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 buy back 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.
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.
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1915 April 24: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro, Arkansas,
to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
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1915 October 11: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro,
Arkansas, to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
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1916 February 9: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro,
Arkansas, to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
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1916 June 1: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro, Arkansas,
to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
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1916 August 28: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro,
Arkansas, to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
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1918 June 25: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro, Arkansas,
to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
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1918 November 11: Howard A. Millar, et al., Murfreesboro,
Arkansas, to M.M. Mauney estate, Murfreesboro, Arkansas
