Opening slate mentions Mexican employees of the Ray copper mine and their company town of about 6000 persons. The camera pans over rooftops of the town of Sonoma, where the Mexican workers lived. (Euro-Americans lived 1 mile North in neighboring town of Ray.) The copper-rich hills are seen in the background. Washington Elementary School can be seen during the camera's pan, beginning at TC: 00:20 through the end of the sequence. (Note: These are now Ghost Towns, having been taken over when Kennecott Copper Corporation expanded its Ray open pit operations in 1965. Reportedly, many former residents re-settled in nearby Towns of Kearny, Winkelman, Superior, and Hayden.)
Smoke rises from burning stopes at a copper mine in Jerome, Arizona. Copper ore is mined by the horizontal cut and fill method. Miners shovel broken ore onto chutes running through plank floor in a stope. Cribs are built above ore chutes in the floor. Waste ore is drawn through a chute car and is dumped in the open stope to fill the stope.
Mine workers arrive at a shaft in cars through a tunnel in copper mine in Jerome, Arizona. Trains of railroad cars enter the mine through a tunnel leading to the underground shaft.
A mine worker wet-drilling at a stope of a copper mine in Butte, Montana. Water is sprayed from drills onto stope walls that makes sludge of the cutting and prevents dust.
Square Set Timbering is seen inside a stope at a copper mine in Butte, Montana. Timber logs provide a support to the soft and broken rock adjoining the veins of the ore. Mine workers drill inside a stope. Timber placed in square set fashion can be seen.
The Woman Suffrage Parade in Washington DC. Parade of 5000 suffragists down Pennsylvania Avenue, led by Inez Milholland, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, on the eve of President Wilson's first inauguration. Groups of women, mostly dressed in white, with signs and banners pass by on horse-drawn floats, on foot, and on horseback. One large sign says "Women of the Bible Lands."
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