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Page 230
... smelter at Pueblo and assayed twenty percent zinc , the smelter dumped the whole lot into the Arkansas River . Some mining continued to be done in the nineties , although the silver crash of 1893 put a temporary stop to production . The ...
... smelter at Pueblo and assayed twenty percent zinc , the smelter dumped the whole lot into the Arkansas River . Some mining continued to be done in the nineties , although the silver crash of 1893 put a temporary stop to production . The ...
Page 299
... smelting it was too great to keep the camp going . In the hope of reducing this expense , a smelter was erected in 1881 but it was not equipped to handle the low - grade ores and lay idle for years . The price of silver also declined ...
... smelting it was too great to keep the camp going . In the hope of reducing this expense , a smelter was erected in 1881 but it was not equipped to handle the low - grade ores and lay idle for years . The price of silver also declined ...
Page 432
... smelters , D. Duyckinck & Co. and G. H. Stoiber ran ore sampling works down near the railroad tracks . Today only dingy dumps mark the smelter sites , for the buildings have long since been razed . Silverton began as the heart of the ...
... smelters , D. Duyckinck & Co. and G. H. Stoiber ran ore sampling works down near the railroad tracks . Today only dingy dumps mark the smelter sites , for the buildings have long since been razed . Silverton began as the heart of the ...
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