Silver City

Hello all,

We are spending some pleasant days here in SW New Mexico biking and hiking in 7o degree days.  Don't miss the snow, not one bit. 

Yesterday we hiked a short hike along the bottom of a cliff walled canyon to see an 1875 mining site.  One of the most incredible things about the day was the sycamore trees.  The photo of the tree that Toni is standing by doesn't even begin to demonstrate the size of these giants.  

At the mine site itself there is a cylindrical steam boiler something like 15'X4' in size and made of half inch thick  steel.  Think mini submarine in size.  How they got it up the canyon is one mystery but how they got it to the middle of nowhere is even more of a mystery.  The amount of work done in the name of silver boggles one's mind, but silver makes jewelry, women like jewelry sooo!!!!  

Silver City was founded on mining and is in transition.  The old downtown is full of coffee shops and galleries and eclectic eateries. Sounds familiar somehow.  About twenty miles outside of town a large, very large open pit ore mine is in full swing.   The mine sits in such a way that, unless you are passing by it, you don't see much of it so the two worlds co-exist pretty well.  

Adios mis amigos