The Gauntlet Thrown Down!
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

getting only about sixty yards distant when the rest of the powder exploded, blowing the cabin to atoms. $1,299,276.25! Grant County’s Mineral Production for 1890. The Gauntlet Thrown Down! Grant County in the Lead of the United States Proportionately to the Capital Invested! Ensconced in the southwest corner of the territory of New Mexico lies the county of Grant. Blessed with the most equable tempera- ture and healthful climate on the globe, the most fertile of valleys, producing in abundance all of the semi-tropical fruits, besides the hardier varieties of the farther north, and fur- nishing sustenance for a larger number of cattle than any of the counties of Colorado by fifty per cent. Yet, in addition to these advantages, it comes to the front as the largest gold and silver producing county in the United States, proportionate to the amount of capital employed in the mines and reduction works in the county. Thomas Lyons desires the Enterprise to inform the public that he has recently imported two dozen of the “Bob-White” variety of quail, and has turned them loose on the Gila. Hunters will please refrain from killing them until they have had an opportunity to multiply.