South Ark Funnies

Cactus Jack's View

Timberwork placed long ago holds back the dump of the A.Y. and Minnie mines, the base of the Guggenheim fortune.

The recently completed California Gulch water-treatment plant in 1991. ASARCO was ordered to pay approximately half of the $1-million-per-year operating costs in perpetuity. ASARCO’s bankruptcy filing leaves questions about the company’s ability to fulfil this obligation

The original A.Y. and Minnie properties in California Gulch provided Meyer Guggenheim with $2,000 per day for a decade. The profits from the A.Y. and Minnie mines provided Guggenheim with the capital to build his smelting empire and to take over the American Smelting and Refining Company in 1901.

Yak Tunnel adit in 1983.

Construction of the California Gulch water-treatment plant in 1991. ASARCO, designated a leading ”potentially responsible party” under Superfund rulings, paid for half the plant’s $1.6 million construction cost.

Cartoon by Slim Wolf with his letter.

Christo's plan for Over the River.

Ralph Curtis at his desk.