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Historic views of the Copper mining town of Sonora, Arizona.

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.)

Location: Sonora, Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030421
Horizontal cut and fill method of copper mining in Jerome, Arizona

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.

Location: Jerome Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030427
Mine tunnel is used for transportation at a copper mine in Jerome, Arizona

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.

Location: Jerome Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030428
Wet drilling technique implemented to drill a stope inside a copper mine in Butte, Montana.

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.

Location: Butte Montana USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030431
Square set timbering shown in a copper mine

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.

Location: Butte Montana USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030432
Wastage of rubber during rash driving on highways in Akron Ohio

Man demonstrates how rubber is wasted during rash driving by quick brakes and rapid turns on highway. A Chevrolet Car stops suddenly leaving tire marks. Man showing rubber particles.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030481
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