Chrysotile Arizona: 1914 to 1945 (2007)

A 2007 local history by Gene Knuckey, published by Wheatmark in Tucson, of Chrysotile, Arizona, an asbestos mining camp in Ash Creek Canyon later run by Johns-Manville, from 1914 until it closed on May 31, 1945. Drawing on superintendent Frank Knuckey's notes and pictures, it covers room-and-pillar mining, burro and truck haulage, and camp life. It reproduces newspaper clippings, including one on a deputy mine inspector's safety report. It says Chrysotile was billed in 1929 as the largest underground asbestos mine on the continent.