Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1919 — Quicksilver in Arizona. [ARTICLE]

Quicksilver in Arizona.

The present exceptional demand for quicksilver in the manufacture of fulminate gives the domestic deposits of this metal particular interest. Deposits recently discovered in the southern part of the Phoenix mountains, ten pailes northeast of Phoenix, Ariz., are described in a short paper prepared by F. C. Schrader, published by the United States geological survey. The deposits are easy of access, and, being near the riel), agricultural region of Salt River valley, are otherwise favorably situated for mining. They are "being exploited on six or more properties or groups of claims, which lie in a belt, about three miles wide.