Bayard council gets mining museum update - Silvercity Daily Press

Bayard council gets mining museum update - Silvercity Daily Press

By RALEIGH BURLEIGH Daily Press Correspondent The bulk of Wednesday’s Bayard City Council meeting involved a presentation by Stantec architect David Takeuchi on renovation plans for transforming the former Local 890 Union Hall into a mining museum. The building formerly housed the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers that struck against the Empire Zinc Mine in Hanover in 1952, inspiring the 1954 film “Salt of the Earth.” The...