Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1890-01-24
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

54,000 Ounces Silver Extracted by Two Leasers at Lake Valley In One Month They say things are quiet at Lake Valley, but there is quite a hum of interest up there now, on the lease of T. B. Savage and Frank Thoman on a fifty foot square piece of ground of the Silver Mining Co. They worked this ground for six months getting small pay most of the time, but a day or two before their time was out they came into fine ore. The general manager promptly gave them one month’s ex- tension of time, and with only two men at work on ore, they have taken out the unusual amount of 54,000 ounces of silver. Savage has in the past four years made two other strikes rivaling this one in value, and has a fine ranch at Las Cruces. He will now settle down in luxury; while his partner, Thoman, goes to see the old folks in Switzerland. He has worked hard and stuck to it like a man, and everybody is glad of his good luck. The past week has been a busy one at Deming. Long trains of ore coming up from Mexico, reloading back with merchandise, and numerous other trains loading for the same points, have taxed the large house of Lindauer, Wormser & Co. to its fullest capacity, and made pleasant the faces of all our merchants.