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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1916
Page
2
The Farm and Home writer advises keeping gathered nuts moist until germination. To preserve vitality, stratify by layering moist sand and nuts in a box, ensuring they do not touch. Store in a cellar or buried. plant in spring in the nursery row or final location.
Amos Brothers of San Bernardino and associates lease 14 claims in the Silver Lake district to John W Sharp and associates of Los Angeles for 3000 dollars while placing a bond. Claims eight miles from Silver Lake show silver and lead ore with about 15000 dollars in prior development. Shipments set to begin after camp and development work as Salt Lake becomes ore treatment center.
Bert C. Smith sues Madeline F. Stearns in San Bernardino Superior Court to establish in form of a court order that Smith granted right and title to five mining claims near Riggs Station on the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad as security held in trust. He alleges a $11,100 loan, a $9,000 balance due next year, and that the new contract with James M. Best and Frank Riggs was executed in Stearns’s name. The matter involves tale mines with substantial development and a mill erected.
At the Yellow Aster Mine in Randsburg a heated annual election in May pits two strong factions claiming victory. The famous producer notes total output of about 8 million dollars, underscoring the mine’s significance and ongoing contest for control.
Carrie L. Johnston sues Mohawk Herald Leasing and Mines company in superior court claiming rights to valuable Twenty-Nine Palms district mines. The mining concern plans to contest the suit, with the property described as highly valuable and worth far above the note involved.
George B. Landen and associates sue J. E. Bebee and others in the Atolia district claiming thousands of dollars in mining interests. Landen says armed men ousted him from his property and accuses high graders of violating lease terms and selling ore without consent.
Charles G Reeder seeks information on a dry placer machine and the placer field in the district. George Branch reports gold samples with silver and bismuth from the forty five foot level. Dr J S Mason and Jack Thoma secured a lease in Atolia and report a promising tungsten ledge and potential stake.
Judge Root and Mrs. Root drove the first car across the Needles Bridge as an invitation from the construction engineer. The bridge, funded by government and state money, is free to all and not tolled. A March dedication is planned with visitors from San Bernardino and Los Angeles, boosting the National Old Trails Highway into town.
A reflective poem from the St Louis Globe-Democrat envisions aging with grace. The speaker meets a gray haired thrifty woman and imagines how radiance comes from care, hard work, and family love, wishing life could extend to fifty for all.
A concise fragment poem describes a purple cloud over a town at dawn with bare trees resembling masts, a gold sky, and snow like furled sails. The speaker imagines Earth as a ship tied to a sea of space, moving through the cosmic maritime scene.
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