It is indeed quiet in here - probably partly a result of the weather getting nicer all over and people taking vacations and not wanting to hang out inside on the computer
Cub, nice to read ya'.
I can't go outside because just walking to the mailbox can cause you to ignite. DAMN its hot here. LOL
I grew up here, and as I've mentioned, spent a lot of time up in Superior with my cousins... running around and trying to avoid the usual dangers of desert life, snakes, wild boar and drug runners.
Yes, the 'company' has invested an enormous amount of money, and I do mean an enormous amount. They completely refurbished the really old hospital, and then put a gate and guard on it. I believe they use the facility as a office complex.
5 years ago, the little city perked up and thought they were going to come to life again, after a long sleep. Artists were purchasing houses and an art league was assembled. After nothing else happened all went back to the sleepy little copper and drug town that it has been for a long time.
I've been out picking up the Apache Tears myself and ruined my expensive sunglasses by having them and the tears in my pocket.
I've even stomped thru a little known very old garbage dump, that is a lot of fun. Its from the original mining camp over 100 yrs ago.
We have seen copper prices going so high that idiots are willing to try and heist it from electrical high wires, with the threat of death being little deterent.
My cousin's all worked for the 'company' and one went into the operational side and was shipped all over the world, but decided he didn't want to live in Indonesia and the armed guards kind of life style... he once rather cryptically said to me... 'there is plenty of metals on this planet', he's the quiet type, and doesn't answer questions. Which I find very annoying.
But driving around with my Aunt and exploring the mostly dead little town, I got the strong impression that the little hope that had come with the re-opening of Magma, died rather quickly. I'm left to my own thoughts with this, but its my belief that Magma doesn't want the little town to ignite.
Magma purchased most of the quaint downtown, and now it sits, empty mostly. You can see the mining in the background, but nothing else.
The legend of Apache Leap seems to just permeate the entire area, the land is left fowl, though very new cars troll the hilly little suburbs.
The place has always made me sad, but I felt a different kind of sad this time... the monument I showed was to the miners and the lives lost. My uncle was amoung the 'lost' ones. But the feeling is more malevolent than sad now.
It makes me wonder if something more is found along my quirky 33rd parallel, I wonder if the tunnel system that Geronimo reputed to pop in and out of has been found, why let the town fail.. if the mine is so very rich.
Janiece
For example, there are numerous "Liar's Contests" that can be great fun, but not a single "Honesty Contest" - though I hear there is a TV show something like that, I very much doubt how much "fun" nor useful it would be to have absolute honesty.
MB
