First Mines in District

Greenlee County · Beside U.S. 666 in Chase Creek Canyon near old ruins of Metcalf · location approximate

Ruins of Metcalf First Claims Located Here in 1872 Arizona Central, Yankie and Montezuma claims were later grouped with Shannon and Long- fellow mines to form Copper Mountain Mining District. H. A. and Charles Lesinsky in 1873 built the first smelter and then Arizona's first rail- road, a narrow-gauge line run- ning up Chase Creek Canyon.

Cast and erected in 1957 by Arizona Development Board, before this book went to press.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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