Arriving at Chihuahua, Kirker went to…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

Arriving at Chihuahua, Kirker went to Guadalupe Calvo, a mining hacienda in the southern part of the state, belonging to an Eng- lish company, where he was employed as a boss for two years. Meantime, McKnight obtained a lease on the Santa Rita copper mines and writing to Kirker, requested him to come and go in with him. With much regret he left his Eng- lish friends to join the first good friend *he had after his arrival in America. At that time, this was the most fearful and dangerous enterprise that any man could think of engaging in; the