Yes, this is a sad day, I was around when they were building the 2nd smokestack and it was excitment all around the school grounds because it meant more work for our fathers, brothers, uncles and for our families around Hurley, North Hurley, Bayard, Central, Santa Rita, Silver City, Deming, Pinos Altos and many communities surrounding Hurley. Our family use to live at “B” street,neighbors with the Rodriguez’s family in the town of Hurley and in the smaller community of North Hurley neighbors with the Lopez’s family. This was an era when Kennecott was in strong production of copper and there was a train in operation from Santa Rita to Hurley on a daily run. Our Uncle David Diaz was a conductor at that time.
I hope that Chino Copper Mines continues the clean up espically the area around the smokestacks. The water around the “B” Ranch is definitely in need of clean up and the surrounding grounds immediately around the old smokestacks. There was a segregated school in operation where the Hurley trailer area is currently located. I attended school there until I was almost eleven years old. The only reminder is a section of an old cement slab. My uncles the Medina brothers and Soto brothers used to play basketball there after school. And many a children would roller skate there.
I ponder was this move premature in destroying the smokestacks when the production of copper is in high demand world wide. Possibly the decision was made a few years back, but now the world wants and needs more copper.
MsPrissy
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Mike Walker
Congrats on being the first to get info from the demolition onto the interwebs!
I was not able to get back to Hurley from San Antonio, TX to see the demolition with my father, and was looking to see if *anyone* was going to have a live feed of it, but sadly, was not to be.
Anyway, thanks for being faster than any of the Albuquerque or El Paso media!
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Priscilla Soltero Ceshkovsky
I went to school with a Jim Walker.
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Adella Luna
My mom grew up in Hurley, Teresa Reyes Murillo. My cousin sent an earlier email about the smokestacks being a landmark and how we’ll have to find something else. I remember traveling on vacation to Hurley from Kansas and my mom would always point out the smokestacks and say we were getting close… We learned to do that throughout the years as we visited on vacations, to look for the smokestacks and know Hurley was close. I live in Kansas and I’m going to miss the smokestacks… :( I will show my mom the video when I get home and I know she will be just as sad! We even bought shirts with the smokestacks on them when visiting in Hurley this last year. Now they will take on a different meaning when we wear them.
Priscilla Soltero Ceshkovsky
Dear Avelino,
Yes, this is a sad day, I was around when they were building the 2nd smokestack and it was excitment all around the school grounds because it meant more work for our fathers, brothers, uncles and for our families around Hurley, North Hurley, Bayard, Central, Santa Rita, Silver City, Deming, Pinos Altos and many communities surrounding Hurley. Our family use to live at “B” street,neighbors with the Rodriguez’s family in the town of Hurley and in the smaller community of North Hurley neighbors with the Lopez’s family. This was an era when Kennecott was in strong production of copper and there was a train in operation from Santa Rita to Hurley on a daily run. Our Uncle David Diaz was a conductor at that time.
I hope that Chino Copper Mines continues the clean up espically the area around the smokestacks. The water around the “B” Ranch is definitely in need of clean up and the surrounding grounds immediately around the old smokestacks. There was a segregated school in operation where the Hurley trailer area is currently located. I attended school there until I was almost eleven years old. The only reminder is a section of an old cement slab. My uncles the Medina brothers and Soto brothers used to play basketball there after school. And many a children would roller skate there.
I ponder was this move premature in destroying the smokestacks when the production of copper is in high demand world wide. Possibly the decision was made a few years back, but now the world wants and needs more copper.
MsPrissy
Mike Walker
Congrats on being the first to get info from the demolition onto the interwebs!
I was not able to get back to Hurley from San Antonio, TX to see the demolition with my father, and was looking to see if *anyone* was going to have a live feed of it, but sadly, was not to be.
Anyway, thanks for being faster than any of the Albuquerque or El Paso media!
Priscilla Soltero Ceshkovsky
I went to school with a Jim Walker.
Adella Luna
My mom grew up in Hurley, Teresa Reyes Murillo. My cousin sent an earlier email about the smokestacks being a landmark and how we’ll have to find something else. I remember traveling on vacation to Hurley from Kansas and my mom would always point out the smokestacks and say we were getting close… We learned to do that throughout the years as we visited on vacations, to look for the smokestacks and know Hurley was close. I live in Kansas and I’m going to miss the smokestacks… :( I will show my mom the video when I get home and I know she will be just as sad! We even bought shirts with the smokestacks on them when visiting in Hurley this last year. Now they will take on a different meaning when we wear them.
Adella Murillo Luna
Ray the Wrecker
What was the result of the air sampling?