The company laid out a townsite at Willow Spring, near a wash on the southeast slope, about nine miles east of the discoveries.

By the summer of 1871, Ivanpah had become a small but well-established trading center for a huge district spilling over into Nevada.

A traveler came across fifteen well-built adobe buildings, including a hotel, two stores, the office and headquarters of the Piute Company, and several small houses.

The chief properties were the Hite & Chatfield claim, which was soon renamed the Lizzie Bullock, and the Monitor and Beatrice, owned by the McFarlane brothers: Tom, Andrew, John, and William.

The post office was moved to the new smelter camp of Valley Wells in early 1899, and its name was changed to Rosalie.