Historical information about the wartime imprisonment of the people of Japanese ancestry at one of America's concentration camps, called the "Colorado River Relocation Center".
Sources:
1. Poston High School 30 year reunion booklet. Camp No. 3 Poston, Arizona
Sept 20-21, 1975. San Jose Hyatt House, San Jose, California.
2. Poston Echoes Poston III Reunion booklet, Aug 11-13, 1978, San Diego, California
3. Poston Camp III Reunion booklet, April 17-19, 1981, Hacienda Inn, Fresno, California
Warvarovsky, Francis-12th grade Core Studies, Latin, No Man's Club-advisor
Washler, Barbara-Journalism, 8th grade Core Studies, High School Annual-advisor, Hi-Times-advisor, Jr High Spotlight-advisor
Waterman, Edith-12th grade English, Core Studies
Yada, George-Mechanical Drafting
Yamamoto, Mary-Homemaking Class
Yamane, Sachiko
Warvarovsky, Frances- Core, Latin
Yamamoto, Mary-Home Economics
Sources: * Dusty Exile: Looking Back at Japanese Relocation in World War II , by Catherine Embree Harris. Mutual Publishing; Honolulu:1999. ISBN 9781566472753
1. Poston Echoes Poston III Reunion booklet, August 11-13, 1978
San Diego, California
2. Campus Echoes 1945 Yearbook
3. Poston III High School 1944 Yearbook
In 1854 Charles Poston, came to Arizona to explore. Charles was appointed the agent in charge of Indian Affairs by Abraham Lincoln and later became known as the “Father of Arizona”. Poston then aligned with Major General Samuel Heintzelman. In 1856,
Heintzelman rediscovered the now famous, “Cerro Colorado Mine”, known by many as “The richest Silver Mine in the world”. Then, to expand his holdings, he started the Sonora Exploration & Mining Company and set up a Board of Directors that included Mr. Samuel Colt, of the revolver fame, who put up $10,000. The mine produced silver ore with the high grade assaying upwards of 9,000 ounces of silver per ton. The very richest ore assayed 12,000 ozs, per ton and was 50% pure silver.
With Apaches on the warpath, the Cerro Colorado was intermittingly mined from the 1860’s-1880’s. By 1908, veins 30 ft wide of high grade silver ore were discovered and mined to a depth of 350 ft. During this period other mines were opened that included the Clark, Colorado & Liberty mines. With the outbreak of WWI mining at the mining in the Cerro District came to a halt and during the war the mining and milling equipment was stolen and taken into Mexico.
After the WWI attempts were made to reopen and produce from the mines. These attempts were partially successful as silver ores with grades of 600-1500 ounces per ton were produced and shipped to various smelters.
