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Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 13th Ed., 1973. Pamphlet, paper covers 12 pp. A Historical Booklet on Jerome Arizona.
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In very good condition. Brown pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and aging. Quarter-sized white patch on bottom left corner of front cover where price sticker was removed. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages lightly aged but clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations, maps [From page 1] Jerome is a mine town. It is propped on a 30-degree mountainside 2,000 feet above the Verde Valley floor in central Arizona. Jerome's main streets are switchbacks in an arterial highway that snakes over Mingus Mountain. Fifteen hundred vertical feet separate the upper-level houses from the lower houses in the Gulch. Few towns, if any, are more precariously anchored on an inclined plane. The first mine claims were staked on an ore body west of where Jerome now stands. That was back in the almost roadless days of horses, mules and burros, and this rugged mountain was absolutely without a road. It was natural for those early prospectors and miners to camp close to the diggings. The diggings grew into one of the greatest copper-producing mines in the world, and the camp grew into the fabulous city of Jerome. The history of Jerome is a story of tough men against a rough mountain. It's a hard story of hard rock, hard work, hard liquor and hard play. Jerome's ups and downs have never been confined to its streets and houses, nor to its shafts and pits. Rises and falls in the price of copper forced ups and downs in employment and payrolls, in population and prosperity. Fortunes were made and lost. Hopes soared upward with a widening vein of high-grade ore and fell to new lows when the vein pinched out.