University of Arizona

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Robert Snedigar Oral History Collection

This collection consists one audio recording. Recordings are of interviews with Curt Hoyt and Duane Kline regarding local mining.

Testimony of Curt Hoyt includes his early life in Kansas, Wyoming and Oklahoma; reminiscences of Tucson and John and Isabella Greenway; and Mining in the Olive Camp District.

The testimony of Duane Kline includes working for Mogollon Mining Co., Miami, Arizona; his description of the "McDonald Finger Raise" mining method; and a brief history of Mowry Mine read from the USGS bulletin Mineral Deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains.