The paper was printed on one of the first Chicago stop-cylinder presses ever manufactured, and consisted of seven columns.

Smith won enough money playing faro from Judge James Reed Russell to erect the newspaper's building on Beale Street.

In 1885, Smith moved to Kingman, Arizona and started another paper, the Walapai Tribune.

[1][2][3] In 1918, the paper merged with Our Mineral Wealth, which had been established in 1893 in Kingman by Kean St. Charles.

In 1922, the paper returned to being called the Mohave County Miner, and remained under that name until its closure in 1974.