Nestled on the slopes of the cone-shaped Cleopatra Hill, Jerome was once the third largest city in Arizona and the pride of the territory. She was a veritable mountain of gold, silver and copper.
Long before the coming of the white man the Indians had used her copper, mostly for the pigment. The Spanish explorers found it too, for they left behind some of their tools that would be discovered so
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