Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-02-11
WHITE HILLS, ,FAM0US0LD SILVER CAMP
 TO BE STARTED UP AGAIN SOON
Long Years of Litigation Finally Settled Senator Kee
 Will Be in Control of Property.

on the Grand Army of the Republic Mill Site. This mill was very success full from the start ,and ran constant ly for two years from the Tow grade ore' from the leasers dumps, and re jected ore' of these same Chloriders' various workings, while the high grade ore was shipped to the smelters. The heads in this mill are said to have averaged fifty ounces. The pro- duction of the camp before Moffat and Root bought it was very large, but no exact records can be obtained. But beginning with January first, 1894, until Moffat and Root Company sold out in April, 1896, we have a fairly correct estimate of the amount of ore shipped to the smelters, through the kindness of MT. Samuel Withers, who had charge of the ore buying for the Kingman Sampling works during that period. He estimates that during 27 months mentioned he bought two and a quarter million ounces of silver in the ore from White Hills alone. This does not include the bullion produced by the mill and that was shipped di- rect to the refinery by White Hills Mining Company, and has been esti- mated during the two years this mill ran, at an additional million ounces of silver, and this is probably fairly correct.
 : ."There were at the maximum more than five hundred men working on leases alone, in addition to the large number of miners employed by the company before the sale to the Eng fish Company. In March, 1896, an English Company, the White Hills Mining & Milling Company, bought the property for $1,750,000, and enter ed into possession April 1st, 1896, af- ter having previously given the leas- CTS ten days notice to quit. This ban ished more than five hundred prosper ous hustling ore hunters and ore pro- ducers from the camp at once.
 "Upon taking possession of the property the New Company sold the Grand Army Mill for junk and set about planning the present beautiful forty stamp mill, which cost $150, ,000. They constructed seven mile eight inch water pipe line to some springs guaranteed by a water witch, not withstanding there was already enough water in the various mines for the ten stamp mill and promise of more in depth. A reservoir of mil lion gallons was built to hold the water from the Witch Springs. The City of White Hills was provided with an up to date waterworks of the best kind. Twenty houses were construct ed, among them number of the best now standing. A complete telephone system was installed. These physical improvements cost approximately three hundred and fifty thousand dol lars.
 "The springs failed to produce wat CT enough to wet the pipes to the res ervir and the mine water was again husbanded and finally furnished enough for the operation of twenty of the forty stamps. For all this sort of management the amount of ore left by the first company and by the leas- CTS was so large that production con tinued four years. For good part of two years after the new mill was completed the south twenty stamps were run on the low grade ores and the high grade shipped as before, not withstanding the management refused to do development work as their en- gineer insisted should be done. This continued till all ore in sight of their milling grade of twenty-five ounces was gouged out. In the meantime the Company had met it's payments on the property till the last payment became due. This was the cause of dispute which resulted in litigation, which kept up till 1904, when the property was sold on judgment to Moffat. Silver had reached the bottom and nothing was done. A good watchman was put in charge of the property, and when MT. Moffat failed in business in 1911 the property passed to MT. Roots family, and litigation again ensued, and this has only recently been cleared up.
 "The total production of the proper ty during the nine years of it's opera ton was probably no less than six million ounce sof silver. There is no way of estimating the production of gold, though it was very consider able"
 For seventeen years Isaac w. Mouat and his faithful wife, Jean, have un- tiringly watched the White Hills prop erty, its mills and hoisting plants, minutely looking after every detail and maintaining every machine, tool and equipment, as it was left when the big mines and plants were closed to operation. The mill and hoists are in as good condition as they were when the close down came and can be put in shape to start up at a few