Beautiful Rosasite Mineral Specimen Christmas Mine AZ

Beautiful Rosasite Mineral Specimen Christmas Mine AZ

3.5 OZ - 2.5" X 1'5"

MINE IS CLOSED DONT MISS THIS DISPLAY BEAUTY

FOR YOUR COLLECTION

These days it is closed to the public, but in its day the ghost town of

Christmas, Arizona - about 10 miles north of Winkelman – boasted a population of about 1,000.

Christmas, like a number of Arizona towns, was built around copper mining.

Between 1905 and 1943 the Christmas Mine produced 55 million pounds of copper, worth over $10 million. The town that sprang up around it had a dairy, a grocery store, a school, a church, a cemetery, a hat shop, a barbershop . . . and, for about 20 years, a post office.

From June 17, 1905 to March 30, 1935, the date it finally closed –

it was shut down several times before –

the Christmas post office took in Christmas cards and other packages from across the country by people who wanted their items re-mailed with a Christmas postmark. Despite the final closure, holiday mail came in for the next 20 years and was forwarded to the Winkelman post office.

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