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"A group of people from the eastern part of the country heard about a copper mine near McCoy and formed the Copper King Mine and Milling Company with headquarters at Copper Spur and began promoting the mine on a large scale. They sold stock mostly to eastern investors, but a few Colorado people thought they saw a good thing and bought in. By 1916 the mine located about two miles northeast of Copper Spur was in production and the ore being milled,...
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"At the Copper King mine in 1910: Fred Norquist, John LaForce, Emmett Quinlan, Warren Gibson and Frank Groh. For some unknown reason, the various individuals and companies who had operated the mine up to 1950 never bothered to have it patented." -- McCoy Memoirs p. 12
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]