Cancelled postal stationery entire with a Bisbee, Ariz., flag cancel dated November 14, 1904. The letter was addressed to Willcox, Ariz. In 1880 a small eastern mining firm known as Phelps Dodge and Co. sent Dr. James Douglas to purchase copper prospects in Arizona. He bought property close to the Copper Queen. The richest ore lay where the Copper Queen and Phelps Dodge properties joined. Rather than pursue litigation over the ores the two companies merged as the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company. Pictured- C. S. Fly's photograph of the Glory Hole at Bisbee's Copper Queen Mine in the 1880's.
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