MODOC

NAME: Modoc
COUNTY: Dona Ana
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 8
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:
Spring, winter, fall
COMMENTS: Typical Mining town
REMAINS:Nothing Left
The Modoc Mine produced mostly lead from the late 1870s to 1905. The town itself consisted of only a few frame buildings and a mill located about seven hundred feet below the mine at the foot of the granite bluffs of the Organ Mountains. During the mine's period of operations, it produced about $200,000, mostly in lead. When the mine stopped producing, the town died. Nothing is left today.Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

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