Date Original
1915-1918
Description
This collection includes correspondence from Howard A. Millar, Consulting Mining Engineer, to the M.M. Mauney estate, reporting diamonds found on the leased Mauney land.
Biographical/Historical Note
Millard M. Mauney owned forty acres of diamond-bearing land outside Murfreesboro, Arkansas, and refused offers to sell after the first diamonds were discovered in 1906 on an adjoining property. He sold thirty acres to Horace Bemis, leasing the remaining ten acres to the Kimberlite Company, consisting of Austin Q. Millar, his son Howard A. Millar, and W.L. Wilder as trustees. After Bemis died, his heirs sold their land to the Millars, who tried to buy Mauney's land. Mauney staunchly refused, even trying to buyback the land the Millars bought from Bemis. An act of arson destroyed the Millar operation in 1919.They were never able to recover from the loss.
Physical Description
Document, 8.5" x 11"
Geographical Area
Murfreesboro, Pike County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
SMC.007.010a
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Murfreesboro diamond mines correspondence, SMC.007.010a
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Murfreesboro diamond mines correspondence, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
