Baumann Mining Camp
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Unknown Unknown 1600.0196.0007.jpg M-196 B&W 1600-0196-0007 m196pg Print 6x9 Historic Photographs 1902 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Overlooking one of the Baumann Copper Company mining camps, in the Agua Fria region of the Bradshaw Range, Val Verde/Humboldt, Yavapai County, Arizona.
The Baumann Company held the deed to twenty-five mining claims (500 acres) in the richly mineralized Agua Fria section of the Bradshaw Mountain Range. Their claims followed a northwest-southeasterly coursing spur of the Black Hills, and at an elevation of about 500 feet above the Agua Fria River (two miles away.) The area was referred to as the “Verde Copper Belt” and was fifteen miles east of Prescott and extended from Jerome on the north and Copper Mountain on the south.
When the Company was first incorporated, 600,000 shares were offered to shareholders at $1.00 each. Jules Baumann served as the Company's secretary and general manager. Some of the Company’s mines included the Swiss Girl, the Beebe, the Baby, the Laura, the Hidden Treasure, the Winkelried, the Giant, the Berna, the Tillie, and others. Of benefit to the Baumann mines, the Val Verde smelter was nearby, one and one-half miles distant, and allowed a down-hill haul for the ores obtained from their mines.
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