SELLING JINXES MOGOLLON MINERS
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

SELLING JINXES MOGOLLON MINERS Eli Mader, a well known miner of Cooney, died at the Benton House in Silver City Wednes- day morning, of typhoid malaria complicated by lung disease. Eli, as he was familiarly known, was one of the pioneers of the Mogollon mines and with Capt. Burris discovered the Laclede mine which as a stock deal on the St. Louis market went to a giddy height and ex- ploded, leaving stockholders and miners an un- pleasant reminder of the St. Louis stock sharps in the way of worthless certificates and unpaid wages. Mader and Burris did not realize during the boom, expecting the company to proceed with legitimate mining. After years of toil and disappointments he was in a fair way to ac- quiring a fortune having recently, in company with Mr. Bulhman, bonded a mine on the Queen lode to eastern capitalists for a large sum, re- ceiving a forfeit of $3,000 down. A strange fatality seemed to follow many of the old time miners of the Mogollons. Jim Cooney was killed by Indians when about to make a sale for a quarter of a million; Kilgore died shortly