[5] Chittenden arranged for a series of relay riders between the telegraph office in Casa Grande and his camp site just outside the reservation.

[4] News of the boundary change arrived late on Christmas Eve prompting Chittenden and his partner, N. H. Mellor, to immediately set out for the old claim sites.

[3] The pair staked their claim during the early morning hours and later stated, "We filled our stockings and named the place Christmas in honor of the day.

[3] By 1919 the town boasted a meat market, general store, billiards hall, and two club houses, one for the Hispanic workers and the other for the Whites.

It reopened four years later when the Miner Products Company established a concentration operation capable of processing 500 tons of copper ore per day.

With the town's declining population making operations unprofitable, the Christmas post office closed for a final time on March 30, 1935.

[8] In addition to normal mining activities the site was the discovery location for several minerals, including apachite, junitoite, and ruizite.