Chloride_Flats
author: Hasting,L.B.
source date: 1878
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Chloride_Flats Notes: Back of the photograph reads: "Chloride Flat, 4 miles east of Silver City, N.M. Father John I. Hastings was General Manager of the Breman Silver Mine on this flat. Took out over $1,000,000.00 in Chloride Silver in four years, 1879-1883. This is the flat and mine where Billy the Kid and his mother lived. When the blacksmith insulted his mother, Billy asked him to apologize. He didn't and Billy killed him. That was the first of Billy's Killings." Subject: Chloride Flat (N.M.)--1878; New Mexico Mining; Bonney, William H.--1878 Subject file: ZIM CSWR Pict Colls PICT 000-098 Publisher: Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico Collection: UNM CSWR Items from Manuscripts, Pictorial and Music Collections