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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A trustee of honor who was to receive 20,000,000 cruzados in gold upon his voyage to Brazil.
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Don Jose Tafolla arrived in Silver City from Canada during the past week.
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Investigated the Gonzalez killing case and volunteered to go to Silver City to obtain a warrant from Justice Isaac Givens.
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First postmaster of record in Silver City, whose drug store housed the post office.
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Dr Swisher is a graduate of the University of New York City and former U.S. Examining Surgeon in Socorro, New Mexico.
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Dr. Swisshelm is noted as a graduate of the University of New York City in 1875 and former U.S. Examining Surgeon in Socorro, New Mexico.
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A physician and surgeon in Silver City, New Mexico, with an office over Roberts Store and at his residence, available day and night.
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E B P Hart expects to leave for Silver City this evening.
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One of the gold mining districts where important mineral discoveries have recently been made.
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Group that visited multiple mining towns and left for Deming.
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Erb Bernell arrived in Silver City from the county during the past week.
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Father John I. Hastings served as General Manager of the Breman Silver Mine on Chloride Flat from 1879 to 1883.
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A gambler who was killed by Apaches in the spring of 1882 while traveling from Silver City to Clifton.
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A completed mill built by the company for ore reduction, with capacity for expansion.
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Fire Boss Keck entered the mine with Wm McCune and W P Allison carrying an open lamp, and was part of the rescue attempt following the explosion.
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Capital flow that shaped mining districts like Silver City and Bisbee.
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Fort Cummings, also known as Cummings, is a place with two sources but no documented historical claims.
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Frank Ascara was robbed of a sack of silver dollars on a Santa Fe train at El Paso.
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Prisoner charged with shooting at different persons in Silver City.
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A resident of this city through whom Denver capitalists made inquiry about the Santa Rita copper mines.
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Steve Upton's former partner who died of yellow fever at Colon, Central America.
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Superior of the Order of Jesuits who received 20,000,000 cruzados in gold and allegedly buried the treasure in the vaults of his monastery.
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An attorney at law with an office on Bullard Street in Silver City, New Mexico in 1893.
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Gene Kirker was traveling from Tombstone to a mine when attacked by Indians, and his leg was later amputated.
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Mining engineer who examined and reported on the company's properties near Silver City.
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Geo McKinney has taken a lease on the Lookout mine owned by Col Parker and J M Webster on Trujillo creek.
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George D. Jones is a person, but no specific historical actions or significance are documented in the available sources.
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Owner of the Hearst Mining Company, which acquired the principal mining claims at Pinos Altos in 1882.
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George Linton arrived in Silver City from Hermosa during the past week.
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Wedding guest who gave a silver syrup pitcher.
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Location of the Naiad mine and where Frank Lenoir had resided for two years.
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Presumed owners of the Eldorado Mining Company, described as now in this country.
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The Gibson camp is one of the camps around Golden displaying great activity.
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A prominent Chinese merchant from Tucson who married an American girl in Silver City.
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A person confined in Silver City jail whose horse Dick Huber used for a month or more.
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The Greene-Cananea company is rapidly completing construction work at the Jacran Mine and operating seven furnaces at the smelter.
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Preparations are underway to reopen old sulfur mines near Guadalupe, New Mexico.
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Co-owner of a gold mining claim at Hill End, New South Wales.
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Person in Silver City, out of business, with an uncollected license from May 1, 1889 to November 30, 1890.
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Mining operators from Nevada are negotiating to purchase placer grounds in the Hassayampa District, Arizona.
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Henry Meyer owns a modern refrigerating plant on Gold Avenue in Deming.
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A physician and surgeon with an office in the second story of the Shoemaker Block in Silver City, New Mexico in 1893.
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An attorney at law with an office over Aaron Schutz's Store on Ballard Street in Silver City, New Mexico in 1893.
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A prospector who co-led the party that discovered gold at Bear Creek in 1860.
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H O Bursum is a State Senator from Socorro County, New Mexico, with interests in the New Mexico Zinc and Copper Company, alongside J A McDonald and Judge Mechem…
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A homicide was committed about 16 or 17 miles from Silver City.
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The author or narrator who recounts the history of the Mogollon mining camp.
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Horace Seber arrived in Silver City from Hermosa during the past week.
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General Manager of the El Paso Mine Mill and Smelter Supply House.
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H. Rosecrans arrived in Silver City during the past week.
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A bookbinder and rubber stamp maker located at 814 W Gold Ave, phone 924.
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An attorney at law with an office over Aaron Schutz's Store on Bullard Street in Silver City, New Mexico.
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Location of the first Silver City courthouse.
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A prosperous miner from Cooks Peak visiting town.
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The narrator, an American, was captured by Mexican officers while returning with four pounds of meat, and his mine was confiscated.
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Group believed to have possibly slain Peter Fee.
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An Italian nobleman is accused of forgery in a mining scheme.
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Attorney at law in Wilcox, Arizona, practicing in public lands and mining.
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Attorney at Law practicing in all courts of the Territory with a specialty in criminal law, located on corner of Broadway and Bullard streets in Silver City, Ne…
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Jack Herbert arrived in Silver City from Magdalena during the past week.
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