Bear Valley Dam Fifty Years Ago and Today
Southern California led in engineering, tracing Bear Valley’s original dam built 50 years ago with 300 feet length and 60 feet height, using 1600 barrels of cement hauled 100 miles by four horses. The Lake Arrowhead dam emerged as a modern earth filled structure, 660 feet long and 184 feet high with a concrete core, requiring over a million cubic inches of fill and eight horse teams to haul cement 50 miles.
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Bean Valley
Lake Arrowhead
California
Supreme Transportation Unit
Supreme Transportation Unit declares American railroads superior in transport service and cost under free competition. Water and highway rivals have appeared but railroads repeatedly answer with better service and adjusted routing, remaining the nation’s supreme transport unit per Industrial News Bureau.
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America
Industrial News Bureau
Whitlow Departs Needles for Barstow in Transfer
Needles expresses regret over C. A. Whitlow's transfer to Barstow with the sentiment that calls must be followed. J. T. Maxey takes Whitlow’s place as acting agent at Kingman now based in Needles, stepping into the vacancy.
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Needles
C. A. Whitlow
Barstow
J. T. Maxey
Kingman
Mr. Whitlow
Needles Nuggett
233 Elected to 33rd in KCCH honors list
Recap of the 1923 Supreme Council session shows 233 Knights Commander elected to receive the Thirty third and last Degree of the Scottish Rite. Grand Crosses awarded to three officers: Charles S Lobingier, R. Simpson, and Edwin Carmi Hopkins for the 1923 honors.
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Supreme Council
Court of Honour
Charles 8. Lobingier
China
Shanghai
United States
Manila
R. & Simpson
Charlotte
N. C
Southern Railway System
Edwin Carmi Hopkins
Sacramento
Calif
Barstow Printer Seeks Readers for Mojave District
The Barstow Printer receives weekly request mail from across the nation for sample copies and district literature. Mrs E Mack of Chicago and H D Chadwick of Jacksonville Florida inquire for two copies, with others from Santa Anna and San Diego asking for Barstow materials. The paper aims to boost the Mojave River Valley and plans a four color Christmas number with local articles. Mrs C E Green visited Los Angeles to see old school chum Mrs Fred Lake.
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Barstow
United States
E. Mack
Chicago
H. D. Chadwick
Jacksonville
Florida
W. M. McCoy
Santa Anna
H. A. Appleton
San Diego
Mojave River
C. E. Green
Los Angeles
Fred Lake
Wall Street eyes San Bernardino County mines
San Bernardino Sun reports Wall Street investor G M Colvocor, head of Southwest Metals Smelters in Arizona, may back gold silver and copper mining here. If his two week district visit impresses, local plants and shipments to processing centers will be pursued, prompting a county reception by the Chamber of Commerce.
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San Bernardino
Kennedy
Sam Bernardino County
Colvocorcasses
It’s a Small World After All Copper Drives European Industry
The electrical industry dominates Europe today and relies on copper. American workers benefit as European growth fuels electrical development, mining, and metal production, boosting payrolls across the industry and related manufacturing sectors.
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Europe
Subsidy prompt for railroad land grants and highway aid
Nevada Highway News comments on the Land Grant of 1864 giving about 40 million acres to the Northern Pacific Railway and notes total railroad land gifts reaching 158,293,736 acres valued at over a billion dollars. It argues federal highway aid is modest by comparison and vital for transportation development benefiting citizens and communities.
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Northerm Pacific Railway
Congress
Nevada Highway News
Unappropriated Public Lands Reported by Interior Dept
The Interior Department lists vacant and unappropriated public lands totaling 184,716,546 acres, excluding national forests and reserved areas, with 129,666,234 surveyed. Nevada holds the largest block at 52,456,837 acres, while Louisiana has 10,701 acres. Arizona California and Oregon show sizable figures among the states named.
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Interior Department
United States
Oter
Nevada
Louisiana
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wyomng
Post cards from Mr and Mrs Witty in Hot Springs
Post cards from Mr and Mrs Witty report they are enjoying their vacation in the east. Mr Witty is identified as the Barstow Harvey House manager. The note places the couple at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.
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Witty
Hot Springs National Park
Ark
Barstow
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Bear Valley Dam
Bear Valley
A. Rizzardini
Barstow Produce Market
Supreme Transportation Unit
Billy Anderson
Anderson
Bakersfield
Mojave
Packard
S. P
Randsburg
Cal
Kent
Tiernan Telephone Building
Illinois
Wall Street
Concentrat
Ing
San
the Railway Company
The
Northern Pacific Company
Tion
G.H. Brown
Baldwin Park
Phong
E. L. Mudgett
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