Independent that year.
"The Lubin Co. enacted a drama at the
smelter below town, blew up the narrow gauge railroad bridge and two large water tanks and incidentally furnished a has been a leader in providing musement for 2,000 people scattered over the surrounding hills watching the interesting events." Fielding directed a mock labor riot at the smelter and 200 actors rushed up the hill behind the smelter and set fi
re to the water
tanks. As they rand down the hill, the tanks
b
lew up. "The site was a beautiful one, the tanks being shot fully 200 feet in the air
and the rioters and spectators were covered with
- a shower of slingers and rocks." Later, when part of the narrow-gauge rai
- lroad was to be exploded, the cap didn't go off. Undaunte
- d, Fielding grabbed a pi
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stol and fired at the dynamite. The following
day, and old oil house near the smelter was also blown up as part of the bridge scene.
Today, there isn't much left of the operation. Large black slag
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riveways and highways. The "Big Ditch" is
filled with illega
lly dumped trash. Rusted pipes protrude from the ground. Twisted iron
lies with scattered, broken brick.
The burned foundation of the old Continental Ore and Chemica
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- o. fluorspar concen- tra
- torfrom Wo
ld War II rests on the ruins of the old Silver City Reduction Works.
A road toward the sewer 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-
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d conveyer belts by men - and children.
The equipment was "the best known to metallurgical science." While families depended on the operation for a livelihood. And in 1913, a silent movie was filmed at the site by a prominent California movie company which later merged with Warner Brothers.
It was the Silver City Reduction Works, the pride of Silver City and which fro a brief time was a boon to the economy, making mining in the Grant County possible in those early years.
Some 60 years later, there is nothing left of the operation.
The Silver City Reduction Works went by several names before it was finally scaped.
It was originally build by the Hearst 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 e must review and approve your application for the operational-level course before you submit it to very o
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melting included. And that meant copper was among those ores. Copper, in fact, was such a vital part of the smelter's daily operations that depressed copper ma
- rket conditions forced a closur
- e of the smelter. That was in April. On June 30, 30, 1903, the
- plant caught fire and was leveled. Silver City's hopes were dashed since the whole operation was going to be sold and o
- nce again put into productions. The sale took place, anyway, an
- d Comanche Mining Smelting Co. was the new owner. The reduction works were build on a larger
scale. In 1906, the newspaper had this to say: "The b
ig red building in which this ponderous machinery is housed is 72 feet high
and is by f. The ar the most imposing structure in theses parts, being 63 feet in width and
122 feet long.
"A metallic conveyer will carry the ore from the bins to the large crusher, from
whence it will be elevated... the oversize of this going to
The NDPCthe picking belt were boys and men will be employed to pick out the different classes of ore that is to go direct t
- o the smelter. "The water for the mill will be pumped from the arroyo, which passes
- through Silver City and past the smelter...
- The little Silver City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon railro
- ad hauled ore to this smelter, but only briefly. Comanche was ab
sorbed by Savannah Copper Company which operated the plant for a short time. Even at first, Savannah was caug
ht up in the dream
