Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-02-11

was discontinued, and the title to the property apparently hopelessly involv- ed. The property had produced large ly, the grade of the ore being of ex- traordinary value in gold and silver. The ore was a silver chloride in char acter, carrying manganese, as does much of the ore in the north end of the Cerbat range. It was an easy ore to treat and large mill was erected to handle the ores after the treatment method had been worked out in ten stamp mill by the old Root regime. From the time of it's discovery to it's closing down no mine in Arizona had a more sensational record for production than did this big group. This fact was known to many mining men, but none of them cared to enter into negotiations for the property with the endless litiga- tion in sight, nor spend a dollar in making investigation.
 Last summer Senator Kent Keller, himself an able lawyer, began to look into the matter of the mine titles and securing an. abstract immediately set to work to map out campaign to straighten out all the litigation and to bring together all interests, that an unclouded title could be secured. This he was successful in doing, the title not being so badly involved as had been supposed. One of the most important features of the title was recently decided by the supreme court of the United States, which confirm ed the title in one of the litigants and leaving only two principal debtors to be reckoned with. Senator Keller brought these two factors together and completely consolidated the title, cleaning up once-for-all further pos sibility of litigation over this famous old property.
 In December Senator Keller brought to the White Hills his engineer, John Sherman Bagg, and Wilbur H. Grant, the noted mining geologist, of San Francisco. No public utterances were made by either of the engineers, but it was not difficult to guess their opin- ion of the property, because last week Senator Keller came to Kingman from the coast and took the first steps to- ward the incorporation of the White Hills Mining company. This is be- yond doubt the most important mining movement in this part of Arizona for many years and will mean much to the business life of the county and King man in particular. Senator Keller knows the importance of having local connections and associations in the di- rectorate of the company, men who know the mining business, as we'll as men who know and have known White Hills for a long time. He has arrang- ed the board of directors to include John H. Ware, president; Judge An son H. Smith, vice-president; and Charles D. Wagner, secretary and treasurer. These men are prominent in business in Kingman. Messrs. Ware and Smith were both interested in White Hills in the old days and know full we'll the merits of the prop critics. MT. Wagner was for many years in the Indian service and was superintendent of the Wallapai Indian reservation and school at Valentine. He has been associated with Senator Keller from the beginning in the White Hills proposition. Senator Charles w. Herndon is the attorney for the company, and is one of the prominent lawyers of the state.
 To the people who lived in Mohave County, ,or for that matter, in the state, while the White Hills was run ming, that camp is one of the best known of all the old silver camps of the coast even to this day. But for the benefit and to recall to mind those old days of production we are giving short history of the camp:
 "The forty-seven patented claims of the White Hills property include all the producing mines of the Indian Secret Mining District, in Mohave County, in Arizona. This property was shown to Schaeffer and his par tner during the summer of 1892 by an Indian named Hualapai Jeff. Before Autumn rich ore was being shipped to the smelters. The camp grew very rapidly. Leasing was the order of the day. Large amounts of very rich high grade ore was shipped constantly. Several hundred chloriders were soon busy. Many of these made very con- siderable fortunes here in White Hills, notwithstanding the distance of fifty six miles from railroad and the great scarcity and consequent high cost of water. The ore was so high grade it could stand all these things. The shipments were so constant and un- usual in amount of silver and gold contained that the attention of David Moffat, noted mining man of Denver, was attracted to the camp. He sent R. T. Root to White Hills to investi- gate. The result was that by the autumn of 1893 Moffat and Root had most of the claims into