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Edwin Walter Mills

Posted 2008-03-11 by Sharon
Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ
June 8, 1956 p. 1

Edwin W. Mills, Salome Pioneer, Summoned June 5

Funeral services have been tentatively set for 11 o'clock Friday morning at the Wickenburg Chapel for Edwin W. Mills, age 79, a resident of Salome for many years, who passed away Tuesday morning at Community Hospital.

The services will be conducted by the Rt. Rev. A. B. Kinsolving of the Episcopal Church of Phoenix and burial will follow in the Wickenburg Cemetery.

Mr. Mills was one of Salome's best known citizens and had a wide acquaintance among mining men of the state. He was long active in the affairs of the Salome Lions Club, especially in the annual observance of Dick Wick Hall Day in the Yuma County town west of here.

He was a frequent visitor to Wickenburg where he also had many, friends.

Mr. Mills had been in the hospital here since March 4 when is leg was broken when he was struck by an automobile in Salome.

A mining engineer, he had been president of the Arizona Small Mine Owners Association since 1951. He received his degree in mining engineering from Harvard University in 1902 and was elected for many years following graduation he worked as an engineer in the Orient.

During World War I, he worked for the Navy intelligence in many sections of Siberia.

Upon his return to the United States in 1930, he operated mines at Jackson, Calif., and Choloride Ariz. Two years later he took over the development of the Sheep Tanks mine near Salome and had since conducted extensive research on methods for recovery of gold, silver and manganese contained in the deposit.

Mr. Mills had served since 1947 as a member of the board of governors of the state department of mineral resources; at the time of his death he was vice-chairman of that group.

Survivors include two sisters, Mabel Mills, Jamacia Plains, Mass., and Ella Brown, Boston.

Mr. Mills had never married.


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