Melvin Whitson Mills

He joined his father at the Moreno Mines, Colfax County, New Mexico, and there began and continued the practice of law.

Colfax County, New Mexico, in which spent his later years, had been the seat of many internal insurrections, and hundreds of people had been hung, shot, and killed in various ways over local difficulties. The law could not be enforced at times; the courts could not be held since the civil authorities where often at the mercy of the outlaws and worst types of desperados.

While in Cimarron, New Mexico he was twice elected to the territorial legislature, and has held various other offices such as county and city attorney for Elizabethtown, and was District Attorney for a number of counties.

Melvin Mills owned a large ranch in Springer, New Mexico, while a cattle owner and was in control of one of the largest mercantile and banking company at the time.

• Haines, Helen (1891). History of New Mexico From a Spanish Conquistadores To the present time, 1530-1890. New Mexico Historical Publishing Co.
• New Mexico Historical Review. Historical Society of New Mexico. 1926.

• Melvin Mills' Mansion at santafetrailnm.org
• Melvin Mills at HardingCounty