. Moroney had his first case in court and won it. This is a good
startoff for a young attorney.
April 18, 1908
A. L. McKesson started up his mill, on the Holy Moses mine, and reports
that it worked to perfection. The only drawback was lack of water, the
pipes being too small to supply the battery with the necessary power to
carry the pulp over the plates. The experimental run shows the ores
values to be higher than anticipated.
Frank Tofte is working on his L & M. mines near Sherum summit, and
believes he has one of the best properties in that whole section. The
vein is very large and values are exceptionally good.
April 25, 1908
The town of Yucca is growing. There is one hotel, two saloons, one
general merchandise store, one restaurant, blacksmith shop and general
forwarding business.
The little town is doing a big business being the supply point for
Cedar, Signal, McCracken and Bill William Fork sections.
A forty horse power touring car was received for use of the McCracken
company between Yucca and the mines. The machine is capable of making
fifty miles an hour. This is the first large machine ever brought to
Mohave County and its work on the roads will be watched with some
interest.
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