Indians mined turquoise for centuries in the mountains in extreme southwestern New Mexico; the small knives and hatchets they left behind prompted the Spanish to name the range Hachita. American prospectors explored the area around 1875, and in 1877 A.H. Butterfield discovered copper, lead and silver about 45 miles southwest of present-day Deming. The area …
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