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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1912
Page
3
The Oro Grande report notes the Bennette ranch cutting its first day while improvements proceed at the Decrow hotel and a new dining room serves first class meals. River ranches promise their best fruit season yet despite minor weather. W H Robinson plans several carloads of desert beef to market.
Victorville reports H P Deppe receives a new pump for his ranch while C O Thompson adds more well casing. Dr Hl Sweet gets a new engine and pump. Eastbound fruit trees arrive for Dr Garcelon. O B Nair awaits shade trees for his northwest ranch. C A Smith plans ranch improvements and holds a carload of lumber. A dance at Victorville hall is set for next Saturday with Mrs Goodwin Miss McNeill and Miss Kellar providing music. The town public freight depot is to be enlarged again amid growth. A Santa Fe right of way stake west of the bridge east of town notes an elevation just over 3700 feet.
Dr A F Wagner of Pasadena and W W Blake of Altoona Pa show interest in Hinkley lands while Oakes Leoni test Wim berly well with a new pump. J K Evans works on a new well for J W Adams and Wm H Hass of Chino surveys his Section 23 property. A party chaperoned by Mrs Gibbs at Miss Hogan s residence honors Miss Laurita Kimball with marshmallow toast ice cream cake and games as attendees include Gibbs Bulen Axtell Harlow Kimball Hogan Richardson Patton Rich Manley Stanley Gibbs and W E Evans Barstow.
A forfeiture notice dated February 23 1912 warns Everett B Thomas and Charles A Griffen officers of Empire Smelting and Mining Co to vacate a placer claim located one mile north of Silver Lake San Bernardino County California within sixty days. Locator R Y Williams signs from Silver Lake California with first publication Feb 23 1912.
Notice is given that William H. Honnells of Sawtelle California has filed for Final Proof to establish a Desert Land Entry claim No 05380 in Section 32 Township 5 North Range 2 West Merid ian before the Register and Receiver United States Land Office Los Angeles California on June 19 1912 at 10 a m Witnesses: Samuel M. Cook Abraham L. Martin Walter W White James W Rumburg. FRANK BUREN Register First pub May 17 Last pub June 14
A note urges readers to send a dollar to the printer for six months of desert news coverage. The item emphasizes affordable access and steady delivery of local and regional reporting. It reflects a period practice of prepaying for newspaper service.
Miss May Chapman acts as postmistress in Daggett Long Beach. Henderson moves to a new bungalow. Lingenfelder visits Fresno friends. Wm Burt reports a fine flock of young turkeys. Settlers surge around Daggett. Ackerman sold river bottom ranch to Shooks and tours Bear Valley. Bercham’s miners work Calico property. A big low grade gold prospect. Hart and Lamantain sunk a potash well at Scott Sid ing. Potash claims taken by several parties.
Silver Lake Myrick Bros pursue diamond prospecting in Death Valley while Colorado Fuel and Iron Co agents visit Silver Lake to inspect more mines with an eye toward acquiring them.
Danby dope agents of Colorado Fuel and Iron Co inspect iron deposits at Newberry and Cadiz owned by W. W. Jones. Thomas Schofield offers a Danby marble quarry for sale along with a nearly new 5 h.p. gasoline engine. Stem Winder and others run mines near Danby while a shaft on Andy Woods property at Clipper Mountain will be sunk 100 ft.
Eight horsepower engine nearly new for sale. Contact Thos Schofield Danby California for details.
The Board of Directors levied assessment No 51 of one cent per share on the capital stock payable to D F Wilson Secretary at room 403 Germain Building Los Angeles. Unpaid shares after April 30 1912 will be delinquent and sold at public auction on May 21 1912 at 8 pm to cover the delinquent assessment costs. First publication March 22 1912.
The delinquency of the above assessment is postponed until May 21, 1912 and the sale of delinquent stock is postponed to June 11, 1912 at the place and hour specified in the notice. D. F. Wilson, Secretary.
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