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A New Mexico Ghost Town

By Ralph Najarian

35 Pueblitos Road Belen, New Mexico 87002

My little half-ton pickup leaves the Rio Grande Valley behind and climbs the long hill to the Upper Plateau. The Upper Plateau reaches out long and wide toward the Continental Divide, but my little truck turns up a canyon and follows a centuries-old wagon road. The road takes us further up into the mountains, high above the now dwarfed plateau, then past the ruins of an ore smelter built by the Spanish Conquistadors. Another bend or two in the road, then we pause, unlock another gate, then climb even higher into the clear mountain air.

The road becomes steeper now, the transmission groans in low gear and the rusted wheel atop a mine head rig becomes visible over the top of the scrub pine forest. Then winding around the ore hoppers my little truck stops amid mine buildings and equipment.

Once a prosperous commu...

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