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Photographer: Bill Kirchner
Taken: July 7, 2010
Caption: Marker On Wall to the Left of the Jerome Blast Furnace
Additional Description: This blast furnace was in use in 1882. The smelter site at that time was where the big open pit is at present. This little furnace used coke for fuel. The nearest source of supply was Wales, GR. Brit. More than half way around the world in travel distance! Small sailing vessels carried the coke across the Atlantic Ocean and around the Horn of South America to San Francisco. From there it was transported by railroad to Ashfork, Arizona where it was loaded into mule drawn freight wagons and hauled 60 miles over the mountains to Jerome. The production of this furnace was about 8,000 lbs. of copper per day compared to later smelting operations which produced 457,525 lbs. per day or 142,290,460 lbs. during the peak year of 1929.
Submitted: July 17, 2010, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p117802
File Size: 2.724 Megabytes

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