It was in the summer of 1867 I started for…
🔗 View originalhttps://archive.org/details/silvercity1891
Primary copy hosted at archive.org — opens in a new tab.
Entities extracted from this source (1)
Chunks (1)
chunk 948 · paragraph 1238
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
A Find of Twenty Years Ago. — Two
Inches of Pure Gold.
It was in the summer of 1867 I started for
the famous San Juan country via Tierra Amaria
and Abivul, Rio Arriba county, N. M.
( 76 )One night I made camp near the little town
of Chama, and to my surprise, next morning
discovered that I was minus my horse. The
saddle and saddle blankets I had used, one
for a pillow, the other for a bed. I immediately
looked the ground over and come to the con-
clusion that my horse had been stolen. I tracked
the horse quite a distance and returned to camp
that night after a fruitless chase. Next day I
concealed my saddle and blanket and took the
trail, leading in a northerly direction, centering
the great valley of San Fernando de Taos. I
arrived at Taos on the third day, and was told
by the people there that a horse answering my
description was seen the day before entering a
large canyon north of the place. It being late
and a drizzling rain falling, I was advised to
remain over to next morning, which I did. I
started out next morning and soon was on the
trail.