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From: Bill and Glenna Jo Christen <>
Subject: Re: Vekol Mine
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:37:34 -0400
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> From: "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <>
>
> Some of you may know I have been trying to locate the Vekol Mine which is on the Tohonto O'Odham Reservation...
>
> We were about two hours from Casa Grande and back in the late 1800's and early 1900's that is a long jaunt for someone to take if someone died.

Gail,

I have been working on a book about Pauline Cushman. Her husband, Jere Fryer was a Pinal County Sheriff in the 1880s. He was also a miner, and I have noted references to the Vekol mine in newspaper accounts that I have read at the Arizona Historical Society. I have also come across references to the town of Pinal (now abandoned) and the mine (Silver King?) near there. Next year I was hoping to
get back to Arizona and four-wheel it to the Pinal site. Have you been there?

Bill Christen
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