San Antonio Smelters and Smokestack

Another silver and gold smeltering operation was down the road outside of San Antonio. These mining areas were abandoned after 1926. Inside the smelters the ceilings can still be found to be covered with several inches of soot from the decades of mining.

Each of these individual ovens were probably at least 6 feet tall. I climbed to the top of this string of smelters just to be able to say I did. Thankfully I found an animal trail to follow back down or I may have returned in the manner of the luge at the Olympics!