They say things are quiet at Lake Valley,…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

They say things are quiet at Lake Valley, but there is quite a hum of interest up there now, on the lease of T. B. Savage and Frank Thoman on a fifty foot square piece of ground of the Silver Mining Co. They worked this ground for six months getting small pay most of the time, but a day or two before their time was out they came into fine ore. The general manager promptly gave them one month’s ex- tension of time, and with only two men at work on ore, they have taken out the unusual amount of 54,000 ounces of silver. Savage has in the past four years made two other strikes rivaling this one in value, and has a fine ranch at Las Cruces. He will now settle down in luxury; while his partner, Thoman, goes to see the old folks in Switzerland. He has worked hard and stuck to it like a man, and everybody is glad of his good luck.