SILVER CITY, NM Took a little side trip to Silver City, which is just 50 miles north of here. There are signs that Mimbres culture were in this area long ago and were mining copper and turquoise for centuries before they, like a lot of the indigenous native people, disappeared. The Apache Indians were in the area and mining copper when the Spaniards came along. Silver City is a very interesting little place, named of course because they found silver and started mining it in1870. Unlike a lot of these silver rush/gold rush towns however, the town’s founders decided Silver City would be built to last and that it would not meet the fate of many mining towns which often burnt to the ground over night. The tents and shacks that initially housed the miners
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