" it said.
The whole operation
- lik e the narrow-gauge railroad - never
really panned
ou
t. The operation was idle for several years until 1913. Then, Romaine Fielding and the Lubin Motion Picture Company came to town, and the abandoned smelter caught
the director's eye.
"Sundy was
a thrilling day for the Silver City people," said the Independent that year. "The Lubin Co. enacted a dram