Elephant Butte draws large crowds over holiday weekend

ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. – Saturday morning, Eric Gorham and David Gomez trudged up the steep shale and slate hillside of Rattlesnake Island, each carrying 20 or 30 pounds of mortars in garbage bags. Gorham, a pyrotechnics operator with Lone Star Pyro, helped orchestrate this year’s fireworks display at Elephant Butte Lake. Noontime clouds brought the […]