Mining in Grant County, NM
Silver, copper, and gold mining was the economic engine of Grant County from the 1860s onward. Pinos Altos, the Santa Rita copper pit, and the Silver City silver boom drew miners, capital, and conflict.
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The company was formally organized under New York law on January 25, 1882.
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A company that leased the Turquoise mine near Paschal.
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Black and white image of Bullard Street in Silver City, New Mexico, from the Silver City Museum collection.
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Pinos Altos is a mining area in southwestern New Mexico Territory, located east of the site where Bullard and Hudson discovered silver in 1870.
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A newspaper that editorialized about a law prohibiting women from entering saloons.
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A miner working for the New Mexico Mining and Milling Company at Pyramid who was held up and released by Caldwell.
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Church dedicated Jan. 17, 1886, located left of the school building.
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A Mexican prospector who found a large gold nugget at Calamity Bar near Slapjack Hill.
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Discovered by John Lambert near Mogollon.
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Reliable assays are offered at prices including $3.50 for gold and silver, $2.75 for lead, 50 cents for gold-tin-copper, and $1.50 for sample.
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An attorney at law practicing in Silver City, New Mexico in 1893.
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Miner who discovered new placer ground in Santa Domingo Gulch and took out $36 in gold.
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Moneyed adventurer who obtained a lease on the Santa Rita copper mines and invited Kirker to join him.
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Rohling is a person who co-founded an unknown entity, worked for an unknown entity, and was sentenced multiple times, but no further details are available.
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Russell Howell and his family left for Silver City after visiting Socorro as guests of Mrs. Phoebe Howell.
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Property of Frank Ascarate stolen from a Santa Fe train at El Paso.
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Person aged 52 who died of grippe in Silver City.
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A newspaper from which an article is reprinted.
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The target of road agents who aimed to capture it during shipment.
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Store on Main St. visible in circa-1885 photograph.
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Newspaper to which Mrs. Warren gave an interview in 1932.
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Lodge where Mr. Black served as master.
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Masonic lodge where officers were installed on the 26th inst.
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Church located at the northwest corner of Broadway and Bayard streets; pastored by Rev. B. E. Pierce 1888–94.
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The physical office space broken into and taken possession of by George H. Utter and Thos. Foster.
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A creek located 5 miles above Mogollon, N. M., where the Herman Saw Mill was situated.
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Company that owned the fifty-foot square piece of ground leased by Savage and Thoman at Lake Valley.
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A cafe in Clayton, New Mexico.
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Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Kilbum.
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A restaurant business pictured on Bullard Street.
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Ceremonial spike driven by the subject at the celebration of the S. C. & D. railroad completion.
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The newspaper publishing the article on April 20, 1910.
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A man who discovered and worked the San Lazarus mine, seized it by force of arms after being ousted by directors in Milwaukee.
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Person who died of membraneous croup in Silver City.
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Leaser who, with partner Frank Thoman, extracted 54,000 ounces of silver at Lake Valley and owns a ranch at Las Cruces.
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Tellurium is being found in the Good Luck Mine and other claims in the vicinity.
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Tellurrium is being found in the Good Luck Mine and other claims near Lone Mountain.
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University where some alumni of the Institute were enrolled.
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He fell from the 500 foot level to the bottom, 209 feet below, and was killed.
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A newspaper that praised the High School Herald as a spicy little medium.
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A publication or book series that solicits historical photographs for its volumes.
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Acting foreman of the Mountain Key mine who was killed by falling 209 feet from the 500-foot level.
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Thomas Lewis is an official of the United Mine Workers of America from Columbus, Ohio.
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Location of a big copper camp being built by Phelps-Dodge Company near the Burro Mountains.
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Three brothers who discovered a rich horn silver vein while hunting cows and worked the mine.
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Book containing Jim Smith's chapter on Billy the Kid's legend.
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The article refers to Indian atrocities in the vicinity as things of the past.
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W. F. Aiken, also known as Aiken, is a person for whom no specific historical facts are recorded in the available claims.
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Person who died of Bright's disease in Silver City.
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Person aged 47 who died of dropsy and Bright's disease in Silver City.
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William Watson was a person about whom no specific historical claims are recorded in the available sources.
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One of several men who shipped silver bullion in the old stage coach days.
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Person who died of consumption in Silver City.
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The company is named in the masthead of the newspaper.
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Performed in Silver City and made a big hit.
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Member of a committee examining the Grant County jail.
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Received the Fort Bayard beef contract at $4.20 per hundred and came from his Arizona ranch.
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The Academy of Our Lady of Lourdes was an organization with two sources, but no specific claims about its occupation or arrival were recorded.
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Ada Humes and Kid Lewis moved from Silver City to La Cruces.
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Lost mine mentioned in McKenna's tales.
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