This silent 16mm home movie shot in the 1940s starts with images of the Copper Queen Mine in Morenci, Arizona at :29. You will also see images of the town including the Morenci Hotel, completed in the fall of 1903 at a cost of $25,000. It had 2 dining rooms and 22 guest rooms. It’s visible at :41. At 1:31, the film appears to show the road to the gigantic copper smelter. The smokestack can be seen at 2:20. At 2:27 are leeching ponds for copper substrates. At 2:59, the filmmaker takes a drive up into the hills to a scenic outlook, and shoots the open pit. At 4:17 some of the mine’s apparatus is shown including hoists. At 6:00 a cattle ranch is seen. At 7:50, part of Central Avenue in Phoenix is shown, with a couple of churches including the First Church of Christ at 9:00. At 9:13 the Westward Ho Hotel is seen. At 9:20 a rodeo is shown. At 11:40 a citrus grove is seen with a tractor being run to till the soil. At 12:20 a cactus forest is seen in the desert. At 12:41 a sign for the Apache Trail is seen. The Apache Trail in Arizona was a stagecoach trail that ran through the Superstition Mountains. It was named the Apache Trail after the Apache Indians who originally used this trail to move through the Superstition Mountains.

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