22.36 ACRES Mohave County, Dolan Springs, AZ

22.36 Acre Ranch 10 miles northwest of Dolan Springs, AZ in the
White Hills of the CERBAT Mountains. - Mohave County- Growth Near Property Video - Dolan Springs Videos

Hoover Dam Bypass, about 43 miles northwest of Dolan Springs, is crossed by U.S. 93.United States Highway 93 (U.S. 93) has been designated a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) route. The increasing congestion caused by the switchbacks leading to the Hoover Dam site and the restrictions at the dam crossing have led to the development of the Hoover Bypass Project. The Hoover Dam Bypass Project is a 3.5-mile corridor beginning at approximately milepost 2.2 in Clark County, Nevada and crossing the Colorado River approximately 1,500 feet downstream of the Hoover Dam, then terminating in Mojave County, Arizona near milepost 1.7 on U.S. 93. The Hoover Dam Bypass Project reached another major milestone with the award of the contract for the final connection – the Colorado River Bridge. Construction on the nearly 2,000 foot long Colorado River Bridge is expected to begin in late January of 2005 and the completion of the entire Hoover Dam Bypass Project is expected in June 2008. When project complete it will take 45 minutes to get from Dolan Springs to Las Vegas, NV.

This Gorgeous property is 10 miles north west of beautiful Dolan Springs, AZ.
This ranch is perfect for investment or rural development. This is one of the most beautiful and spectacular areas of the state. Only 17 percent of Mohave County’s land is available for private ownership. The balance is owned by Native Americans, the Government, or is operated by the Bureau of Land Management. This property has sweeping views of Mohave and the Black Mountains. This specific parcel is adjacent to Bureau of Land Management property on the North Side insuring the owner’s privacy.

GENERAL INFORMATION: Gorgeous
Ranch/Horse/Home/Investment property. This property has sweeping
views of Mohave and the Black Mountains.

PROPERTY TAX: $74.86/year.
TITLE INFORMATION: Property was purchased with title insurance.
CONVEYANCE DOCUMENT: Special Warranty Deed.
GENERAL ELEVATION: 3,000 feet - ZONING: Residential
POWER: N/A - PHONE: N/A - WATER: By well: must drill your own.
SEWER: Septic---must install your own when building.
ROADS: dirt

The land is perfect for ranching, camping, hunting, as well as off road recreation. It is also very close to many attractions like Lake Havasu (1 hour, 50 minutes, 95.16 miles) and Laughlin, Nevada (1 hour, 21 minutes - 59.33 miles). Many visitors come to this area to retreat from the hot temperatures of the Phoenix Metropolitan area. This parcel is near Lake Havasu, Arizona’s most beautiful and famous lake. This canyon lake is perfect for fishing, boating, swimming and has a great town for all of the most modern amenities.

Also close by is Laughlin, Nevada. Laughlin is known for it’s wonderful casinos and shows, second only to Las Vegas This is a much smaller town than Las Vegas, which has helped it to keep the Wild West feeling for which it is famous. Please click on the link provided for more information on Laughlin: Please click on the link provided for more information: Laughlin.
SIZE: 22.36 Acres APN#: 319-04-004c
TWN: 26N RNG: 19W SEC: 5 TRACT: KEMO RANCHES S2 OF LOT 20 & THE N,E,S & W 20' OF THE NE4 & NW4 OF LOT 20 CONT 22.36 ACRES

Our Property - Way up in the mountains (no roads that I can see)
Between West 23rd street (top) - Bullhead Rd (Left) - 22nrd (bottom)

Looks like N Bullhead road stop at w-15th street and our property is at w-23rd street
- no roads near property

Not a good comparable:
13th street way below the mountain where property is at in mountains -
Our property way up in mountain where West 23rd street is supposed to be.
Mohave County

Property Description:
The South half (S1/2) of Lot 20 and the North 20 feet, the South 20 feet, the East 20 feet and the West 20 feet of the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) and the Northwest quarter of said lot located in KEMO RANCHES, according to the plat thereof, recorded February 21, 1961, at Fee No. 101271, in the office of the County Recorder of Mohave County, Arizona.
EXCEPT 1/2 of all gas, oil and minerals as reserved in Deed recorded in Book 56 of Deeds,
Page 486. EXCEPT 1/4 of all oil, gas and minerals as reserved in instrument recorded in Docket 40, page 457.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO PROPERTY:
From Kingman travel north on I-93 to Pierce Ferry Road (24 miles). Turn right and travel approximately 7.5 miles to the unmarked jeep trail on the left. Travel on the jeep trail
about 5 miles to property section. Please see plat and topo maps for trail route.

Looking at Map it looks like you take Pierce Ferry Road until you get to Cedar Dr *should be on left side of road). Cedar drive if it goes that far should take you directly to property. Looks like it is way out. 319-04-004c (T26N R19W) not far from Hualapai Indian Reservation.

Dolan Springs, Arizona. Location: 70 miles east of Las Vegas Nevada, and 50 miles south of Kingman Arizona.
The Grand Canyon is 20 miles away, Lake Mead is 40 miles north of town. There is only one paved road. Pierce ferry road is the main road into town. You have to go 20 miles off Route 93 to get there.

Warranty sent to:
Mohave County Recorder
Joan McCall, Recorder
P.O. Box 70
315 E. Oak Street
Kingman, Arizona 86402-0070
Telephone: (928) 753-0701
Facsimile: (928) 753-0727
email joan.mccall@co.mohave.az.us

Bought Feb-24-02 Parcel ID Number: 31904004C From Mission Equity Properties

Property Taxes	Acres	2009 Taxes	2008 Taxes	2007 Taxes	2006 Taxes	2005 Taxes	Division	Block#
Dolan Springs	22.36 acres	$50,585 $409.58	$35,776 $141.26	$2,952 $47.72	$44.80	$48.28	Kemo Ranches	36N RNG: 19W Sec 5 Tract: Kemo Ranches

Taxes went way up for property that is on top of a mountain, with no roads, no utilities.
Mohave County - Bought for $2,952 in 2002 (taxes $47.72), 2008 property assessed at $35,776 (taxes $141.26), 2009 property assessed at $50,585 (taxes $409.58). Looks like washes go thru property.
No plans for road development or utilty development (not the white hills area).

7. Mohave County Planning and Zoning Dept. (928-757-0903) to see zoning designation, what kind of house you can build, whether you can keep animals, other zoning designations and allowed uses in the area and whether any present or future development is planned nearby.
8. Arizona State Land Dept. ( 602-542-1704) or Bureau of Land Management (928-757-3161 ) for more information about land usages, access and activities on the federal or state property and how they might effect my property.

kingmandailyminer - mohavedailynews- havasumagazine- ArizGoldDeposit
Gold, silver and copper have been extracted from the Cerbats, located about 20 miles northwest of Kingman, for at least 100 years. The old silver mining camp of Chloride lies at the base of the range.
The Mohave Prospectors has over 300 acres of gold bearing claims in the northeast part of Arizona.

The Rock That Kills ...an Arizona legend Copyright 1997 by Sam Negri

Pursuing a legend can be hazardous to your health. In the spring of 1994 I went looking for the elusive Rock that Kills --sometimes called the Death Trap Mountain-- and it was only after I was high in Mohave County's Cerbat Mountains that it suddenly occurred to me that if I located this mysterious phenomenon and verified its power, I probably wouldn't be around to write about it: According to legend, anything that touches the rock dies --zap! As in instantly. But, the legend also says that even in the sunlight the rock gives off a pale blue light, and so I thought maybe I could detect the rock by its ice-blue glow and avoid any direct contact.

I first heard about the Death Trap from Don Gawthrop, of Tulsa, a man who enjoys reading about the history and legends of the West. Gawthrop said he was a child in Detroit when he first heard this story about a rock in Arizona that kills on contact. Many years later he found an expanded version of the legend in a book by Leland Lovelace called Lost Mines and Hidden Treasure, published in 1971. Lovelace's account of the fatal rock appears to be an expanded version of the same story written by one John S. Eross and published in 1966 in True West Magazine.

Both writers agreed, as Lovelace put it, that "The Death Trap is in a narrow gorge, a little pass in a rugged, almost inaccessible mountain, the Cerbat range. The locale is of great interest to hunters and prospectors, for this mountain is the hide-away of antelope and big horn sheep, and lies in the gold and silver country."

There's no question that the reference to the mining activity is accurate. Gold, silver and copper have been extracted from the Cerbats, located about 20 miles northwest of Kingman, for at least 100 years. The old silver mining camp of Chloride lies at the base of the range.

The Cerbat Mountains are very dry and covered with granite outcroppings and diminutive desert scrub. In addition to the big horn sheep, the steep hills and deep canyons of the range are home to a herd of about 100 wild horses. There are two Bureau of Land Management campgrounds in the twisted pinon pines and junipers at the top of the range, but few visitors see the place. Hunters and prospectors --people with a specific mission-- are most likely to be attracted to such a harsh terrain, and it was a group of hunters who were credited with the first non-Indian reports of the Death Trap.

Lovelace claimed that while white men had never heard of the Death Trap "it was known to the Hualapais [An Indian tribe in Mohave County] from prehistoric days." Anthropologist Robert Euler of Prescott, an expert on the Hualapais, called this rubbish.

"In all my years with the Hualapais I have never heard any such thing as that," Euler said. "I've been all through the Cerbats with Hualapai guides and never once heard a story like that."

But, let's hear the rest of what Lovelace and Eross have to say:

Around 1883, some of the men building the Santa Fe Railroad across northern Arizona took a weekend to go hunting in the Cerbats. From their camp, these hunters could see a bright, steady light on the mountainside. They were intrigued by the light but decided not to investigate it firsthand. Instead, they returned to work the next day and made some inquiries. Some Indians reportedly told them about "the power in the rock," Lovelace reported, but they refused to go into any detail.

The next mention of the Death Trap came in 1895. Lovelace says a group of hunters from Pennsylvania startled a big horn sheep in the Cerbats which "in its fright ran blindly into the narrow gorge beneath the overhanging ledge and, to the great surprise of the hunters, who had as yet not fired a shot, it fell dead upon the rock."

Eross, the earlier writer, told basically the same story but said the hunters were from Texas. Presumably he should know. He was one of them. He said he was 13-years-old at the time, which would have made him 84 when he finally decided to publish his account in True West in 1966.

Seeing the strange death of the big horn, Eross and the other hunters started walking toward the rock to investigate. Suddenly an old Hualapai Indian jumped out of the brush and, with hand signs and animated speech, warned them off.

"He said the sheep had stepped upon the Death Trap and if we followed after it, we would die even as the sheep. He pointed out the number of whitening bones that had fallen from the rock into the gorge," Eross wrote.

"While we stood gazing at the spectacle, a rattlesnake crawled out of a crevice and, mounting the edge of the blue rock, writhed, coiled, raised its head and fell lifeless. To us it was enough to verify the ancient tradition! We thanked the Indian for saving us from a dreadful fate."

The old Indian then removed a horsehair lariat that he carried round his waist, raised it over his head and flung it toward the dead sheep, catching it round the head without touching the ground. He dragged the sheep off the rock and that night joined Eross and his companions for a mutton dinner. After supper, the old Indian told the hunters the legend of the Death Trap. Eross didn't relate that legend in 1966, but said only that it was a long story.

Lovelace doesn't say where or how he learned what the old Indian had said during his campfire monologue, but in his 1971 book he narrated a detailed yarn that could have originated with the Brothers Grimm, but which he said originated with the old Hualapai Indian.

The gist of the story is this: Long ago a stranger came to the Hualapais asking for food and shelter. The man had blonde hair and an attractive face, but he was hunchbacked and his body was described as small, shrunken and deformed. This gnome-like person also had brilliant blue eyes "and had strange powers of healing the sick and injured --sometimes by merely fixing those large luminous eyes upon the patient," Lovelace wrote. Even the animals loved him, and followed him like the Pied Piper.

"The chief of the tribe held the stranger in such trust and affection he made him a tribal medicine man. During the many years he remained with them, time had no aging effect upon him. Others grew old and the children matured, but the blond, blue-eyed hunchback changed not," Lovelace related.

But the gnome's fortunes changed suddenly when he violated the chief's trust. As the story goes, the chief's son was about to be married to a beautiful young woman, but just before the ceremonies were to begin the bride disappeared. No one could figure out what happened until an old woman went to the chief and told him his blue-eyed medicine man had used his magic to take the bride away.

Lovelace says everyone loved the hunchback so much that, rather than kill him they decided to simply drive him off. After giving him a head start, a dozen Indians were sent to pursue him to be sure he kept going, but then a peculiar thing happened. In Lovelace's words:

"As time passed, they found themselves following, not chasing. He was leading them on, and as if drawn by some irresistible magnet, they could neither halt nor retrace their steps. When the chief sent runners to bid the braves return, they gave no ear to the commands. On and on, looking neither to the left nor to the right; seeing only the once-loved figure before them. The hour of sunset near, they still ran without pause."

Then an even stranger thing occurred: The runners chasing the first group of Indians were suddenly spellbound "seeing the dozen braves fall, one by one, dead in their tracks as they stepped upon the parted segments of a huge blue stone."

And so --according to Lovelace-- the Hualapais say the strange blond medicine man invoked into the stone forever the fateful power of the gods to frustrate pursuit of him and his stolen Hualapai bride.

When I gave the broad outline of this story to anthropologist Euler, he said he'd never heard anything like it among the Hualapais. Then I told him the operatic drama about the blue-eyed hunchback who uses magic to steal a bride, and he said there actually was a white man who lived with the Hualapais before the turn of the century.

"His name was Charlie Spencer and he lived with the Hualapais around 1880 or 1890," Euler noted. "He even learned to speak the Hualapai language, and he helped them with their farming, but one day an Indian got mad at him and killed him."

Then I reviewed the story again with Don Simonis, an archaeologist with the Bureau of Land Management's Kingman office, who accompanied me into the Cerbats.

"You know," Don said, "I first heard that story when I was a kid growing up in Prescott. It's a good story but nobody knows if there's anything to it. Every so often I'd mention it to a geologist and the only thing they come up with is that maybe this rock is a highly radioactive chunk of uranium."

Uranium and other rare minerals have been found in the mountains of Mohave County and in other parts of northern Arizona, but no one I talked to knew of a chunk of uranium so hot that it could kill an animal on contact.

Simonis said a few years ago he met a Hualapai Indian in Kingman named Grant Tapija. "I don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but he brought up the blue rock; as I recall he just said there was this old blue rock that kills. He believed it was a true story."

Dan Messersmith, an administrator at Mohave Community College and a local historian, had a theory about the origins of the Death Trap story. In his words:

"There is a grain of truth in the story in that there are a number of places in the mountains around here where animals have been killed en masse and their bones have piled up. My guess is that some story teller picked up on that and expanded it. When a Hualapai leader died, they would cremate that person and destroy their worldly goods. It's possible they considered the person's ponies part of his worldly goods and just took them out and killed them, and that may be why the bones are piled up here and there.

"But the business about the Death Trap, " Messersmith said, "may simply be adapted from a Hualapai legend to keep people away from their burial grounds."

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Mysterious Cattle Death in Navajo County - Cattle were gathered and held overnight in an enclosure, then driven to a new pasture, and taken to a water source. In the Heber incident, the water source was a stock tank. Near Springerville, the Little Colorado River is the source of the water.

Dolan Springs is growing very fast. A lot of the land has tripled in value in the past 5 years. Since 9-11 the need for the 234 million dollar Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge has increased. This bridge is currently under construction and is estimated to be completed during 2008 SEE ( http://bridgepros.com/projects/Hoover_Dam_Bypass_Bridge/ ) for more information. Once this bridge is completed it will make the drive from Las Vegas to Dolan Springs a breeze (around one hour). Dolan Springs is 61 miles from Henderson, and 75 miles from Las Vegas(on Interstate 93). The only slow part of the drive is the detour through Hoover Dam, with the bridge this detour will be eliminated. We all know how fast Las Vegas is growing, not to mention Kingman which is located just 36 miles to the Southeast. There is also a master planned community in the works 20 miles northwest of Dolan towards Vegas. All of these factors will continue to effect the value of the land in Dolan Springs. Below is some general information.

Dolan Springs is an unincorporated desert community at the base of Mount Tipton, a 6,900-foot prominence in the Cerbat Mountains in west-central Mohave County. At an elevation of 3,300 feet, the town is approximately 30 miles northwest of Kingman.

Dolan Springs, called the Gateway to Lake Mead, is 75 miles southeast of Las Vegas, and 70 miles northeast of Laughlin, Nevada. Mohave County has an estimated 1,000 miles of fresh water shoreline with Dolan Springs at the gateway to Lake Mead, a beautiful 550-mile shoreline lake offering bass, catfish, and trout fishing, boating, and other forms of water recreation. Lake Mead was created by the construction of Hoover Dam. The Pierce Ferry Road, beyond the community itself, is paved to South Cove toward the upper or eastern end, of Lake Mead. In addition to the area's water recreation, there are gold mines, rock hunting and the attraction of Las Vegas, Nevada. Tour buses to the West Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park are available daily from Dolan Springs. The Haulapai Mountains' forested slopes, 40 miles southeast, offer picnicking and hunting.

One of the world’s largest Joshua Tree Forests is located in the Lake Mohave Ranchos/Dolan Springs area.

Comparables: $7,900.00 for 1.07 acre on Ebay Sold: The buyer does not have to qualify and will be financed at the annual 12% interest rate at a payment of $150.00 per month until the land is payed in full with no early payment penalty. At that time the deed will be delivered.

Comparables: Feb-13-05 $2,500 acre (others selling for $7,900 per acre)
Ebay ARIZONA LAND 20 AC MOHAVE CO DOLAN SPRINGS $40,000 APN: 319-11-032 tmdistributor 23 bids
Ebay ARIZONA LAND 20 AC MOHAVE CO DOLAN SPRINGS $45,000 APN: 319-11-033 shellym573 31 bids
Ebay ARIZONA LAND 20 AC MOHAVE CO DOLAN SPRINGS $50,000 APN: 319-11-036 winner: gmazza804 27 bids
Ebay: ARIZONA LAND 20 AC MOHAVE CO DOLAN SPRINGS $50,000 APN:319-11-037 winner: vegasthompson36 bids
www.MySunnyland.com Advertising example:

Property Number: 075
APN:	319-11-036
Subdivision:	Kemo Ranches-Dolan Springs area
County:	Mohave
State:	ARIZONA
Property Size:	20 ACRES
Terms:	CASH OR TERMS - SUGGESTED OPENING BID $3,000.00
Description:	Make sure you do not miss out on any of our 4 Kemo Ranches properties. Two have passed already so make sure you act before it is too late. This 20 acre piece of raw acreage sits at the foot of the mountains just 3 miles north of Dolan Springs, AZ and just 3.5 miles from Highway 93 leading to Las Vegas

MOHAVE | AZ | KEMO RANCHES-DOLAN SPRINGS AREA | 20 AC. |:

This is the last of the 4 KEMO RANCHES Properties. Did you know that a large developer just purchased 35,000 ACRES just a few miles north of this area to start building homes soon?

Dolan Springs, Arizona is an unincorporated desert community at the base of Mount Tipton, a 6,900 foot prominence in the Cerbat Mountains in west central Mohave County At an elevation of 3,350 feet, the town is northwest of Kingman. Dolan Springs, called the "Gateway to The Grand Canyon", is 70 miles southeast of Las Vegas and 70 miles northeast of Laughlin, Nevada. Mohave County has an estimated 1,000 miles of fresh water shoreline, a beautiful 550-mile shoreline lake offering bass, catfish and trout fishing, boating, and other forms of water recreation near the property. The Pierce Ferry Road, beyond the community itself, is paved to South Cove toward the upper, or eastern end, of Lake Mead. Lake Mead was created by the construction of Hoover Dam. In addition to the area's water recreation, there are gold mines, rock hunting and the attraction of Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the world s largest Joshua Tree Forests is located in the Lake Mohave Ranchos in the Dolan Springs area. Hoover Dam, about 43 miles northwest of Dolan Springs, is crossed by U.S. 93.

Online Bidders to pay 5% Convenience fee in addition to $270.00 Document Preparation and Recoding Fee per property purchased applicable for all Buyers.

Main Ring Live and Online Auction - Terms of Sale:
All parcels in the "Main Ring Live Auction With Online Participation" (Properties 1 - 120) are being sold on a CASH or TERMS basis. This means that the properties can be purchased with cash or financed through seller financing.

All loans extended the day of the auction are fully amortized at an interest rate of 10%. We only require a low down payment of 20% of the winning high bid (or $1,000.00, whichever is greater). There is no pre-payment penalty for early loan pay-offs. All parcels sold at auction can also be paid in full the day of the auction.

Kingman Golf Course

Kingman Pizza and stores

Dolan Springs

Dolan Springs area

View from the property

The property

Southwest view of the property

The property

Views from the property

Mohave Lake

Kingman area Mountain Views

Lake Mead at Davis Dam

New Grand Canyon Sky walk

* Scheduled to open Jan. 1, 2006 Hualapai Indian Reservation

* Juts about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above the Colorado River
                           * Will accommodate 120 people comfortably
     * Built with more than a million pounds of steel beams, and includes
dampeners that minimize the structure's vibration.

* Designed to hold 72 million pounds, withstand an 8.0 magnitude
earthquake 50 miles away, and withstand winds in excess of 100 mph

* The walkway has a glass bottom and sides...four inches thick


Tour
The drive to the west rim is about 2 1/2 hours from Las Vegas, clogged at Hoover Dam and slowed by a trek through Dolan Springs, Ariz. Tribal officials estimate completion of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge in 2008 will take a half hour off the drive. A rumored proposal for a highway linking White Hills and Meadview might slice another half-hour off.

Housing developments planned for the White Hills area could literally put the outskirts of Las Vegas on the Grand Canyon's back door.

Plat Map	Street Map
Topo Map	Aerial Photo
Property Disclosure Sheet

Terms:	CASH OR TERMS - SUGGESTED OPENING BID $3,000.00
Size:	20 ACRES
Access:	Through unpaved roads.
Electricity and Phone:	Electricity in the general area. Cell phones work in the area.
Water and Sewer:	Water would be by well. Sewer would be by Septic (When you are ready to build.)
Terrain:	Flat with high desert vegetation. Unrestricted panoramic mountain views.
Zoning:	Class Code: Ag, Vacant Land or Non-profit. Check with Mohave County for Details.