ity Reduction Works we

nt by several names
befor e it was finally scaped. It was originall
y build by the Hea

rst family to handle gold and silver ores hauled from their Pinos Altos mines. This were difficult years for the operation, and a final crunch came in 1902. The plans was handling just about every ore it could get - custom smelting included. And that meant copper was among those ores. Copper, in fact, was such a vital part of the smelter's

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• daily operations
• that depresse
• d copper market conditions forced
• a closure of the smelter. That was in
• April. On June 30, 30, 1903, the plant
• caught fire and was leveled. S
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• ilver City's hope
• s were dashed

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• since the whole operation was going to be
• sold and once again put into productions. The sa
• le took place any

way, and Comanche

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• Mining Sm
• elting Co. was the new

owner. The reduction works were build