When I was about 8 or 9 years old my father took us there where he was born and lived a few years (likely during the Spanish Flu) period similar to the last two years here in the U.S. where 650,000 Americans died of the Spanish flu from 1918 to 1920).
So, being as remote as this location is away from most people likely was a good idea then. I have pictures of my father at age 2 in 1918 when he was sitting on one of my grandfather's hunting hound dogs who saved his life then from an attack by a wild animal upon my then 2 year old father.
The fox or coyote tried to eat my father and took a bite out of him before his older brother and their dog saved his life. The animal bit within a 100th of an inch of his liver. The doctor later said that if the bite was any deeper my father would have died then. Morenci Arizona was very remote when I visited it in 1956 and might be that remote still. I'm not sure because I haven't been there since then. However, a lot of people have moved to parts of Arizona because many parts of especially southern Arizona are warm even in the winters which is why people like living there for some of the same reason as why people like Palm Springs in California (even though it can often get 125 degrees in Palm Springs a few days every summer). However, here are the temperatures this week for example in palm springs to give you an idea that this place is fairly warm year around.
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