Last week a Mexican brought in a nugget…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

ed to see the gaunt and ghastly form of the old man sitting bolt up- right and gazing out upon them with a cold, icy stare. The frozen lips moved and in frigid tones exclaimed : “Gentlemen, I wish you would please shut that door; I always did hate a draught.” — Hohave Miner. Last week a Mexican brought in a nugget which he found while gulching near town and left it at Bell & Stephens’ store. Thursday morn- ing it was pounded up and found to contain $9 in gold. The nugget was about one inch square, of white quartz. — Pinos Altos. (Correspondence Pinos Altos) History Of A Scrap Indians and Troops at Howard’s Wells in 1872 Central, N. M., July 8 To the editors of The Pinos Altos. As late as 1872 I was a participant in a fight with a party of Mr. Lo’s gang at lonely and desolate place about 30 miles east of the Rio Grande at a place called Howard’s Wells. Several troops of cavalry and the headquarters ( 66 ) of our regiment were passing there changing stations, going from Fort Stockton to Fort Clark in Texas.