The Mimbres river derives its name from…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

um- 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. The Mimbres river derives its name from the Spanish, mimbres, meaning osiers or willows. In the old stage coach days, those within the memory of persons who have lived in Grant county for twenty years, the almost deserted Mowry City was a favorite resort for road agents, whose object was to capture the silver bullion which was shipped by Porter, Bremen, Lezinsky, Col. Bennett, Willison, and others. Upon one occasion Judge Mullen, now of this city, was a passenger on a buck-board of the N. M. and T. company, and as the team neared the crossing, he recognized a number of Silver City acquaintances, and among others an ( 61 ) individual known as Captain Stout. The captain did not disturb the buck-board or its passengers, but might have done so, as he was afterwards identified in Arizona as a famous road agent, and was sent to the Yuma penitentiary.