Baumann Mine Office
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Interior of the Baumann Copper Company Mine Office. ca. 1897. Jules Baumann, mine superintendent, is seated on the left.
The Baumann Copper Company was incorporated in 1901. It held deed to twenty five mining claims (500 acres) in the Agua Fria section of the Bradshaw Range. The claims followed a northwest-southeasterly coursing spur of the Black Hills, at an elevation of about 500 feet above and two miles away from the Agua Fria River. (AZ Daily Journal-Miner, August 3, 1901, pg 1.) The Baumann mines lay within the so-named “Verde Copper Belt” which was fifteen miles east of Prescott and extended from Jerome on the north to Copper Mountain on the south.
Jules Baumann, a native of Switzerland, arrived in Prescott, Arizona the late 1870's. He was a multi-talented individual. He was an artist and draughtsman. Among other creations, Jules' lithographs of the Grand Canyon and an 1891 color plat map of Prescott were notable achievements. He also managed Prescott's first candy factory/store and its first ice cream parlor. A talented musician, Mr. Baumann was also one of Prescott's first civilian bandmasters. In later years, Jules' interests grew to include mining, and he helped form the Baumann and later the Logan Copper companies.
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