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.

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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.