tiful on the hillside…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

ine was sold to the company it has paid to date $4,300,000 in dividends, paying a divi- dend this month of $100,000. But to come back home and to our subject. The three Dimmick brothers kept a dairy ranch on Whiskey creek and sold the milk in Silver City or Pinos Altos. One morning last September two of the brothers started out after the cows. tiful on the hillside. Closer examination led them to think it was a more valuable ore. Neither of them having a pocket knife and about to throw the piece of rock away one of them bethought himself of biting it, when to their great astonishment and joy there remained dis- tinct and deep the impress of his full set of teeth as if he had bitten into a cake of beeswax. There was now no longer a doubt in their minds as to their find; they had been long enough in the mines to know they had a chunk of pure horn silver. One of them was now enough to hunt the cows while the other hastened home to communicate the glad news to their brother. Procuring picks and shovels they went back and after three days of exciting labor found the vein from which the piece had broken. The first blow of the pick struck on the vein brought up a piece of malleable horn and native silver worth over twenty dollars. They have since sunk a shaft 65 feet deep, from which they have taken $15,000 without stoping on either side.

from which the piece had broken. The first blow of the pick struck on the vein brought up a piece of malleable horn and native silver worth over twenty dollars. They have since sunk a shaft 65 feet deep, from which they have taken $15,000 without stoping on either side. This we venture to say is as good a show- ing as the celebrated Horn Silver mine made to start with. One piece weighing 57 pounds sold to the Kansas City smelter for $514.98, another weighing 35 pounds which they have is a better specimen still than the larger one. The boys had worked hard many years and after being paid for their ores they suspended operations, leaving one of them on guard on the mine, the other two went east on a visit to their parents whence they are expected to return in a week when they will resume operations on the mine. The same character of ore shov/s for a distance of 300 feet on one side of the shaft and 200 feet on the other side. It is their intention to sink shafts 200 feet apart and connect for air when stoping will be commenced and thousands of dollars may be looked for as a monthly product of the mine. There are no mines in New Mexico, if the croakers tell the truth, but dis- coveries of this kind v/hich this is not a solitary one proves them liars. From ihe September 4, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise AZTEC MINE