orks 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
Dr. Daniel H. Lopez
Altos mines.
This were difficul
t years for the opera
tion, and a fin
al crunch came in 1902. The plans was ha
ndling just about every ore it co
- uld get - custom
- smelting incl
- uded. And that
- meant cop
- per was among
- those ores. Copp
- er, in fact, was su
- ch a vital part of the smel
- ter's daily operations that depressed coppe
r market conditions forced a closure o
f the smelter. That was in April.
- On June 30, 30,
- 1903, the plant caught
- fire and was leve
- led. S
- ilver Ci
- ty's hopes were
dashed since the whole o
peration was going to be sold and once aga
- in put in
- to productions.
- The sale took place anyway,
- and Comanche Min
- ing Smelting
- Co. was the
- new owner. The reduction work
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s were build on a larger scale.
- In 1906,
- the newspaper had th
- is to s
- ay: "The big
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red building in which this
ponderous machinery is housed is 72
- feet high and is by far
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ucture in theses parts
, being 63 feet in width and 122 feet lon
- g. "A metallic conveyer will carry the ore from
- the bins to the large crusher, from wh
- ence it will be elevated... the oversize of this going to the pic
- king belt were boys and men will be employed to pick out
- the different classes of ore that is to go direct to the
smelter. "The water for the
mill will be pumped from the
- arroyo, which p
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- melter... The
