Great Peck Mine


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Unknown Unknown 1600.0291.0003(Oversize).jpg M - 291(Oversize) B&W 1600-0291-0003(Oversize) m291pc(Oversize) Print 11x14 Historic Photographs 1903 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & Archives

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Picture of three men standing on tracks that lead to the north entrance of the Peck Mine, c. 1903.  

Typewriting below the bottom border of the print says: “The Entrance to the North Tunnel of the Great Peck, through which nearly $2,000,000 was taken by man power.”

Handwriting on the rear of the print appears to say: “Miners Clifford Beal, G. Fennell, Bixby.”

 

The Peck Mine was a silver mine located in Yavapai County, Arizona at an elevation of 5,249 feet. The mine, was located near Cleator, Arizona, and situated within the Peck Mining District which has now become a part of the Prescott National Forest. This mining site was initially discovered by Edmund G. Peck in the year 1875. The Peck Silver Mine operated as an underground mine and began production in 1875. Its overall output was relatively small. The mining operations mainly involved underground workings, with a single known shaft. It was in production from 1875 until 1948.

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