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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Expedition from California that found gold and graves on the Navajo reservation.
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Elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Mexico, residing in Silver City; later mentioned traveling to Kingston to install Masonic lodge officers.
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Captain who died on the 18th inst. of an abscess of the brain in the 58th year of his age.
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Alaska ranked third in U.S. gold production in 1911.
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A L Christy, a prominent lawyer from Las Cruces, was in the city.
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Mine from which E. L. Doheny is shipping 18 tons per day of lead ore carrying 15โ25 ounces silver per ton.
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The American Smelting Company is increasing the capacity of its Hayden smelter plant.
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Andrew Head has taken a lease on the Lookout mine owned by Col Parker and J M Webster on Trujillo creek.
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Mrs Ann Meador is the defendant in a case brought by the state of Texas, and she is the wife of a man employed at the Towne smelter.
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Italian miner severely injured in an explosion at the Key mine.
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A. P. Green, superintendent of the Old Abe mine in White Oaks, has received a new electric light for use in the mine.
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The Argo camp is one of the camps around Golden displaying great activity.
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A cunning old man who tricked Judge Bennett by selling him worthless babbit metal disguised as silver retort.
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A cunning old man who gathered babbit metal from Pinos Altos mills and passed it off as silver retort to Judge Bennett.
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The company operating the Aztec Mine that ordered the shaft house removal.
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One of the gold mining districts where important mineral discoveries have recently been made.
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An old-time Silver City boy now mining in California who returned from a trip to the old country.
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Beads exchanged by Indians for gold dust.
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Courtesy credit for a photo of the second Silver City courthouse; also identified as Rev. B. E. Pierce, pastor of the Silver City Methodist Church from 1888โ94.
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Italian miner injured in the Key mine explosion who also suffered from erysipelas.
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A prospector who co-led the party that discovered gold at Bear Creek in 1860.
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Jet black marble found at Bear Creek quarries near Silver City.
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Owners of the Santa Rita copper mines, with Joel P. Whitney as principal.
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Superintendent of the Mountain Key mine who investigated ore theft.
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A man who arrived from East camp with a gold and silver brick.
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Burt D. Mason is a U.S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor and C.E. in Chloride.
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Of the Grand Central mining company; went over the Range Wednesday.
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Carl Christofferson came in from the mica mine of the Topeka Mica Mining company near Ribera.
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Grandson living in Silver City who provided the photo.
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A 47-year-old man killed by a premature mine blast.
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An old-timer killed by a premature blast explosion at the Western mine in Pinos Altos.
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A newspaper published at Caracas, Venezuela, which reported on the Rio de Janeiro gold discovery.
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C. Brown of Socorro, a mining engineer, is examining a zinc ore vein in the Hachita mountains.
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Rich ore chunks found near Central City.
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Person in Silver City, out of business, with an uncollected license from Aug. 1, 1889 to October 31, 1890.
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Explorer who located the Navajo mines and died at Ship Rock monument.
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One of the four main Chiricahua Apache bands; its camp was attacked by 30 miners in 1860.
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Chloride Flat, located four miles east of Silver City, New Mexico, was the site of the Breman Silver Mine and where Billy the Kid and his mother lived in 1878.
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A company composed of miners and prospectors for offensive and defensive operations against Indians.
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A coffee sack filled with gold nuggets from the mine.
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Had a home on 6th St. behind the Academy of Our Lady of Lourdes in Silver City.
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Col. J. R. Adair arrived in Silver City from Pinos Altos during the past week.
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Colorado is ranked seventh among copper-producing states in the U.S.
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The Colorado Fuel and Iron company owned the Fierro mines where the explosion occurred.
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Col Parker co-owns the Lookout mine on Trujillo creek with J M Webster.
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The companions worked together with the narrator to extract gold from a mine.
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The company is developing a mining property and offering shares.
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A Silver City demimonde woman who attacked Charles Allingham with a boulder.
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Furniture and auction company selling new and second-hand gasoline stoves, located at 114 W Gold, phone 606.
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C. S. Kellih and wife made a trip to Silver City this week.
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C. S. Kellium and wife made a trip to Silver City this week.
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C. T. Brown is an agent for the Carthage Coal Mining Company in Socorro.
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Grandson living in Silver City.
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Listed as a guest from Gold Hill.
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Promoter of the Mountain Key company who recognized stolen gold at the bank.
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A livery stable located on Silver Avenue in Deming, offering horses and rigs for ladies and gentlemen.
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Dentield traveled with L. H. Miller to Silver City last Friday.
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Capitalists from Denver inquiring about the condition of the Santa Rita copper mines.
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Man from the Copper Dick mining claim who reported finding Hall Williams' body.
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Three brothers (the Dimmick brothers) who kept a dairy ranch on Whiskey creek and sold milk in Silver City or Pinos Altos.
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