The Milton Mine Historic Structures Report
Appleman RE and Jones R. 1969. The Milton Mine Historic Structures Report. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This Historic structures Report, Parts I and II, of the Milton Mine, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, has been prepared pursuant to Historical Resource Study Proposal, ORPI-H-1, approved February 15, 1968, and as a part of the 1969 fiscal year History Division research program. Because of the limited material available on the history of the structures, their simple and uncomplicated nature, and the extent of the remains, this report combines Parts I and II. The Milton Mine structures report is only a part of the Study Proposal which includes also the Victoria Mine, the Blankenship Ranch, the Gachado Sub-ranch, and the Pozo Nuevo Line Camp. The Victoria Mine will be treated separately, and the latter three items, all a part of the Blankenship ranching operations in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, will be grouped together for a third separate report of this Study Proposal. Source material has been fugitive with respect to the Milton Mine. There is little that can be stated about its discovery and development. It was never a major mining operation but is perhaps typical of hundreds of claims taken out and worked briefly and sporadically in the Sonora Desert region of the Southwest. It was always an open cut operation of a limited scale, with the highest grade ore handpicked and trucked to-the smelter at Ajo or Douglas.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Appleman, Roy; Jones, Russell
- Date of Issue
- 1969
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ORPI
- Keywords
- Milton Mine