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Benson (110.345W
31.961N) was a rail junction
in southeast Arizona, named for the president of the Southern Pacific
Railroad in 1880. The local economy was originally based on local silver
and copper mining. Artesian wells drilled in the 1890s turned the town into a ranching center, preventing it from becoming a ghost town. The town also became a center for explosives manufacture.
East Coast
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