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The 300 to 400 inhabitants of Santa Rita fled south toward the Janos presidio, 150 miles (241.4 km) away, but the Apache killed nearly all of them en route. Afterwards, the Santa Rita mine was only occasionally in operation until 1873, when Apache chief Cochise signed a peace agreement with the U.S. and the mine was reopened. [5] [6]
In 1838, the 300 to 400 inhabitants of Santa Rita fled south toward the presidio at Janos, Chihuahua, 150 miles away, but the Apache killed nearly all of them en route. After that, Santa Rita was only occasionally operational until 1873 when Apache chief Cochise signed a peace agreement with the US and the mine was reopened. [ 9 ]
Romero, Anthony (2007) Finding the Lost Santa Rita/Janos Trail, Silver City Museum, Silver City, New Mexico, OCLC 631774496 This article about a location in the Mexican state of Chihuahua is a stub .
The El Chino is an open-pit copper mine near Silver City, New Mexico. The Santa Rita mine in southwest New Mexico was the first copper mine in what is now the western United States. Spaniards began mining copper there about 1800. The district still produces copper, from the large Chino Mine open pit.
These railroads caused an early 1880s mining boom in such locales as Tombstone, Arizona, Bisbee, Arizona, and Santa Rita, New Mexico, the latter two world class copper producers. From Bisbee, a third sub-transcontinental was built across the Gadsden Purchase, the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad , to El Paso by 1905, then to a link with the ...
Fort Santa Rita was created in 1804 by the Spanish to protect the copper mines of Santa Rita (Grant County), in New Mexico. It had a triangular shape and three towers. It was built by a civilian, Manuel Elguea. It was the target of constant attacks by the Apaches and in 1838 it was abandoned by the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
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The State of New Mexico amends its Constitution changing the name of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts to New Mexico State University. April 1 The 1960 United States census enumerates the population of the State of New Mexico, later determined to be 951,023, an increase of 39.6% since the 1950 United States census .