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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1910
Page
2
A desert plea highlights the need for warning signs on roads and near springs. The text notes signs can save many lives each year but heat delays their erection, foretelling signs forgotten as cooler weather returns and skulls loom in the desert discourse.
Las Vegas celebrated the first anniversary of Clark County birth as a new, debt free county with a 3000 population. Residents value the new county government and oppose rejoining Lincoln County, noting Clark County as their nearest neighbor to the east.
J L Burks of Highlands leases the E M Howe ranch north of Barstow and cuts a second crop of alfalfa. He milks 12 to 15 cows for Barstow trade while J Montijo delivers the milk. A melon field is expected to supply the local market by August 1. A two engine pumping plant draws water from a 26 foot dug well for irrigation.
Supervisors act as Board of Equalization in San Bernardino. Residents in the eastern county complain unequal taxes via distance to county seat. A mobile system to cart the books is suggested, with Barstow proposed as a possible county seat if division occurs.
Barstow residents offered a six month subscription to the Barstow Printer for one dollar. The deal promises ongoing local news coverage and updates delivered to subscribers.
L A Desmond, shown in a county affairs portrait, is a Republican candidate for County Tax Collector a post he currently holds. He is deemed competent with fifteen years of railroad and telegraph service prior to public service.
Arthur Woode of Leastalk praises the Barstow Printer while wishing for January snow to cool things. Porter operates a cyanide tailings plant on the Campbell property between Lea stalk and Barnwell. The Kewanee Camp shows well. H M Banfield receives a carload of wire and plans hundreds of acres of wheat for hay and thousands of eucalyptus trees.
The old fashioned Fourth of July celebration at Hinkley drew about 70 people to the cottonwood grove near the depot for a family picnic. Lively games included swings and baseball with Miss Poppendick cited as the top woman batter. Local residents Miss Sherman Miss Parks and others contributed to a day of shaded recreation and friendly competition.
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