Last week a Mexican brought in a nugget…
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ed to see the gaunt
and ghastly form of the old man sitting bolt up-
right and gazing out upon them with a cold, icy
stare. The frozen lips moved and in frigid tones
exclaimed : “Gentlemen, I wish you would please
shut that door; I always did hate a draught.”
— Hohave Miner.
Last week a Mexican brought in a nugget
which he found while gulching near town and
left it at Bell & Stephens’ store. Thursday morn-
ing it was pounded up and found to contain $9
in gold. The nugget was about one inch square,
of white quartz. — Pinos Altos.
(Correspondence Pinos Altos)
History Of A Scrap
Indians and Troops at Howard’s Wells
in 1872
Central, N. M., July 8
To the editors of The Pinos Altos.
As late as 1872 I was a participant in a
fight with a party of Mr. Lo’s gang at lonely
and desolate place about 30 miles east of the
Rio Grande at a place called Howard’s Wells.
Several troops of cavalry and the headquarters
( 66 )
of our regiment were passing there changing
stations, going from Fort Stockton to Fort Clark
in Texas.