and causing many massacres in and around Wickenburg.

The Vulture Mine gave up to $200 million in gold and silver before the Federal Government closed it in 1942. An estimate two to three times that remains. The assay office was built in 1884. Its walls contain over $600 thousand in gold and silver. At different times, they had trouble with the miners stealing the gold ore. They would have the men undress when coming out of the shaft. One time, 18 miners were hung to a tree for "highgrading" ore. Geo H.N. Luhrs sent some Vulture gold mine bullion to San Francisco and had a ring made. In later years, he gave the ring to his oldest son who in turn, gave it to his oldest son, who gave it to his son. Thus, the Luhrs' have some of the original gold from the Vulture Mine.

Geo H.N. Luhrs knew Henry Wickenburg, and most of the people living there, at the time he was in the area. At the time Prescott was made the Capital City of Arizona, Wickenburg lost out by only two votes. In 1872, the Vulture Mine began slowing down, so, in January 1873, Geo H.N. Luhrs went to Smith's Mill, about fifteen miles away, which place he left in 1874 for Ehrenburg, where he remained three month. He then went to Prescott for a short time, then returned to Wickenburg and worked for the California and Arizona Stage Company, until the last of May, 1876. In the meantime, in 1874, he made a trip to Phoenix, the new hay town, located in the Salt River Valley but found it too small to set up his shop as a wheelwright.

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