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| | A cover from historic Silver City, New Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Silver City, in southwestern New Mexico, is saturated with the kind of history that fired the imagination of the little boy that I was in the early 1950s. |
 | | From April 1, 1879, through June 30, 1887, the US letter rate to Mexico had been 5c per 1/2 ounce, but on July 1, 1887, it was lowered to 2c per ounce to match the US domestic letter rate. |
 | | I had assumed that it was a copper mine, for copper has long been the economic mainstay of the area, and copper ore is frequently veined with lovely azure colors. |
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