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Monday, January 23, 2012 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Copper Ingots, Deming NM, January 22, 2012
Copper Ingots, Deming NM, January 22, 2012

So that's what that is

I often see flatbeds go by the RV park loaded with three widely spaced bundles of what look like iron weights. They baffled me until yesterday at Walmart when three rigs rolled in loaded with nice shiny ones, unlike the dull, iron like, loads I've been seeing. Bingo! - copper ingots.

But why would some be on the road past the RV Park?...

Night camp

Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Sell Them Down the River

Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...

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