A Hit For Hogan
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

all his cow- punchers and told them if they intended to marry this year that it was time they were at it, as he was tired of their running around every Sunday when they should be branding maver- icks. Dap. From ihe April 13, 1888, Issue of The Enterprise A Hit For Hogan John Hogan, a Cooney Prospector, left here a few days ago for Riverside, California. A paper comes to hand from that city describ- ing the miner and stating that he is the owner of a $20,000 block there which he purchased for $300 in 1876 when working on a ditch there. He has paid taxes and allowed the property to increase in value. In an interview with the lucky investor the following is reported. “I have just returned from the Mogollon mountains in New Mexico. I have been prospect- ing there for quartz mines for some time. I found several mines varying in richness, and made several small sales, but the Indians were bad, Geronimo being very troublesome two years ago. Since leaving Riverside in ’78, I have thoroughly propected through Arizona and New Mexico.” “You speak about Geronimo, was he bad.”