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GC Tabloid 2006 ! s e d i n r a e s e Historic e 7 l i h l r t e t a l u G l o Silv er City Area a h g g e u h y o n r t a h m t y e s o h p j t o n t h i s E s t i f V i Scenic g TOURS GATEWAY TO 3..3 MILLION ACRES OF SOLITUDE s it ir Sp n ai nt u s Mo a re he 4 A t -1 g f 9 in o s d l e r i g Bi a Pa 0 Tr 2 r he e t Ov y jo En GRANT COUNTY SILVER CITY GRANT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 201 N. Hudson • Silver City, NM 88061 (505) 538-3785 • 1-800-548-9378 Web: www.silvercity.org Email: [email protected] Special funding from the Grant County Lodgers Tax. BBIIEENVENNIIDOOS S WWIILLKKOOMMMEEN N WELCOME TO Some of the WELCOME TO most historic happenings of the Southwest await you at SILVER CITY the Silver City Museum. We hope your stay will be enjoyable. Let us know if we can make your visit more memorable. We’re proud of our multi-cultural community . with our Four Gentle Seasons and warm hospitality. You’ll be attracted to the wonders of two nations, the many ancient cultures, and climate zones, ranging from 4000 to 10,000 feet. Browse through these pages . and be prepared to have your expectations exceeded! n o t r Silver City Grant County u l B e i k Chamber of Commerce c a J : 201 N. Hudson Street o t o h P Silver City, NM 88061 • (505) 538-3785 [email protected] y a www.silvercity.org m e L Walk through history along h t i 1-800-548-9378 e K : the streets of old mining o t o h towns. Dance with the P ghosts of dancehall girls and miners attired in their finest. Mines like the Little Fanney, the Princess, the Bullfrog. GRANT COUNTY make history come alive. Edited by Keith LeMay Designed by Zia Publishing Photos by Joe Burgess unless otherwise noted. Funded in part by Grant County Lodgers Tax 2 † Over 20 birding areas TableofContents Historic Silver City Area Scenic Tours 4-7 Silver City Day Trip 1 Silver City and its wonderful history will come to life, as you travel with us on your tour. Standing like 8-14 Trail of the Mountain Spirits giants in the Scenic Byway Day Trip 2 vast greatness Follow the footsteps of the prehistoric cultures— of Southwest Apaches, Spanish explorers, Mexican farmers, miners—those who walked this area. New Mexico 8 Pinos Altos Day Trip 1B are the natural Walk through the 1860’s in this historic mining town in tall pine country. monuments 9-11, 17 Gila Cliff Dwellings Day Trip 2 known as the City of Rocks. Trail of the Mountain Spirits Scenic Byway Jump back 700 years in history as you walk through the cave homes of the ancient Mogollon Indians. 13-18 Features & Events Day Trips 4&5 Three million acres of national forest, golfing, tennis, birding, hiking, art galleries, rockhounding — an invigorating opportunity & memorable experience. Info on Day Trips 4 & 5. 7, 12 Maps Tour maps of Silver City, Trail of the Mountain Spirits Scenic Byways, Gila High Country (Glenwood/Mogollon) 21 Mimbres An ancient culture walked these river banks, grew crops—and disappeared. Today, modern life thrives. 21 City of Rocks As you walk through the Gila Cliff Dwellings, you can almost imagine what it would have been like to live here so many years ago. Bring a vivid imagination when you’re among these beautiful weather-carved giants. WILLKOMMEN nach Silberstadt! Wir hoffen dass sich ihr Besuch lohnen wird. 20-23 Gila High Country Day Trip 3 Vor Millionen von Jahren geschmolzene Felsen lagerten Auslaeufer von Kupfer, Silber und Gold hier ab, und machten diese Gegend die reichste des Suedwestens. The Catwalk is a must—Whitewater Creek frothing far below you, rushing through the narrow canyon. Die ersten Indianer bauten Tuerkis ab, und in 1804 gruben die Spanier Kupfer. In 1870 endeckten amerikanische Schuerfer Silber in den Bergen. 24-25 Mining Day Trip 6 Silberstadt nutzte ihr trockenes und hohes Klima aus und oeffnete einige Copper mining from open pit to pure copper. View Sanatorien. Allmaehlich wurden mehr Mineralentdeckungen in der Umgebung 200-ton trucks, giant shovels, & modern technology. gemacht. Silberstadt wurde das Zentrum des Handels. Wir hoffen dass Sie unsere Gegend geniessen werden! Auf baldiges 25 Ft. Bayard Wiedersehen! From Buffalo Soldiers to tuberculosis sanatorium to ¡BIENVENIDOS a la Ciudad de Plata! Esperamos que encuentres que tu veteran and geriatric care—giving service since 1863. visita valga la pena. Hace milliones de años que piedra fundida llevó concentraciones de cobre, plata 26-27 Billy the Kid y oro a la superficie aquí, e hizo esta area una de la más ricas del Sudoeste. Los In school, Billy grew up as a normal boy . and primeros indios minaron la turquesa. En 1804 los españoles minaron el cobre. En then something changed. 1870 buscadores americanos descubrieron plata en las montañas. 27 Other Famous Names La Ciudad de Plata aprovechó su clima seco y altura. Gradualmente se hicieron descubrimientos de más minerales en el área. La Ciudad de Plata se volvió un Roosevelt, Hearst, Geronimo, Billy the Kid, centro de comercio. Kit Carson, Cochise, Astronaut Jack Schmitt . Esperamos que disfrutes nuestra area. Y que vuelvas pronto. 3 Silver City In 1870, a group of American prospectors discovered silver in the hil just above the cienega (marshy area), and the rush was on. In ten short months, the newly-christened Silver City grew from a single cabin to DAY TRIP 1 - will take you through the historic section of Silver City and on to the old mining town of Pinos Altos with a side trip to the Phelps Dodge Tyrone Open pit mine. MAP PAGE 7 Big Ditch Park (Site 10) with Warren house (Site #15) in background illions of years ago, fingers of way to the Mexico border. market. Mines closed down. Silver City molten rock deposited the cop- In spite of the crude methods, Silver paused, caught its breath, and then M per, silver and gold that would City mills were producing $16,000 of moved ahead. The use of brick was make this one of the Southwest’s bullion a week by 1875. encouraged by an 1880 fire ordinance richest mineralized areas. Early Indians It soon became the supply center for which prohibited frame construction, mined turquoise, and by 1804 the the booming industry. By the end of saving Silver City from the destructive Spanish were digging for copper east of 1872, a local brick plant enabled solid, fires of many western towns. Perhaps its what came to be called the San Vicente well-built businesses and houses to be sturdy brick architecture helped it defy a Ciénega (today’s Silver City). built. In 1875, the first fire engine in ghost town’s fate. Maybe it was the Silver Discovered. In the spring of the NM Territory made it possible for populace of Hispanics and Anglos, 1870, the news reached Pinos Altos of a a volunteer fire department to be determined to make this their home. formed. When the government The cattle industry was well-developed Boys, if this is whattelegraph line reached Fort Bayard in with some large holdings extending as silver looks like, we 1876, local citizens furnished the far south as Mexico. At the turn of the have plenty at home . m.ate. rials to connect Silver City with century, Silver City’s high, dry climate the outside world. made it a haven for invalids and Silver City Charter. In 1878 Silver tubercular patients. One of the state’s big silver strike at Shakespeare, near City was granted a territorial charter first teaching schools prospered. Event- today’s Lordsburg. under which the town operates today, ually, with new mineral discoveries, the Captain John Bullard and his men one of the oldest of the few territorial town stabilized as the leading metal producer in the state. rode south to investigate. After exam- ...the charter allows us mining the ore, one of the men said, — edited from Helen Lundwall history The Big Ditch (Site 1-10). After “Boys, if this is what silver looks like, to tax, operate bawdy July 21, 1895, Silver City’s Main Street we have plenty of it at home.” They houses, gambling... was no longer the principal artery. hurried back, and began to dig one half — current 1878 Territorial CharFtloeor dwaters engulfed the streets as “an mile west of the present courthouse. immense wall of rolling water, 12' high Ore from the Legal Tender assayed as charters in the U.S. The city was one of and 300’ across, roared through the heart high as 100 ounces of silver per ton, a the first to establish a public school, and of town.” By the next morning, the real bonanza. News of the “Ciénega in 1882, became the first independent Mines” quickly spread. school district in New Mexico . Town of Silver City Originated. In The Southern Pacific Railroad ten short months, Silver City grew from reached Deming in 1881, inspiring HIGHLIGHTS a single cabin to over eighty buildings, local citizens to build a branch line to Billy the Kid sites (4, 5, 21, 23) and in 1871, Silver City became the Silver City. Telephones were first Tyrone Mine (8) county seat.
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