BRN 9-4 - Flipbook - Page 10
Beautiful on the ground and
beautiful from space.
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Top of the following page: The White Sands from the top
of Bennett Mountain. Ken Logan and Max Canestorp
(White Sands Missile Range Biologist) in left foreground.
iron, copper, turquoise, coal, ßuorite, and zinc. These
mines, however, were relatively unproductive compared to
other mining districts in surrounding mountain ranges.
We sometimes encountered deep shafts and tunnels,
evidence of the hard rock mining activity which was
widespread in these mountains during the period of
settlement from the late 1880s through the 1930s. The
range held mineral deposits that included gold, silver, lead,
Bottom of the following page: Upper Little San Nicholas
Canyon.
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