The Pearce mine

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The Pearce mine

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In the member archives there are photographs of the exterior and interior of one of John Pearce's mines.

John Henry Pearce was born January 22 1883 in Taylor, Arizona.

He began his explorations of the Superstition mountains in 1929.

Pearce had 3 Gold mines in the early 1930s and a cabin along the Apache trail. These were profitable for him during the depression. Pearce had a permanent camp located in Needle canyon beside Weavers Needle as well. He had 2 separate mines located in the Superstitions, but it was the mine in the Archives he felt was most profitable. Pearce attempted to get permission from the government in the 40s to run a road to the mine.

The mine in the Archives was a silican mine, I do not presently know the exact location of the other mine or the resources it contained.

John Pearce died January 12, 1959 in a head on collision on Apache trail.

Pearce was working the Superstitions off information and a map his Father obtained from a Mexican who worked for him. Leonardo Torres claimed to be one of the survivors of the Peralta massacre in 1947.

Leonardo Torres information is enough for a topic of its own.
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