Description

Woman, man and pack mules outside a Baumann Company Camp building at the Swiss Girl Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona.

The Swiss Girl Mine was located near Mayer, Arizona, in the Agua Fria Mining District. It is now part of the Prescott National Forest. The former mine is inactive. The area surrounding it is characterized as the Mexican Highland. It is part of the Intermontane Plateaus.

The Swiss Girl was one of the twenty-five mining claims (500 acres) held by the  Baumann Copper Company in the Agua Fria section of the Bradshaw Mountain Range. All the 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 so-named “Verde Copper Belt” was fifteen miles east of Prescott and extended from Jerome on the north and Copper Mountain on the south.

An abundance of copper and other precious ores from the combined Bauman Company mines were obtained during its history. A quote from the May 19, 1904 edition of The Mining Reporter (pg. 505), describes the amount of mineralization available in the Company's mines in these words: “They include about all the known copper ores and are of good smelting and concentrating character. The gold and silver values are appreciable, and in many cases, sufficient for paying treatment charges, leaving the copper values net.”