Glenwood and Graham, New Mexico

Glenwood, Catron County, is the location of the Whitewater Canyon National Forest Recreation Area, featuring the Catwalk. There is also the Glenwood Fish Hatchery. About 1889 rich silver and gold deposits were discovered in the mountains above Whitewater Canyon. The Confidence, Bluebird, Blackbird, and Redbird mines, among others, developed. Ore was hauled in wagons to a mill at a town named Graham (also called Whitewater) located at the mouth of the Canyon.

John T. Graham built that mill in 1893 to handle 75 tons of ore a day. Water to operate the electric generators and to meet the needs of Graham came from a pipeline reaching up into the Canyon. Building water lines meant drilling brace holes into the rock walls of the Canyon to hold timbers and iron bars to support the downhill water flow. These lines were in constant need of maintenance and workmen walking the lines to repair damage dubbed it the "Catwalk".