Morenci - A Beauty Of A Copper Mine

Morenci Mine in Southeast Arizona, about 50 miles northeast of Safford, is an open-pit copper mining complex. It is one of North America's largest producers of copper and one of the largest open-pit mines in the world.

Morenci operates continuously and has a workforce of 2000 plus employees, producing 840 million pounds of copper per year. It mines 830,000 tons of rock per day. Morenci is a "zero-discharge" operation. Virtually all of the water used at Morenci is recycled, some of it many times over. Morenci's operations pioneered the use of GPS system technology and computer-controlled dispatching in its haul trucks, shovels and other heavy equipment. The history of mining in Morenci, Arizona is still being written.

Sometimes, mining and nature get along remarkably well. Morenci Mine in has become a haven for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. One explanation for the sheep's attraction to the mine is that the human activity keeps predators away. The sheep dot the Morenci landscape, seemingly comfortable around the hustle and bustle of the mine. They are so prevalent that it's easy to tell that the 200 to 300 bighorn sheep that roam the countryside are healthy and hardy - so much so that the Morenci herds are being used to establish or replenish other herds around.

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Pump Jack A Texas Icon

People have been pumping oil for thousands of years, and, while there is some dispute as to the first modern oil well, its construction can be placed some time in the 1850s. The pump jack didn’t come onto the scene until almost 70 years later. However, the distinctive appearance of the pump jack has become iconic and these devices are often used as symbols of the oil and gas industry.

It was in a Texas oil field that the first modern-day pump jack drastically changed the face of drilling in 1925. The pumpjack, an oil field icon known by many names like oil horse, donkey pumper, nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, rocking horse, beam pump, dinosaur, sucker rod pump (SRP), grasshopper pump, Big Texan, thirsty bird, or jack pump - consists of a long beam moved by an external power source. There are a lot of pumpjacks dotting the Texas landscape.

The evolution of technology for pumping oil from the ground is reflected in thousands of small, marginally producing oil wells reaching deep into often stubborn reserves. Marginal oil and natural gas wells number about 650,000 of the nation’s 876,000 wells. Once shutdown, they are lost forever. Keeping them in production has long been a challenge for a special breed of oilman, one who combines technical skills with hard work in the field.

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Bell Tower Mission San Jose, TX

San José y San Miguel de Aguayo Mission, one of the five Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas, was founded in the early eighteenth century. Numerous Indian groups were represented at San José. The mission was to acquaint the Indians with Christian teaching, European values, and vocational skills and to convert them to useful citizens of the empire.
In the summer of 1794 Governor Manuel Muñoz carried out the secularization of San José, a process whereby some of the mission holdings were distributed among proprietors. With the departure of the last Franciscan, Father José Antonio Díaz de Léon, in 1824, San José Mission was formally closed after more than a century of service. Beginning about 1813, troops were stationed intermittently at the mission. They caused considerable damage. The steps to the bell tower fell in 1903, and the tower itself tumbled down in 1928.

In 1932 major restoration was started on the mission structures. The church, which had lost its dome, bell tower, and a wall, was rededicated in 1937. The mission grounds were declared a national and state historical site in 1941, and on November 10, 1978, San José Mission became part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.

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Tower Life Building San Antonio

The Tower Life Building in San Antonio, Texas, which opened in 1929, was originally named the Smith-Young Tower, and conceived as part of a larger complex called Bowen's Island Skyscrapers, which included the 1927 Plaza Hotel. This project was halted by the Great Depression.

The eight sided, neo-gothic brick and terra-cotta tower (complete with gargoyles) was San Antonio's tallest building for 59 years until completion of the Marriott Rivercenter in 1988. It also was San Antonio's tallest office building for 60 years until the completion of the Weston Centre in 1989. In 1991 the Tower Life Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2010 work began to remove an obsolete 164-foot television antenna that was installed in 1953. The original crown was restored and topped with a 100-foot flagpole.

The octagonal edifice has the appearance of an elaborate lighthouse, a beacon in the darkness. Pointed arches and a beautiful green tile roof give the building its European context. At night, dramatic lighting adds height and intensity to the tower, which, like Gothic cathedrals, emphasizes by refined vertical ascent the desire of humanity to reach out to mysteries far beyond.

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San Fernando Cathedral - San Antonio, TX

Located at the historic center of the city, San Fernando Cathedral and its surrounding plazas served as the center of daily life in San Antonio throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The church building as it exists today is part Spanish Colonial that dates from 1739 together with a larger, French Gothic-style nave which was added about 1874. This church is the oldest operating cathedral in the United States.

While its current structure has been greatly expanded and renovated over the years, the walls of the original church form the sanctuary of the cathedral today. Built with austere white stone and twin steeples, the San Fernando De Bexar Cathedral has a commanding presence at first glance. In traditional French Gothic form, the interior of the San Fernando Cathedral is a feast for the eyes. Admire the statues, intricate detail found in the stained glass windows and dramatic columns and archways. The history of the cathedral is collectively told through icons and objects throughout.

The Cathedral of San Fernando isn't just a historical landmark and a sanctuary that provides a place for worship, but has become the ecumenical, cultural, civic and service center of San Antonio, TX.

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Mission San Jose - San Antonio, TX

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in Texas plays a key role in telling the story of Spanish colonialists and Native Americans of the Southwest.

The park preserves the largest intact concentration of Spanish Colonial buildings in the United States today, including exquisite mission churches with their Romanesque, Moorish, and Spanish baroque designs, dating as far back as 1720. More than 1.2 million people visit San Antonio Missions National Historical Park each year.

All four mission churches - San Jose, Concepcion, San Juan, and Espada - are still active Catholic parishes and churches. They represent an unbroken connection from present day hustle and bustle of the seventh largest city in the country, to the time when San Antonio was part of the sparsely populated northern frontier of New Spain.

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Welcome To The State Of Texas

Explored by the Spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries, Texas became a province of Mexico. In 1836 Texans declared independence from Mexico as the Republic of Texas (Stephen Austin; Sam Houston). After a 10-year struggle to remain independent, Texas became the 28th U.S. state in 1845. Its boundary with Mexico was confirmed after the Mexican-American War (1848).

In the American Civil War Texas seceded from the Union (1861); it was readmitted in 1870. After the war, railroad building and increased shipping helped expand the economy, and the discovery of oil in 1901 transformed it. While Texas still leads all other states in oil and natural gas production and in petroleum-refining capacity, its manufacture of electronics, aerospace components, and other high-technology items is increasingly important. It is also a leading cotton, cattle, and sheep producer in the U.S.

Today Texas is the second largest state in both area and population. Since the 1960s three sons (or adopted sons) of Texas have been president of the United States: Lyndon Johnson, George Herbert Walker Bush, and George Walker Bush.

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San Antonio Mission Walk San Jose

The missions of San Antonio are a main factor in the history of Texas and the core of the development of the city of San Antonio.

The legacy and history of San Antonio and this region began with a simple ceremony when in 1718 Franciscans and Spanish representatives established the first mission. Within 13 years, five were located along the San Antonio River. The missions’ purpose? To acculturate and Christianize the native population and make them Spanish citizens.

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo was the largest and the most known in the 1720s and was know as "The Queen of the Missions." Founded by Fray Antonio Margil de Jsu’s, it was know as the model of Texas missions. Mission San José served as an economic enterprise involved in agricultural and ranching endeavors and regional trade, and a vocational and educational center.

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Saint Michael The Archangel

In 1720, Fray Antonio Margil de Jesús founded what became the best known of the Texas Missions, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo. The unique architecture of its church and the richness of its fields and pastures led visitors to comment on its beauty.

The present church of Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas, was begun in 1758. It was not completed until 1782 but became "the most beautiful church along the entire frontier of New Spain. Mission San José underwent a $2.2 million historically accurate renovation that was completed in the summer of 2011. Interior domes and walls were repainted to match the original colors and hues. Work also included restoration of the "retablo," or altar backdrop, which frames sacred statues of St. Michael the Archangel, for whom the mission is named, St. Francis, the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph. The latter two statues are hand-carved and date to the Spanish colonial era. The St. Joseph statue was originally in the possession of Father Antonio Margil de Jesús, the mission’s founder, and had not been used in the church for decades.

The size of the Mission complex bears witness to San José’s reputation as the "Queen of the Missions."

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Mission San Jose In San Antonio

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo is a historic Catholic mission in San Antonio, Texas, USA. It was founded on February 23, 1720 to serve the Coahuiltecan Indians.

The church, which is still standing, was constructed in 1768 from local limestone. It is still in operation. The Mission rounds are expansive. They provide a peaceful walk and give you a sense of the community that they must have had back then. The old mill in the back is still functioning, and where the arches are today is what is left of the old convent. Even though the Alamo in the middle of downtown San Antonio has the glamor of a legendary story with legendary figures in history, you can sense the history in a place like Mission San José much more than at the Alamo.

The mission lands were given to its Indians in 1794, and mission activities officially ended in 1824. After that, the buildings were home to soldiers, the homeless, and bandits. In the 1930s Mission San Jose was restored and is now part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. This gorgeous and historical "Queen of the Missions" is a great place to begin or end the San Antonio Missions Trail!

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The Alamo Cenotaph - San Antonio, TX

From the Greek words kenos, (empty) and taphos, (tomb) - cenotaphs are tombs or monuments erected to honor a person or persons whose remains are elsewhere or their whereabouts unknown. Quite frequently cenotaphs are erected for soldiers killed in distant places or sailors lost at sea. This one in San Antonio's Alamo Plaza is sometimes referred to as "The" Cenotaph.

The Alamo Cenotaph in San Antonio, TX is a beautiful memorial to the men who died defending the ancient Alamo mission in 1836 against the army of Santa Anna rather than surrender to overwhelming odds. The sculpture stands adjacent to the old mission and is one of the largest works of famed Italian-born sculptor Pompeo Coppini from a design envisioned by architect Carlton Adams. The memorial stone of gray Georgia marble rests upon a slab base of pink Texas granite. The theme of the monument is 'The Spirit of Sacrifice'. On the north side appears a feminine figure symbolizing the state of Texas, holding the shields of Texas and the United States.

Begun in 1937, San Antonio's Alamo Cenotaph took two years to complete and is itself now a historical treasure.

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Tower Life Building San Antonio, TX

The unique 30-story Tower Life Building in San Antonio, Texas was completed in 1929 and originally called the Smith Young Tower. It is known for its historical background and its beautiful late Gothic Revival architecture, and was given the name that it has now in 1962, when it became the home of the Tower Life Insurance Company.

Built as the great depression was beginning, it is said the architect included Medieval gargoyles to protect the building from evil spirits and bad luck. It was one of the tallest buildings west of the Mississippi and the tallest building in San Antonio for almost 60 years until the completion of the Weston Centre in 1989. The Tower Life Building is believed to be the only octagonal office building in the United States. In 1991 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its green roof and unique lighting make the Tower Life Building one of the most easily recognized landmarks in the city.

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