Metcalf Mine  - Greenlee County

 

Where: Covered up by tailings from the Morenci Mine

 

Travel Conditions: N/A

 

Operation Dates:  1870 - 1979

 

Description:  Metcalf in Greenlee County is covered with mine garbage from Morenci mine. Post office opened on August 25, 1899 and closed on May 15, 1936. Once a town were lived between 4000-5000 people, is now covered with mine garbage. The copper mine witch were discovered in 1870 was the towns living heart. This town had his own railroad with the name "Little Emma", witch brought the ore out of the canyon. When the mine was empty, people disappeared and now is nothing left. Bobby Zlatevski.  (www.ghosttowns.com)

 

Elevation 4,431 feet, cooper camp on branch railroad up Chase creek.  About 8 miles northwest of Clifton.  Named for Robert B. Metcalf, an early mining man who came to this camp 1872.  One of the first owners of the Longfellow mine. (Arizona Place Names)

 

What you will see today:  No longer a town and covered by the expanding Morinci mine.

 

Comments:  I have seen the name Metcalf associated with mining and the Metcalf brotheres were a key players in locating the inital copper find which has lead to a large operation still in production today.

 

Minerals Mined: Main production is copper with minor production of gold and silver.

 

Acknowledgement: ghosttowns.com, Arizona Place Names