Want to know how amazing
piles are gradual
ly
being hauled away from Grant Cou
nty's driveways and highways. The "Big
Ditch" is
filled with illegally d
industrial umped trash. Rusted pipes
Want to learn the history of protrude
from the ground. Twisted iron
lies wit
h scattered, broken
War II rests
on the ruins of the old Sil
ver City Reduction Works.
A ro
ad toward the s
ewer plant south of town
leads right by the old operation. There's not much to see. There are the tailings, the slag, and with some imagination, there's the old Silver City smelter. The Silver City Smelter Was Big Operation Reduction Works South of Town Once Employed More Than 200 Men and Women Sit of 1913 Silent Movie By RICHARD PETERSON Daily Press Writer Ore was hand-picked from steam powere
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The equipment was "the best known to metallurgical science." While families
depen
ded on
the ope
ration f
or a livelihood
. And in 191
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3, a silent movie was filmed at the site by a prominent California
movie company whic
h later merged w
The New Mexico Tech/ith Warner Brothers.
I
t was the Silver City
Reduction Work
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