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Kingman, AZ
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80 to 100 YEARS AGO
From the Mohave County Miner
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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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March 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
March 2, 1928
Work on the Twentieth Century mine at Chloride was started up with two
shifts of miners.
The Lead Pill group owned by Mr. McNeal and situated five miles south
of the old town of Signal, shipped a carload of lead ore from the
property and is shipping another carload. The ore carries 33 percent
lead and gold and silver.
Bruce Daniels spent Sunday and Monday with his parents at Mohave City,
Ariz.
March 9, 1928
Thirty-six Rotarians and guests journeyed to Fort Mohave where they
were the guests of Superintendent William Thackery.
Norman Chapman purchased a new Standard Six Nash sedan from L. M.
Wheeler, local Nash distributor.
March 16, 1928
John Neal, cattleman from Burro Creek, was in Kingman on business.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Carrarra, at the local hospital on last
Sunday night, a baby girl, whom they have named Helen Reid Carrarra. D.
A. Carrarra is a well known miner from Goldfields.
March 23, 1928
E. E. Wishon, justice of the peace from Oatman, was in Kingman Thursday.
Mrs. H. J. Hand, wife of the county treasurer, is expected to return to
her home in Kingman after a month visiting with friends and relatives
on the coast.
Fred Brown, cattleman from Ash Creek was a business visitor last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Petty, ranch owners from the Music Mountain
district, spent weekend in Kingman.
March 30, 1928
Clyde Bollinger, proprietor of the Mission camp ground at Oatman was in
Kingman.
Robert P. Morrow and Emery Morrow, ranchers from the Sandy, were in
Kingman on legal business.
100 Years Ago
February 29, 1908
Ed Williams is in Kingman from his ranch on the big Sandy. He reports
crops doing nicely all along the creek and the outlook for a big
harvest was never better.
Tarr & McComb broke ground for their new building on the lot east
of the Luthy.
Last Sunday, Andrew, the three year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Devine, fell from the rear porch of the Beale Hotel to the ground, a
distance of about thirteen feet, sustaining a fracture of the left arm
and sundry cuts and bruises. The little fellow is getting along nicely.
The Luthy block is completed and presents neat appearance. It is
one of the handsomest business blocks in the town and is a credit to
the owner and the town.
Owing to the prevalence of smallpox in nearly all the towns along the
railroad east of Ash Fork, the county board of health this week
concluded that the safest plan for the town and county was to put on
guards at Kingman and keep all hoboes and bums on the move.
March 7, 1908
George A. Bonelli is building an addition to his store building on
Fourth Street.
J. V. Coffey has put on a stage line between Yucca and the McCracken
mine.
J. C. Maddux and J. S. Kolar have formed a partnership in the
blacksmith business and will continue at the old stand, where Mr. Kolar
has been established more than twenty years.
March 14, 1908
T. S. O’Brien came up from the Rattan mine, in the Silver Creek section
to visit with his family.
There was born to the wife of W. F. Grounds Jr., at Milkweed ranch on
the 5th of this month, a baby girl.
March 21, 1908
Tom Wilson has purchased the Cedar-Yucca stage line from Thomas
Hamilton. He has reequipped the line and is now able to take in
passengers and light freight to all parts of the Cedar district on
quick time.
Gold Flat townsite, which has been laid out at the old Handcock siding,
is being cleared of rubbish and the streets and byways laid out Already
nine tents have been erected and lumber is coming in for a hotel.
March 28, 1908
John Lowman, superintendent of the Harvey dairy at Peach Springs, is
quite ill at the Harvey House.
Supervisor J. S. Kolar and J. B. Withers made a trip through the
Goldroad, Silver Creek and Vivian sections of the San Francisco mining
districts.
Henry Blevin was bitten on one finger by a rattlesnake, at Chloride. He
is suffering a little from the bite.
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February 1928 & 1908
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80 Years Ago
February 3, 1928
Tony Vrang and Charles Adams have been working along the outcrop of
veins in their Standard group, near the Katherine, and are finding
wonderful ore and high values.
J. H. Beauchamp moved last Tuesday into the Barney Ricca house.
Nat Greer of the Tarr, McComb and Ware Co., spent Tuesday in Valentine
on business.
G. J. Childs, former manager of the local Harvey House, stopped over in
Kingman for a short while.
Miss Alice McLain, who formerly ran a chicken ranch on Mrs. Emeline
Walker’s property on the outskirts of town, has sold out all her
chickens and is moving to Peach Springs, where she will take over the
management of the Osterman store.
February 10, 1928
Ray Briggs, recently of Chloride, moved into the house just vacated by
L. M. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler going to his newly completed home in the
Metcalfe addition.
The Kingman basketball squad showed their decided superiority over the
Valentine Indians when the Indians went down by the score of 45 to 11.
Fred Leonard, Justice of the Peace at Yucca was in Kingman on business
last Monday.
February 17, 1928
Clyde Cofer, cattleman at Wikieup, was a Kingman shopper last Thursday.
John A. Nelson, cattleman at Peach Springs, was called to Kingman last
Monday on business.
Mrs. L. R. Hall proprietor of the Beale Hotel was called to Flagstaff
during the first of the week.
February 24, 1928
Charles M. Moore of Nelson was a Kingman shopper last Tuesday.
Carl G. Krook, local attorney, left Kingman this morning to attend the
Bar Ass’n at Phoenix.
.Mrs. Robert Sullivan of Needles, arrived to play for the Firemen’s
ball. She was the guest of Mrs. Stanley George.
100 Years Ago
February 1, 1908
Work is progressing systematically on the Rainbow group of mines east
of Chloride. The property is under the management of H. L. McCarn, one
of the best mine manager in that section.
P. McCardell, the well known mining and civil engineer, returned from a
business trip to the Victor Gold mining company’s camp, near Vivian.
Henry Lovin returned from Los Angeles, where he went to purchase
billiard and pool tables and other furnishings for the Studley saloon
in the Luthy block.
Mrs. George S. Briggs is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Potts in Kingman.
Mrs. David Price has a circulating library at her home on Beale street.
Anyone wishing books to read can call and look the library over.
February 8, 1908
George W. Miller, the wealthy young cattleman of Lookout ranch, was in
Kingman, Wednesday last.
It is reported that G. W. Brown and company will soon erect a big mill
in the neighborhood of Boulder Springs. The manufacturers of the mill
claim it to be one of the most economical ever.
February 15, 1908
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Eshom, of Cienega ranch, are visiting in Kingman.
They recently sold the water rights at this ranch to the Palo Verde
mining company.
T. J. Grant came down from Hackberry and is placing on the records of
the county a large group of mines, which he and others recently located
in the Music Mountain section.
W. H. Hall came in from California and departed on the Chloride train
to his mines in the Weaver district.
February 22, 1908
W. F. Grounds was down from Hackberry getting assay results from his
mining claims in the Music Mountain section.
The Wallapai mountains are just now covered with the deepest snow
since the great snowfall in 1884. Every rain that has fallen in the
valleys this winter has produced a corresponding mass of snow in the
mountains.
H. G. Brenton and daughter came in from White Hills and are visiting
with friends in Kingman. Miss Brenton lived in Mineral Park when a
small child.
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