I returned to Santa Fe a month later and…
source date: 1891
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pecting pan. The gold was mostly coarse and very bright. The fine gold required amal- gamating. There being no quicksilver the re- maining pulp was taken to Taos, and there amalgamated. The proceeds of that sack of ore netted 937 ounces of gold, amounting to $15,000 in coin. I returned to Santa Fe a month later and learned that a grand mining discovery had been made at the identical spot where I had found gold in the horse’s print. S. K. ( 77 ) Three Days In Clifton A Tough Town of the Long Ago. Nothing Cheap But Life. Reminiscence of the Camp as Seen by an Enterprise Reporter in 1883.In the summer of ’83, soon after the estab- lishment of this great religious weekly, and when the paper was struggling with four or five other papers of this city for supremacy and “grub.” the writer visited Carlisle, Duncan and Clifton. That section was then noted as the home of the rustler, and it was considered almost impossible for a stranger to get in or out of Clifton without being “held up.” An Enterprise man had nothing to risk however, he proceeded to make the trip, and arrived in Carlisle to find the camp under arms. The rustlers had pre- viously sent word to Wm. Farrish that they would be over in a few days and clean up his camp because he had employed Chinamen to do the surface work of building roads, and run- ning an open cut on the mine.