Did you live in the Rim Country before state route 87 was a
divided highway? Then you remember coming down Slate Creek hill
and driving through the Main Street of a ghost town called
Goswick's Camp. Until 1975 travelers could still see old rock
fireplaces standing, and the green cabins where miners and their
families had lived. Not far from the highway were the long
abandoned operation buildings for the mine. When the highway was
divided and widened, what remained of Goswick Camp was leveled
and covered over. Now, who remembers what was mined there and
why the mining camp was named Goswick? The ore was cinnabar,
from which mercury (often called quicksilver) was taken, and
Wesley Goswick was the man who first staked the claim. Mercury
bearing ore had been found here as early as 1903, and by 1920
the Arizona Mining Journal could say, "The Mazatzal Mountains
have acquired the reputation for cinnabar, an ore of mercury.
This mineral has been found about on the border of Maricopa and
Gila counties." Mercury is ext