More Money Invested Than Ever Before
Randsburg August 3. The Bray and Bisbee shaft now below 300 feet and the Coyote shaft to 460 feet signal big money. $300,000 is held in escrow ready to release when the ore bodies in the Coyote and Bray shafts open. North Rand Silver Mining Co plans rapid development within sixty days with investors Kelly Williams Staatz Quackenbush. Ore assays run 60 to 500 ounces silver with notable gold. San Fernando based financiers A. N. Sanford & Co will handle financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Wray
Randsburg
Rand
Windy
Waltman
Coyote
Bray
North Rand Silver Mining Company
John W. Kelly
W Hampton Williams
Dave Staatz
Wm. J. Quackenbush
A. N. Sanford & Co
Los Angeles
Long Beach
California
Rocky Mountains
Kelly Mine
Sill & Grady
Yellow Astor
Gola
Nicholson
Bobh Gunderson
Otterman
Frank Stokes
Gunderson & Otterson
Barstow Boys Seek Home Discharge from Navy
Barstow youths Allen and Willie Dodson, serving in the UC Navy in Honolulu, request discharge to return home due to homesickness. A Navy order aims to include those enlisted before enlistments closed, and the Barstow family appeals to be part of the homeward move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd
Santa Fe
Allen
Willie Dodson
Honolulu
UC. 8
Navy Service
Barstow
United States
Hotel Reopen Near September In Dillingham Building
The Dillingham building nears completion as the hotel reopens around September. The White drug store will gain a new front with two large show windows. E. J. Miller plans thirty rooms at the Melrose old stand ready for business by month’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillingham
White Drug Store
E. J. Miller
Melrose
County Hospital Opens Nursing Class For 1921
Nurses at County Hospital announce a new class of student nurses starting September 1 1921. Enrollment is now in progress as the curriculum is described as attractive and well worth consideration for young women seeking training in nursing.
Salt Lake Bell given to Strawberry Flat for religious services
The bell from the first Salt Lake locomotive to cross the country has been presented to Strawberry Flat management for calling locals to religious services. Engineer Soules family, long in Bakersfield, has returned to Barstow this week.
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Salt Lake
Strawberry Flat
Soules
Bakersfield
Barstow
Reasons Given For Reduction in Forces by Railroads
The article argues railroad job cuts stem from auto truck shipping. It notes June 1920 had 103,954 freight cars in shortage, while June this year shows a surplus of 394,000 idle cars. The Auto Club of Southern California criticizes highway officials for thin roadbeds and calls for banning heavy trucks to protect roads and rail economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Automobile Club of
Southern
California
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
University of California Announces 1355 Courses for Next Year
The University of California plans 1355 courses across 30 departments for next year in 15 languages, covering nearly all knowledge fields. The Announcement of Courses costs 30 cents and can be requested from the Mailing Division of the President's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of California
President’s Office
Elmer Harlow Killed in Water Well Collapse
Elmer Harlow of Water died Tuesday morning when a well he worked in caved in burying him under fifteen feet of sand. Four hours of rescue efforts failed to free him as a timber crushed his chest. The coroner held an inquest and Riverside undertaker prepared the body for burial in Riverside Thursday. He was a widower with seven children and brother of D. M. Harlow of Water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. R. MacCall
Randsburg
San Francisco
Santa Fe
James Pliison
Elmer Harlow
Riverside
Ile
D. M. Harlow
Water
Superior Valley praised by visitors near Barstow
Miss Rosella Holmes of Columbus Ohio praises Superior Valley climate and soil during her homestead visit with the Hawthorn family. The Hawthorns plan locust windbreaks, plant fruit trees, run a 5850 gallon reservoir pump, and fence ten acres. Sadie Pence serves as postmaster at Crufts with A DeGroff delivering mail while Hopkinson works on the Dillingham building in Barstow.
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Superior Valley
Barstow
Superior
Rosella Holmes
Columus, O
Hawthorn
Sadie Pence
Crufts
A. DeGroff
Hopkinson
Dillingham
Millions Invested in Oil Firms Formed in June
The United States saw 65 new oil companies organized in June with a total authorized capitalization of 52.62 million dollars, the smallest monthly total since February 1919 and under the 100 million mark for the first time in two years. Compared with May 1921’s 102 firms and 112.3 million dollars, and June 1920’s 132 firms at 161.28 million, the first half of 1921 totals 545 new firms and 512.28 million in capitalization, versus 1,900 firms and 1.5427 billion in the same period of 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Madera District Approves Record Irrigation Bond Plan
The Madera Irrigation District voted on July 26 for a monumental California project. A $28,000,000 bond would build a San Joaquin River dam 4200 feet long and 220 feet high, reshaping Millerton into a large artificial lake one mile wide and 18 miles long over a three year construction period.
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Madera Irrigation District
California
San Joaquin River
Millerton
Fresno County
Road project official in LA closes right of way talks
Paved road supervisor Crain spent Wednesday and Thursday in Los Angeles closing up affairs for the Summit to Victorville state highway right of way. Bids for the work will be advertised within a few days by the California Highway Commission. The commission promised an early summer final survey of the Victorville Barstow road, but surveyors have not yet arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crain
Los Angeles
Summit
Victorville
California Highway Commission
Commission
Victorville-Barstow
Nicholson Leaves For Victorville to Open Grocery
I L Nicholson, long in Barstow general merchandise, has leased the corner room in the Hotel Stewart building and will open a grocery once fixtures arrive and plans are settled. The vacated Nicholson store room will be remodeled for an up to date restaurant. If caterers announce their service the town will likely favor them with patronage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Nicholson
Barstow
New State Laws Enacted By Last Legislature
The laws include leasing state oil and mineral lands, creating separate schools for Japanese, banning under 18 changes, prohibiting bribes and throwing games in baseball, ending secret-file divorce actions, designating Armistice Day as a holiday, fixing bread measures at 16 and 24 ounces, banning dogs at large with livestock damages, and allocating 200000 dollars for water power surveys. Secret-file actions now limited to attachments and indictments until arrests.
Rival to Kelly Mine Found Near Needles California
A new silver find 14 miles southwest of Needles is touted as rivaling the Kelly mine at Rand. Four ledges show 14 inches to 513 feet of surface ore with assays of 78 cents per ounce silver and 5.86 dollars per ounce gold. Locators include E. Kohlhauer S. A. Brown A Kohlhauer M A Dulgar. Work is planned late October with Bakersfield financiers backing. adjoining claims Hamilton Silver Ledge and Blue Bird show high grade ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Bernardino
California Rand
Kelly
Needles
Kohlhauer
S. A. Brown
A. Kohlhauer
M. A. Dulgar
Randsburg
Faber Bros
Eureka
Eagle
Bakersfield
Hamilton Silver Ledge
Blue Bird
Randsbury Diamond Drill Case in Court in San Bernardino
In San Bernardino on August 2, lawyers for the California Rand Silver mining Company sought a three day continuance to amass more evidence and adjusted surveys for a permanent injunction in the Diamond Drill case. Judge Street admitted a map of claims and a further continuance till August 5 was set for final argument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Bernardino
Borton & Anderson
California Rand (Kelly) Silver Mining Company
Department 2
Superior Court of San Bernardino Co
J. 4. Street
International Diamond Drill Co
Barton
Curtis
Mrs Lillian Jones Leads of San Bernardino Trip to Oil Fields
Mrs Lillian Jones drove to Banning and the Painted Hills oil fields Sunday in a Ford sedan. She was accompanied by Mrs J W Beekman of San Bernardino and Mr Rodman on the excursion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Jones
Banning
Painted Hills
Santa Fe Railway Reports 1920 Finances and Surplus
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reports for 1920 a total operating revenue of 178 million 475 thousand 780 47, operating expenses 155 million 068 thousand 482 14, yielding a net operating revenue of 23 million 597 thousand 298 35. Miscellaneous non operating revenue 39 million 502 thousand 588 74. Interest rent taxes and other deductions 25 million 293 thousand 58. The year net operating income stands at 37 million 608 thousand 793 71. Beginning surplus 65 million 055 thousand 969. Miscellaneous additions to surplus 1 million 308 thousand 087 92 and miscellaneous deductions 186 thousand 128 16. Dividends declared during the year 19 million 649 thousand 795, leaving year end surplus 84 million 115 thousand 355 95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Railroad Commission
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Salt Lake Bell
Bear Valley
Needies
Randsbury
Santa Fe R. R
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