Bisbee---Open pit mine, funky downtown, and mine tour

We drove form Arivaca to Bisbee via a dirt road right next to the border.  Lots of open space but few border patrol vehicle although at one point we were within 100 feet of the border.  Bisbee is a tourist trap with a lot of antique shops and artist shops.  The Lavender pit mine closed in 1974 is a big hole in the ground right next to the road.   We went on a mine tour of a hard rock copper mine which closed in 1943.  We learned how the miner worked and how the blasting was done.  

               Monument to Fray Marcos de Ninza first white man in Arizona                       Closed customs house at Lochiel.  100 feet fro the border

           Trees at Lochiel                                                                                                    Rugged country by border

                   Pesky Blue Jay wanted our lunch                                                        Start of the mine tour at Bisbee

             Downtown Bisbee                                                                                        Strange mining implements

                   Listening to an old miner talk about the olden days                                The FACE where the blasting occurs

           On the train into the mine                                                                                The Lavender pit by Bisbee