The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-04-15
Tyrone, Model of Mining Camps, Joins Ranks of Ghost Cities, Temporarily

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 The town of Tyrone, N. M, is nov ing on, lock, stock and barrel Much l of it is going through Fl Paso When the abandonedment is complete what once was a village of 4,500 population will have but a dozen men, guards at the mine there. Closing of the Phelps Dodge Corporation copper mine at Tyrone brought about the modern edition of-the deserted village.
 The abandonment will be virtually complete as far as the Phelps-Dodge corporation is concerned. Hugh H. VII Hams, chairman of the corporation commission of New Mexico, who visit Eed the place few days ago, wrote to the corporation commissions offices at Santa Fe that probably not more than 12 watchmen would be left by the corporation and that, of course, means moving day for hundreds not directly employed by the corporation, but who depended upon the corpora tion in one way or another
 To Move Store Stock
 According to MT Williams, the Phelps-Dodge Mercantile company's stock will be moved from the store to Douglas, Ariz. It was feared in Silv- CT City and other nearby cities that the company would sell the stock at sale prices. Rival businesses didn't view the plan favorably Their fear, however, was groundless, according to MT. Williams, who said the company | would ship the entire stock to Douglas
 at a loss.
 The store of the Phelps-Dodge Mer- cantile company, which apparently will be abandoned when the company va cates it's other property, is one of the finest buildings of the kind. in the state-a large concrete building.
 Railroad Closes Down
 And there will be little use for Ty- rones railway station, built by the Phelps-Dodge people, which is one of the best in the state and described by men who have been there as one that could he pointed to with expanded chest by city 10 times as big as l Tyrone.
 The Fl Paso & Southwestern will 1 discontinue service from Deming to ] Tyrone as soon as the mercantile com 1 p9ny's stock is moved. Two mixed i trains daily have been run over the l branch-one each way From Deminy to Burro Mountain Junction the Fl l Paso & Southwestern used the Santa Yes track and from there to Tyrone I it's own. track The Fl Paso a, .SoutI1- -i western will not run any train at all Ainto the mining city. according to the information received bv the corDora- tion commission, and the only means Of reaching the place will be by motor sta@e. No other railway enters the place.
 Electric Plant Idle T Tyrone has one of the biggest cleo
 tric. power plants in the southwest also built by the Phelps-Dodge people ' fer the operation of the Burro Noun
 tain branch and lighting the camp-ii , that word, can be properly applied tC
 Tyrone. The place also has a hospita theater, library and one of the finest : school buildings in the county-al
 built by the corporation.
 Its anything but typical mining camp said a man who had visited
 TyroRe. AS matter of fact, that; , the last thing you would guess at frs sight of the place from Inspiration
 Point. The bungalows are different those built for the corporations em ployes. They're not all alike as the!
 are in other mining camps. From - Inspiration Point Tyrone looks likt
 southern California city. The bun 2 galows are southern California style Everything is Moving
 MT. Williams in his letter to tn,
 commissions office said:
 They are moving everything out : by this I mean getting all the peopl
 out of Tyrone, closing everything ant leaving only 10 or 12 people watch
 ing the plant in Tyrone, so there vii
 be no necessity for train service t. , Tyrone until business resumes to it
 normal basis again"
 The Burro Mountain branch of tn = Phelps-Dodge people is next to tn . Chino Copper company's property, tn
 biggest copper mining venture in tn : state aud although MT. Williams lei = ter makes no reference to the min , it evidently will be closed down il <. the near future if it has not alread 9 been suspended.
 # Queen of Mining Camps if Making Tyrone the queen city c
 the mining camps of the state cost tn n Phelps-Dodge corporation approximate Il ly s3,OOO,oOO, but abandonment of tn
 place does not mean loss of the bi f. investment. The corporation. of cours A will return when the copper marke
 shows improvement sufficient to wa ,r rant the resumptions at the Burr
 Mountain property.
 O The camp was the pet" of Mr.
 Cleveland H. Dodge, wife of the vic ,r president of the corporation, and tn
 artistic atmosphere of the little cit e. and the costly buildings were the r. Y suit of her interest.
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