Superior, Arizona - An Old Mining Camp with Many Lives

Briggs, D.F.

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Briggs, D.F., 2015, Superior, Arizona - An Old Mining Camp with Many Lives. Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report, CR-15-D, 13 p.

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In November 1870, General George Stoneman, the military commander of the Arizona Territory, erected a small military camp near the base of Picket Post Mountain and began construction of a road to the proposed site of Camp Pinal, a second military post in the Pinal Mountains. Completed in April 1871, this road meandered north from Camp Picket Post on Queen Creek about three miles west of the present town site of Superior to a point along Silver King Wash; then followed Silver King Wash north to its junction with Comstock Wash (Figure 1). The road crossed the Pinal Mountains at “Stoneman’s Grade”, where it dropped into the upper reaches of the Queen Creek drainage before emerging just north of Oak Flat and crossing Devils Canyon before continuing east to Camp Pinal, locatlocated near the present day community of Top of the World. Shortly after the Camp Grant Massacre of April 30, 1871, General Stoneman was relieved of command and replaced by General George Crook, who subsequently abandoned Camp Pinal in July 1871 (Machula, 1996a).

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33.3265

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