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. J. Loomis was a person, but no specific claims about their occupation or historical significance are available in the provided sources.
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Worked with Doheny in Kingston mines; later involved in Teapot Dome scandal.
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A man found dead in a well belonging to the Copper Company in San Pedro.
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A L Cole is a defendant in a lawsuit along with his wife Lou Allie Cole and unknown claimants under them.
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Father of Redford Job, lives on Whisky Creek east of Silver City.
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A silver mining camp also known by its earlier name Black Hawk, located near Saddle Rock canyon.
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Mining camp in California near B. B. Lewis's mine.
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Georgetown resident who sent a rock with a natural picture of Mineral Mountain to Judge Bennett.
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One of the Misses Ott who attended the picnic at the Peerless mine.
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Mine where George Forget was working.
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Mine or pit where Weaver worked for two years.
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Parent of two children aged 4 and 5 who died of la grippe in Silver City.
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Location of the Eldorado Lode Mining Claim.
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Antonchico, N.M., is the residence of Dona Ciano Baca and some of the witnesses in the land claim.
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A claimant who filed a homestead entry and notice of intention to make final proof.
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Mining company that suspended work due to flood damage.
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Attacks by Apache groups on settlers in the Silver City area, covered in Ailman's memoirs.
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An Apache raiding party killed John Bullard in February 1871 on the road between Silver City and Pinos Altos.
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August 1869 attack in which Apaches killed Hurlburt's wife and child at their cabin near Silver City.
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Parent of three children who died of tonsilitis in Silver City.
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A district in Sonora where the Oso Negro mine is located.
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Mining district in Sonora, Mexico, where the Oso Negro mine is located.
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Railroad charging exorbitant freight rates that prompted the Detroit Copper Company to consider building a competing line.
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A boarding house in Separ where miners and rustlers stayed.
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Catalog record for a panoramic gelatin silver photograph of sanatoriums and military facilities in New Mexico.
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Witness listed by claimant John R. Goffar for his land claim.
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A. S. Harrison is a witness for John R. Coffar's homestead claim.
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A shoemaker performed crude surgery on the miner, replacing his scalp.
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A committee was appointed to examine the records and accounts of the assessor's and treasurer's offices.
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Mining property showing remarkable prosperity.
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One of the mining properties showing remarkable prosperity.
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Worthless metal gathered from Pinos Altos mills that 'Arrastra' Johnson passed off as silver retort.
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Location where several gold nuggets were found near Ballarat.
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Major gold-mining district where numerous nuggets were found.
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Barllek is listed as an attorney at law with an office in Rooms 3 and 4 over Ronenbergs Store in the Sheridan Block, Silver City.
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Victim killed by blows to the head; body examined during autopsy.
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A stringed binder of photographs, including this image, held by the Silver City Museum.
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A mining camp twelve miles southeast.
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Mentioned as a mining camp twelve miles southeast of a reference point.
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The creek where gold was discovered in 1860, sparking the Pinos Altos gold rush.
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The article describes the fine black and variegated marble deposits near Bear Creek, ten miles from Silver City.
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A firm of attorneys practicing in Silver City, New Mexico.
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Store in Pinos Altos where the Mexican left a gold nugget.
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A man found dead near the railroad track, ruled a suicide, who had escaped from a Kansas insane asylum.
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Ben Johnson is a person, but no specific historical facts about this individual are known from the available claims.
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Hotel in Silver City where Eli Mader died.
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Dentist with a business on Bullard Street in Silver City.
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A ditch in Silver City, at the edge of which stands a windmill.
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Billy the Kid, also known as William Bonney, was a notorious outlaw in New Mexico during the late 19th century.
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Mining camp where H. D. Adam committed suicide.
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A mining camp ten miles north in the Burro mountains.
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The explosive material used by J. E. Wolford that exploded prematurely.
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Region whose western slope may be boosted by the Grand Central mine sale.
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Moody claims to have blooded stock that he wants to show.
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Mining property where Charley Anderson quit work.
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The board cost per month for miners at Shakespeare.
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The Board of County Commissioners of Grant County is required by law to proclaim the election and publish notice in newspapers.
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A jeweler claimed to have cheaper goods.
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Town near which the old Castilian Turquoise mine is located.
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A hill whose apex Charley Anderson claims to own.
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