W. B. Millar, Publicity on J-M's Chrysotile, Arizona, Mine and New Mill for the News Pictorial (1941)

A 16-page J-M file of October 1941: a short news item for the company's News Pictorial, prepared by W. B. Millar, mining geologist, at the request of the manager at Chrysotile and submitted to C. H. Shoemaker for approval, followed by pages of captioned photographs. The item reports that demand for "the white, low-iron asbestos" from J-M's Chrysotile property northeast of Globe, Arizona, had brought a new mill, a larger power plant, living quarters for new employees and an improved canyon road. Captions date the mill construction to August and September 1941 and mention the "Sonora, Mexican workmen's village" beside it.

What it shows

The mine reopened in 1940 after years out of regular production; see Corporate History of the Arizona Asbestos Association, with Its 1922 Land Patent (c. 1942) and Johns-Manville Products Corporation, Chrysotile (Arizona) Mines Fiber Production and Reopening Costs (1943).