The company published pamphlets, maps…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

e would no doubt be considerably astonished. The company published pamphlets, maps and prospectuses, and among their views was Mowry City represented as a fairly populous town on the banks of the Mimbres, while in mid- stream steamboats and other crafts were plying to and fro. When the war broke out Mowry, despite the fact that he was a Yankee, in the fullest sense of the term, was very loud in his disaffec- tion to the government which had educated him. For his disloyalty he was imprisoned in California by order of General Carleton, who was in command of the New Mexico depart- ment. He was a man of unusual ability and had he directed his energies in the proper channel, he might have become a man of mark. He after- wards appeared on the San Pedro river in Ari- zona, where he built a smelter and obtained his ores from the vicinity of what is now Tombstone. Mowry died in London in 1868, unwept and unmourned. Years afterwards R. V. Newsham, who, after leaving the service in the famous Cali- fornia column, became post-trader at Fort Cum- mings, had a store at the crossing, but having no customers, he moved up to Silver City with his goods, the remnant of a large stock. The place was for a long time unoccupied on account of its supposed insalubrity, and was finally taken up by old man Porter and others.