Mansfield Mining and Smelting Co.

PMG Graded Stock, 67 EPQ Superb Gem Uncirculated. Santa Cruz county. Wrightson, Arizona. This company owned the Sweet and Black Cap mines. We assume the secretary, A. C. Sweet, was the discoverer of the Sweet mine. His (honorary) place as secretary is a position held by other miners who got their properties financed in the mid-west or east. This company also staked a huge amount of claims around these mines, built a smelter in 1908, but never really got going. The mine closed in 1911, and the company reorganized in 1912 into the Ruby Copper Co and the Southern Arizona Mining Co. No production was recorded until 1924 when lessees ran the mine for about 2 years. [ref: Tenney p317-8, who neglected to tell the reader what district the mine was in]. Datelined Kansas City.