Morenci High School - Copper Cat Yearbook (Morenci, AZ)

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Individual claims were soon sold to larger companies - the Arizona Copper Company, Detroit Copper Company and Shannon Copper Company, who developed the plans which resulted in large scale copper mining. By 1921 Phelps Dodge Cor- poration had bought all the copper holdings in the Clifton-Metcalf- Morenci district. In 1941 the operations were changed from underground to open pit mining. Phelps Dodge today operates the huge open pit, the mill and the smelter. Twenty - six hundred employees maintain and operate the machines which have dug terraces fifty feet apart and one hundred feet deep in one square mile of hard rock mountain. Copper has never been the only source of income for resi- dents of Greenlee County. Cotton and ranching have also been im- portant. Our cotton is of such superior quality that several eastern textile manufacturers buy direct from our farmers. There are now only about 10,000 cattle, although about 1918 there were many thousands more. Against this colorful background we also find the manyindependent businesses--well developed and prosperous. Only the old-timers can actually realize the vast changes and progress we have made. We, the present generation, can only listen entranced to their tales of yesterday. GREENLEE COUNTY, WE SALU YOU! 1959 TE 'E' ,J 6 J.. g.-' .f I 4, flaffrfxrz' .fqyu --4. , . ., r VJ! I . f1'f152f: :ff u ' K ' 6 psy' ' ' . Lf., -5 . fp-k' 5... , ,,., .Q .f sr ' .,-pf 1 MQ aggvteii aff ,PNN 3, in... ,U WW' bf , .vii fir A. 4 . . -wma - at .Vi - ,,.3 , 5. nm., . . f- A- f . .t '- A -ml .. as 'gin' ,A- A. n 'n 6 Q A ,,- fr' - Y ' Xtifsfi- A x', J. W A . f .a-42.'g 1 A bi' tim! X sv J' A-,Q '-.sr A W . i 'TX ' H . , , . Q S.. 1 .ae , ,, , -M- , jr .- 404. , ,.'f' .1,fX.L?' . .H- i . . nv . , tE4:4'.Y'., . QJJQ' ' -1 ' 4' ,,.V',ge X 'XX wb V

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BOARD OF EDUCATIO W?-if sill W1th the cornlng of settlers came the need for schools A one room bu1ld1ng provided by the Detro1t Company housed the flrst classes 1n 1890 The flrst teacher 1n Morenc1 was Carrxe N Hunt By 1895 a public a select and a pr1vate school were 1n operat1on The brxck buildxng now named the Longfellow School was con structed 1n 1902 and was used for both elementary and hxgh school classes A second story was added 1n 1907 WWWHEE The most str1k1ng feature of th1s the former h1gh school was the fact that It had e1ght half stones each wmth All students who attended school here re member the f1re dr111s on the old spmral type f1re escape Enrollment 1ncreased Soon a separate hxgh school was begun 1n the present day St James Ep1scopal Church The next h1gh school was bxult 1n 1919 on the s1te now occup1ed by the Humboldt elementary school It was torn down 1n 1948 after the compleuon of our present h1gh school bulldlng The early h1gh school curr1culum was broad In 1908 O9 courses offeredwereh1story gram mar plane geometry domest1c art algebra l1terature threeyears of Latm sohdgeometry MR CLAUDEC TUELL MR A L. ALEXANDER MR DAVIDH ORR JR Clerk Member Pres1dent Ji 0 ' E . 1 A E A 1 - I . ' ' 1 A SEM .. 5 9 ' ' nw' - - . . A 'Q igfill f Ella HI 9 , - . mf ' ,yew l ' , . 21525 , grail I :ll H 1ts own ground entrance. W M' 5 gllll 5 ,...........,.-...............i , g 0 ' . Q - f E ,gqvooooooo K l , . . I - 1 I . . . I - . . I . - . , - . ' I I I l I D . . , . , . , . , o 0 s - . , '