Mining in the Swansea area began around 1862, but major activity had to wait for the coming of the railroad. In 1904 the Arizona and California Railroad began constructing a line from Wickenburg to Parker. Seeing an opportunity for further development several of the original miners, Newton Evans and Thomas Jefferson Carrigan, secured investment money and began to develop Swansea. By the end of 1908, a 350-ton capacity furnace, a 3.5-mile water pipeline from the Bill Williams River, and the…
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