Roger Q. Kyle, Globe, Arizona

Roger Q. Kyle of Globe, Arizona, worked chrysotile mines in the mountains north of Globe, and a mill.^7,9 The sources differ on when he began: in 1953 Jack L. Neal, secretary of the Arizona Asbestos Producers Association, called him in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, "one of the oldest producers of the Arizona field," and wrote that Kyle "has been operating continuously since 1912."¹ The association's own newsletter of April 1953, as the trade journal reported it, says that Kyle "located his Sloan Creek Asbestos mines in the year 1915," when there were no roads into the Cherry Creek district: "the ore was packed out and supplies packed in by burro train some 80 miles to the mines."⁵

The properties and the mill

In February 1938 Kyle told Asbestos that he had "struck a rich vein of Arizona asbestos."¹² A year later the trade journal described the Kyle properties as "an investment of about $200,000," in the Sierra Ancha Mountains "about 67 miles northeast of Globe," and "at present inactive."⁶ Most of the "800 acre property" was then reached by road, though from one tunnel the rock had to be mule-packed four miles to a highway.⁶ The same article described Kyle's own patented mill: a "16' by 30' mill house" on a hillside, where the rock was "crushed by two sets of rollers" and screened.⁶

In November 1941 Asbestos, quoting the Arizona Republic, reported a pending deal for a government contract involving three groups of Kyle claims, the Miami Asbestos Group, the Pueblo Group and the Sloan Creek Group, and "the Kyle asbestos mill at Globe."⁷ An estimate in that report gave "a potential output of 3,000 tons of asbestos a year"; the 1939 article had placed the mill house with the properties, not at Globe.^6,7

In the yearbooks

The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook names Roger Q. Kyle among the Globe firms that made sales in 1941 and among those "active" in 1948.^2,3 From 1949 to 1953 the yearbook lists Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona, "P. O. Box 302, Globe," as active.^4,8,13,14,15 In 1952 Kyle was a charter member of the Arizona Asbestos Producers Association, listed for "Kyle Asbestos Mines."¹⁶ The yearbooks for 1954 through 1958 list the firm among those that "produced chrysotile in the Globe district of Arizona," and the yearbook for 1960 among six companies that "reported shipments of asbestos from mines in the Globe district."^{9,10,11,17,18,19}

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹⁹

Location

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1912

• Worked: “Roger Q. Kyle, operating the Kyle Asbestos Mines and mill in Globe ... operating continuously since 1912” (Roger Q. Kyle), said by Jack L. Neal, Secretary, Arizona Asbestos Producers Association, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 16¹

1915

• Opened: “Mr. Kyle located his Sloan Creek Asbestos mines in the year 1915” (Roger Q. Kyle), said by Arizona Asbestos Producers Association (Newsletter, April 1953), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 46⁵

1938

• Exploration: “Roger Q. Kyle of Globe advises he has struck a rich vein of Arizona asbestos” (Roger Q. Kyle), said by Roger Q. Kyle, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 33¹²

1939

• Description: “800 acre property; one tunnel requires mule-packing four miles to a highway; three warehouses with about $30,000 of stock” (Roger Q. Kyle Asbestos Company), p. 15⁶
• Idle: “Kyle properties, an investment of about $200,000, in the Sierra Ancha Mountains about 67 miles northeast of Globe, at present inactive” (Roger Q. Kyle Asbestos Company), p. 14⁶
• Mill: “Kyle's own patented cleaning and segregating mill (Patent No. 1,790,429, 1931); 16' by 30' mill house; two sets of rollers and a four-mesh screening table” (Roger Q. Kyle), p. 15⁶

1941

• Worked: “Sales ... were made by the following companies: ... Roger Q. Kyle ... of Globe, Ariz.” (Roger Q. Kyle), p. 3²
• Description: “Pending deal for a government contract of about $5,000,000; $100,000-$200,000 to equip the Kyle properties; potential output 3,000 tons a year” (Roger Q. Kyle), as reported by Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Ariz.), p. 14⁷
• Mill: “The Kyle asbestos mill at Globe” (Roger Q. Kyle), as reported by Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Ariz.), p. 14⁷

1948

• Worked: “Roger Q. Kyle (active)” (Roger Q. Kyle), p. 2³

1949

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona (active)” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2⁴

1950

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona (active)” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2⁸

1951

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona (active)” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹³

1952

• Worked: “Roger Q. Kyle, Kyle Asbestos Mines” (Roger Q. Kyle), p. 50¹⁶
• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona (active)” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁴

1953

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona (active)” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁵

1954

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines (produced chrysotile in the Globe district)” (Kyle Asbestos Mines), p. 2¹⁷

1955

• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2⁹
• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2⁹

1956

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁰
• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁰

1957

• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹¹
• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹¹

1958

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona produced chrysotile in the Globe district” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁸
• Fiber: “chrysotile” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁸

1960

• Worked: “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona reported shipments of asbestos from mines in the Globe district” (Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona), p. 2¹⁹

Other names

Documents call this mine “Roger Q. Kyle”, “Kyle Asbestos Mines of Arizona”, “Kyle Asbestos Mines”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Arizona
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, October 1953 (October 1, 1953), p. 16.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1941 (January 1, 1942), p. 3.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1948 (January 1, 1949), p. 2.
4. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1949 (January 1, 1950), p. 2.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 46.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1939, February 1939 (February 1, 1939), pp. 14–15.
7. Asbestos Magazine, 1941, November 1941 (November 1, 1941), p. 14.
8. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1950 (January 1, 1951), p. 2.
9. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1955 (January 1, 1956), p. 2.
10. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1956 (January 1, 1957), p. 2.
11. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1957 (January 1, 1958), p. 2.
12. Asbestos Magazine, 1938, February 1938 (February 1, 1938), p. 33.
13. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1951 (January 1, 1952), p. 2.
14. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1952 (January 1, 1953), p. 2.
15. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1953 (January 1, 1954), p. 2.
16. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, June 1952 (June 1, 1952), p. 50.
17. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1954 (January 1, 1955), p. 2.
18. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1958 (January 1, 1959), p. 2.
19. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1960 (January 1, 1961), p. 2.