SMITHS MILL

NAME: Smith's Mill COUNTY: Maricopa ROADS: none LEGAL INFO: T6N, R4W CLIMATE: Mild winter hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall

COMMENTS: There are no roads to Smith's mill, you have to walk the Hassayampa. REMAINS: Tailings.

P.W. "Bill" Smith erected a ten stamp mill, after the failure of the Vulture mill in 1873, to serve the Vulture Mine. It operated for five years and a small settlement of about a hundred people lived around and worked in the mill. Mr. Smith had had enough after five years and the operation was sold and moved three more miles down the Hassayampa river to Seymour. Today there is nothing but tailings left.

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