Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Erin

Manky.

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Here for my ghost story filled lecture series or any of the numerous conventions and strange

escapes trips I have coming up.

Hope to see you in person soon.

In 1877, prospectors made a discovery in a canyon in Arizona's Mule Mountains, just

eight miles from the Mexican border.

The ground underneath the area known as Mule Gulch was rife with copper.

About three years later, a town was formed.

By 1910, more than 25,000 people had arrived in Bizby, seeking out their fortunes.

Throughout the 2,000 miles of mining tunnels under the town, people mined copper, silver,

and gold, and a rare and precious kind of turquoise price today called Bizby Blue, that

was discarded as mining by product in the early days.

The copper queen mine was Bizby's most productive mine, producing an unusually high grade of

copper ore.

But it wasn't just the town's most productive mine.

It was bringing in the highest yields in all of Arizona.

In the midst of the mining boom and all the wealth coming from it, the town needed a luxury

hotel.

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