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Clip was located below Cibola Lake, near the Clip wash.
The town of Clip was located on the East shore of the Colorado river. It was the shipping point for the silver mine of the same name. The Clip silver mine was located in the Trigo mountains just north of Yuma. It was discovered by two men, Anthony Hubbard and George Bowers in the early 1880's. The town of Clip had a 10 stamp mill which was used to crush the ore from the mine. Clip was never a large town and had at most approximately 200 people living there. A post office was established on Feb. 6, 1884 but it was closed on Oct. 13, 1888. The town also had a general store for provisions. The town existed because of the silver mine which produced more than a million dollars by 1887. In the early 1900's, the mine tailings were reworked by the cyanide process but little activity has been seen since then.
One interesting note is that one of the men who worked at the Red Cloud mine and the La Fortuna mine, found and lost two different outcrops of possibly rich ore. One was a gold outcropping and the other was a silver outcropping. His name was John Nummel and he often walked between the Red Cloud mine and the Clip. He was known to have walked throughout the Trigo mountains. The story of his lost mines can be found in John Nummels's 2 Lost Mines.
There are also small placer gold deposits which have been mined in the small washes on the west side of the Trigo mountains. According to Maureen Johnson in Placer Gold Deposits of Arizona, little is known of the placer mining activity. The deposits are believed to be from the same type of deposits that have been found at the Hardt gold mine and the Broardway and Jupiter claims in the same area.
REFERENCES: Arizona Place Names, by Byrd H. Granger and Ghost Towns of Arizona, by James E. and Barbara H. Sherman
