Frisco Mine Town

Frisco existed for one reason: the Horn Silver Mine, called in 1879 the richest silver mine then working anywhere. Prospectors had cracked open its outcrop in 1875, and a town of several thousand boomed up in the desert below the San Francisco Mountains — twenty-odd saloons, killings frequent enough that a wagon collected the bodies each morning, every drop of water freighted in from Milford. Then, in February 1885, the over-timbered pit caved in and took the boom with it. Today the beehive charcoal kilns and a lonely cemetery are about all the desert kept.

Where it stands