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Silver King Mine

Pinal County · On U. S. Highway 60-70, approximately one mile west of Superior at a road turning off to Silver King Mine. · location approximate

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SILVER KING MINE One of the richest silver lodes in America during its productive years, 1877-1900. It was discovered in 1872 by a soldier making road improvements on Stoneman's Grade, and three years later developed by a farmer who gave the discoverer some clothes for directions to his find. The ore was hauled to a mill on Queen Creek just above Picket Post Mountain.

Named in the Arizona Department of Transportation's 1997 list of markers standing in its right of way. That 1997 list covers only state highway right of way, so it does not reach markers on city streets, on tribal land, or in state and national parks.

1958 text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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