Arizona State Miner, 1919-09-12

For several weeks carload upon carload of machinery, lumber and supplies have been arriving here for the Dragon Mining company, which is spending thousands of dollars in new equipment and installation at their mine, located about eight miles east of Wickenburg. Mr. H. Hertz, a prominent realty man of Los Angeles, was in the city on last Friday enroute to Kansas City, and from him it was learned that the new activity at the mine in includes - cludes includes installation of a new Cameron sinking pump, compressor and gen generator - erator generator for electricity which is to be the performing energy for light, heat and power for both mill and mine. The new mill equipped includes a large Prolaski crusher, roll mill, with classifier and agitator, amalgamating table, Wilfley and Deistrom concen concentrators, - trators, concentrators, a -slimer and rougher, etc., ail set in cement foundations. The mill occupies a space of Gox9o feet and is about completed. The com company - pany company were fortunate in developing water sufficient to run the mill and all* camp purposes, including restau restaurant - rant restaurant building, dwellings for miners, superintendent's house and a thor thoroughly - oughly thoroughly equipped assay house. It is planned to start the mill in inside - side inside of two weeks on ore that has a high percentage of venadium with a good showing of gold and silver val values. - ues. values. The company has spent three and a half years in development of this property and has done over 1800 feet of tunnel, crosscuts and drifting, besides shaft work. The shaft, a substantial double-compartment one, is down 260 feet which will be continued down to 1,000 feet, for which a new engine and hoist have been added, besides the compressor' and six machine drills, which full facilitate work after modern mining methods. The promoters of this new mining activity are mostly all - Los Angeles investors headed by James G. Scar Scarborough, - borough, Scarborough, a prominent attorney of that city; Felix L. LaForce, a re retired - tired retired business man of Kansas City; Herman Hertz, real estate dealer of Los Angeles, and Harry N. Watson, former director of the Continental National bank of Los Angeles. Mr. H. L. Deitcher, one of the original owners of the Dragon, will. still re remain - main remain as general manager and direct directing - ing directing head of affairs at the mine and mill. > WICKENBURG OIL LANDS IN DEMAND A steady accumulation of oil lands in and about this locality has been going on for some time. Kellis,. Montgomery & Bowsher are having calls nearly every few days from people interested in reaping the benefit of new discoveries in oil ana its potential possibilities. The big bigmovement - movement bigmovement has started and because .oil shows the largest and mosv profitable returns of any invest investments, - ments, investments, with a minimum of risk, the demand is bound to increase. Most of the new capital at present is from Phoenix where the Flores com company - pany company have started the ball a-rolling; but there are others from different states, especially California, who are stimulating research of oil because of the desperately low and acute demand for this product because of the shortage forecast by new and increased industrial activity. According to predictions of know knowing - ing knowing ones in the business, the Wick Wickenburg - enburg Wickenburg oil zone enjoys the distinction of being the most popular of any ot the western untried and undeveloped fields. There is an air of'confidence apparent among local promoters that insures belief in successful promo promotion. - tion. promotion. The Wickenburg field is strongly recommended for the promotion of small home companies that will foster the enterprises by insuring investors that their money will be honestly expended for development work in an endeavor to reach the oil sands that means so much to the future of the state as well as profits to the successful promoters should they be fortunate enough to strike the coveted product. Only a short time will elapse before other and larger financed concerns will be seeking entry into the new field in an endeavor to acquire and "corner" choice locations by getting a pick of the lands adjacent to the transpor transportation - tation transportation routes and main arteries of travel and traffic. Bolshevics want to share our joys, but not our sorrows.

Why the New Building Should the Present Site. and flowers can be grown which would very much beautify the school grounds and in a short time the trees would give the shade that is needeu in Wickenburg at the beginning and ending of each school term, triotic Californian. r Some offer objections to this site , because it will face on two streets or roads, and the duer would be > stiffling and the children would be endangered by passing autos.' Every school of importance that ± can call to mind in the Salt River valley is faping one or more streets or roads and they have 50 autos passing there to where we have one. Our roads abe of a hard formation ! and they don't make much dust, any anyway. - way. anyway. Speaking of danger for the chil chil| - | chil| dren. There isn't one-tenrn as much, ! danger from the autos as there j would be from railroad trains if three-fourths of the children have to cross the tracks four times daily io> go on the hill to school. Just think of it. If the school is voted to go on the hill we will marcn about 75 children across the tracks twice dur during - ing during the noon hour while one or more freights are switching back and forth on the tracks. And most of Lie children will be little tots, too. Here is REAL DANGER, not imaginary. Many of the advocates of the hilt i site have no little children to cro.- i the tracks either way and they can't get the view that we parents nave who have little'tots from 6 to 10 years old. Now to the economical part of this . J school house business. We are over head and heels in debt now on road, eizy, county, state and national bonds and we have just voted to spend $23,000 on the im provemcnt of our school facilities, in the main to build a new school house and buy and improve more grounds and in general to get more school apparatus. I did not oppose the bond issue for this purpose. The fact is I supported it anjd if there is any one public thing I believe in, n is more and better schools. But i do not believe in spending money, public money, that we bave to pay payback - back payback with our earned dollars, unwisely or uneconomical]?/. Now, I think to pay $2,750 for a block of land on the hill for a new school site, n*t nearly so large, nor nearly so level, or as convenient to the majority of the- children, as the one we now have with $1,200 spent for adjoining' land, would be both unwise and uneconomical. We now have a large block of land and a good small 'school house and it seems to me very unwise to go up on the hill and spend good, hard earned cash, just because some somebody - body somebody can be found to take the money. I don't blame the people up there who have lots to sell, but we can get more for a doirar at Hie old site, and as I have said before,'it is more conveniently located for both patrons and children. What we really need is a modern school building near the old one and modern equipment both in and out of the buildings. The more we put in the new site arid new building the less' we will have for school apparatus. If we should run short on money it migh* be hard to float another bond issue,- as Old High Cost of Living is soaring now and more bonds and expenses means he will still go higher. Now I have presented this issue in about the way several of us look av it and we confidently hope that a majority of the electors will see it in j the same light September 20 ana I vote to keep the school where it is, | but if you don't, and vote to move the school, I will be sorry for all of us, but will not hold malice on this score and will get in behind the trustees and do my little part to f make Wickenburg schools a shining success. Respectfully, J. R. BARNETTE. It now looks like the proposal of the city of Phoenix to bring in a carload of Surplus army food for the poor classes, was only an adroit mov« i to prevent the local public from get getting - ting getting their supplies from Uncle Sam I through the post office. Assessed valuation of merchandise stocks in Arizona was 2.6 in 1913 and 2.66 in 1918. Other property valuations in same time increased , over 9 per cent. "Who iss der rea reason - son reason for dot?" ; Vacation is over and our popula population - tion population is returning.

point near a road sign a: the south southwest - west southwest corner of Verduga's fence o * North Second street which is known as lot 14, block 5, Wickenburg au audition, - dition, audition, then running northwest alone aloneeast - east aloneeast line of Prescott road 214 feet to a stake; thence north 280'feet to towards - wards towards Sauls wash to a stake; thence east 260 feet to a stake; thence south 360 feet to a stake on North Second street; thence 113 feet to the place of beginning. This will give us a frontage of 113 feet on North Sec Second - ond Second street and 214 feet frontage on Tegener street on the Prescott road This plot of land is ideally and centrally located for a school site healthful, clean, sanitary and with i high water pressure, which is a great advantage in case of fire. If the voters will choose this place to put the new proposed buildings they will make no mistake. Remem Remember - ber Remember that your enlarged school district extends two miles above town ana there are several children up that way. This site will be convenient for the vast majority because three threefourths - fourths threefourths of the school children live on this side of the railroad. It will be more representative of tlie tax taxable - able taxable property, as four-fifths of the taxable property is on this side of the track and the balance is likely to grow more so, as the farms and ranches are developed along the river. The new building can be admir admirably - ably admirably placed in front and to the east of the old one on this site and have plenty of room in the front yard for grass, trees and flowers, the growth and culture of which should be en encouraged - couraged encouraged by the school patrons. On this plot of land in the rear of the buildings there will be ample room for play grounds, gymns and a baseball diamond. The roads by this liite are hard and very little dust flies. Mr. Fister's dairy is some 800 feet away, and is not a disadvantage. But a distinct advantage is the approxi approximate - mate approximate difference of £6,500 which might be saved by retaining the present site. With S2OO spent for woven wire,* posts and gates, this whole block can .be fenced. When fenced trees, grass

few months of fall and winter is utilized for grazing by a few stock and sheep men. / Mr. Booth's high opinion has been corroborated by other expert ge geologists, - ologists, geologists, which is considered incon incontrovertible - trovertible incontrovertible evidence petroleum exists in this locality. This conclu conclusion - sion conclusion is quite natural, seeing that Phoenix promoters have never been considered very enthusiastic on any anything - thing anything except cotton and canteloupes; in fact, it is an old axium that to do business in Phoenix, the pro- must have a "cinch" propo proposition - sition proposition akin to marked cards in a poker game. But the actual possi possibilities - bilities possibilities of the Home and Flores locations are almost beyond ordinary comprehension in dollars and cqnts. The Flores company . represents 128 Phoenix investors who were pledged to an expenditure of over S4OO each; the Home company rep represents - resents represents a substantial concern yanking equally as high and it only remains to send a drill down into the sands which all geological deductions seem to demonstrate as existing in this locality and only waiting to be tapped. HOW THE GOVERNMENT WAS 'ROBBED Our readers will be delighted to learn that the Standard Oil com company - pany company is doing well. During the last seven years, according to its own statement, it has earned $454,589,- 139; has paid out in dividends $177,- 008,940, and has piled up more thap a billion in reserve cash. You ask yourself, "How did the share owners have enough self-con self-control - trol self-control to leave so much money in the company instead of taking it out in dividends?" And you answer, "Per "Perhaps - haps "Perhaps they thought it wiser to post postpone - pone postpone the dividend distribution unfil well after the war, when the income tax shall have gone down." If the billion of reserves had been distrib distributed - uted distributed to stockholders while the war was on, the government would have taken about seven hundred millions of the money in taxes. You can readily understand what good busi business - ness business men the Standard Oil people are.

tance is short and soon over. Like Mr. Shannon, most all travelers agree that the Wickenburgj Wenden. Blythe and Mecca is the only road for a highway. Even if the state and federal road 'commission decides build the route via Buckeye and Grla Bend, most of the traveling public will eventually come via this route and it is oply a matter of time that the popular route to and from California will be through this city when coming from points east and south. LOST ON THE YUMA DESERT Searching parties from the New King of Arizona and the North Star mines have been scouring the desert in the northeastern section of Yuma county since last Tuesday looking for August prospector, who has been missing' August 18, when he left Polamas in his auto automobile - mobile automobile with a v supply of provisions and started for the New King of Arizona mine. His auto was found broken' on the highway 32 miles east of the mine. The searching party followed Grski's tracks back over the high highway - way highway to within three miles of the New King mine. Here they found the shoes, hat, belt, pipe and canteen of the missing man. His tracks were followed for a short distance from that place over the desert and then lost. The parties have continued the search, but n ff trace of Grski has been found. It is believed that Grski became crazed from thirst and the heat and has wandered into the desert and died and his body lies buried under the shifting sands. - Yuma Sun. Read the School Election notice elsewhere in the advertising columns and make up your mind to vote for the best site on which to locate a permanent school building which shall have capacity to take care of the added requirements that will be needed for at least a few years to come. Let your choice fall upon the location that will reflect the best interests of the community as a growing city with high-class educa educational - tional educational facilities.

WICKENBURG OIL ERA Incontrovertible Evidence That Oil Exists Here "Dos" Bowshter of Kellis, Mont Montgomery - gomery Montgomery & Bowsher, realty dealers and oil promoters of this city, went to Prescott Wednesday, accompanied by G. W. Marlow, of the Flores Oil company from Phoenix. It is under understood - stood understood that a united oil men's effort will be made in furtherance of im immediate - mediate immediate development of what may reasonably be expected to turn out one of the largest oil fields in the United States. The tract of oil lands represented by these two men cover an area many miles square, all tributary to Wickenburg and includes a complete anticline, closed in on three sides conforming to a complete oil struc structure. - ture. structure. Careful geological observations have confirmed this zone as an ideal one for oil possibilities equal to, if not, greater than the famous oil fields of Mexico. One well-known engineer of oil experience expresses the opinion that the whole Wickenburg district ex extending - tending extending westerly Hot Springs £o the Colorado river, overspreads riches in oil lying at a depth of 2,100 to 2,7o<\feet. To prove this a comprehensive drilling campaign is to be made to test the lands held by the Flores and Home Oil companies, and the mission to Prescott is to arrange for a thorough test of the land held by the two companies. The outcome may be the neucleus for a j great oil producing company amply financed and able to carry out the j plans already formed to completion, j If oil predictions are realized, it will be of value to estimate the i potentialities of this zone, which up to now hits been considered only fit for desert ranges, where during a 1

J. R. Barnette's Views As To Be Erected On Wickenburg, Ariz., Sept. 10, 1919. Editor Arizona State Miner. Dear Sir: I wish to state my po position - sition position and that of many others on the school site election that is sched scheduled - uled scheduled to take place September 20 in this school district. I shall try to be brief, but there is a lot to say on this very impor important - tant important question before the people of Wickenburg. I believe it is for the best interests of the largest number of the patrons of the school and by far the largest number of the children that attend the school, both from an economic, convenient and social point of view for the school to remain where it is. Some of these reasons I will at attempt - tempt attempt to set forth in a few brief paragraphs. But first let us have a description of the size, location and boundaries of the present school sit£ with the proposed new auditions of land. We now have a plot of land where the school house stands 200x200 feet and in addition to this the schoo* trustees have an option on Hie Ver Verduga - duga Verduga property, in front of the pres present - ent present school property, and two lots from ( Mr. Y. Garcia, laying north an - east of our school. In addition to this the city council will be askea to close from the public two unim unimportant - portant unimportant alleys and give trie grounu embraced therein to the scnooi dis district. - trict. district. This will give us a solid pioc of ground comparatively* level con containing - taining containing more than 95,000 square fee: and fronting on two streets, which better described by beginning at a

TRUCK GARDENING SHOWS A PROFIT A. J. Kellis, who raises mammoth pumpkins and other garden truck quite successfully around here, is authority backed by innumerable residents of Wickenburg and vicin vicinity, - ity, vicinity, that truck gardening anywhere near this vicinity can be made very profitable; so the fellow who can't find a chance to get in on the oil boom may brush up a bit on truck farming. The editor of The State Miner, in a small way has raised water melons and cantaloupes by seeds taken from this year's crop and bought right here in Wicken Wickenburg. - burg. Wickenburg. Potatoes, cabbage, beets, and most all garden produce can be cul cultivated - tivated cultivated -successfully right here at ho?he without going to Phoenix or Los Angeles for such eatables. TO LOS ANGELES AND BACK BY AUTO C. M. Shannon returned from an auto trip to Los Angeles on Monday evening. He brought his wife and daughter with him from the Angel city whither they had been to spend a short vacation. The trip was made via Wenden, Ehrenburg, Mecca and Banning, returning the same day. Mr. Shannon reports that the road was not bad, there being a stretch of road between Mecca and Ehren Ehrenburg - burg Ehrenburg that is quite sandy, but ne negotiable - gotiable negotiable under ordinary weather con conditions. - ditions. conditions. This side of the ferry across the Colorado river, there is a stretch of sandy road -that is considered the worst of the whole trip, but the dis-