Wildflower Mine
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Wildflower Mine, Crown King District, Yavapai County, Arizona Territory.
The Wildflower Mine was a silver mine, primarily, located in the vicinity of Crown King, Pine Grove District, Bradshaw Mountains, Yavapai County, Arizona at an elevation of 7,100 feet. In addition to silver, it produced secondary amounts of copper, gold, zinc and lead.
It was one of many mining properties owned by Frank M. Murphy, (b. 1855 – d. 1917), and his associates in the early 1900's. It was he and his group that constructed a railroad to service the mining interests and business activities in that area and spurred its growth and success.
This picture is perhaps of the gravity tramway that serviced the Wildflower. When the mine was later sold to the Bradshaw Development Company, c. 1917, they built a gravity tramway from the Wildflower Mine to the Company’s mill at Crown King. The December, 1917 issue of Yavapai Magazine, P. 15, stated: “This ore-conveying utility is handling every minute 700 pounds of the output of the Wildflower, and is in action only four hours every afternoon, supplying the plant to its full treating capacity. The tramway has a length of less than 2 ¼ miles.”
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