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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Signatory of the mining meeting recommendation.
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Author of an illustrated travel account through the Southwest during the Civil War era.
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Formerly a blacksmith of Silver City who was sentenced to be shot for robbing a train in Sonora but is still alive and being held as a witness.
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Signatory of the mining meeting recommendation.
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J. T. Taylor is a witness for John R. Coffar's homestead claim.
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Juan Lucero y Romo of Antonchico, N.M., is named as a witness in Dona Ciano Baca's land claim.
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Juan Lucero y Villanueva of Villa Nueva, N.M., is named as a witness in Dona Ciano Baca's land claim.
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A witness for the homestead claim of Antonio Jose Mares.
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Judge Givens was a person whose occupation and legal actions are not recorded in available sources. No further historical significance can be determined from th…
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Of Silver City area; brother of Col. R. F. McComas; another brother was killed by Indians near Malone.
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A house with three windows in Silver City said to be owned by Judge Potter.
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Justice who went to the scene of the body discovery at the Aztec mine.
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The justice who examined Burns and Johns at Bowie before committing them to Tombstone jail.
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J W is mentioned in a garbled article fragment about Silver City.
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Listed as City Treasurer.
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A prominent cattle man from San Miguel County who is under arrest with his cowboys.
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Location near which Miss Ina Witt has a claim.
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American corporation that operated the Santa Rita copper mine during its corporate phase.
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A term used to describe the therapeutic water at Faywood Hot Springs, claimed to cure kidney ailments.
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Died shortly before the sale of the Champion mine.
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A mining district in the Black Range of Sierra County, adjacent to Grant County.
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The article mentions the Kingston district as a location of significant mining production.
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Klarllii is mentioned in a garbled article fragment about Silver City.
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Mine from which P. Gould was hauling ore.
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A mine from which P. Gould was hauling ore when he had an accident.
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A mine where Alec Woodburn worked as shift boss.
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A mining camp twelve miles southeast.
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Wife of Felix Knox, traveling with him from Silver City to Clifton in spring 1882.
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Gold nugget found July 27, 1860 at Ballarat, weighing 69 pounds, sold for $16,680.
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K Wlilt is mentioned in a garbled article fragment about Silver City.
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The building that formerly was the first Silver City courthouse on Hudson Street.
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Gold nugget found Sept. 8, 1854 in Canadian Gully, weighing 98 pounds 10 ounces 12 pennyweights, sold for $23,557.
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This is the specific parcel of land for which Dona Ciano Baca filed a homestead claim.
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The U.S. Land Office in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where Mining Application No. 160 was filed.
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Newspaper that gave an account claiming Hugh Stephenson and others made the Santa Fe trail in 1830.
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L A Skelly and family left Monday for a month's trip to California.
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L Ciiur is mentioned as an attorney in a garbled article fragment about Silver City.
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The article describes a cheap lodging house in Leadville where poor prospectors and ruined capitalists sleep.
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Wife of Lee Rubens, co-purchaser and co-seller of the Eldorado Lode Mining Claim.
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Gold nugget found Jan. 31, 1853 at Ballarat, weighing 134 pounds 11 ounces, sold to bank for $32,380.
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Leonardo Lucero of Villa Nueva, N.M., is named as a witness in Dona Ciano Baca's land claim.
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Reporter who wrote a general resume of conditions in the Lordsburg mining district.
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Dr. L. H. Pate, a examining physician on the Selective draft board, returned from Deming.
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The Library of Congress (LoC) is an organization; available claims lack substantive information.
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Bride of W. F. Aiken, nee Cook.
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Mining management that attempted to wreck Frank Vingoe's company.
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An attorney and counselor at law practicing in Silver City, New Mexico, with an office in the Enterprise Building.
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Nothing is known about the person named Lockhart from the provided claims.
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Secretary and treasurer of the Guam Trading company, who came to New Mexico in 1884 and recalled Coolage's prominence.
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Mining district containing the Copper Point mine.
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Mining men agreed that deep mining is key to success in Lordsburg.
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Dairy now located at Shakespeare Camp, with prompt deliveries to Lordsburg and 85 Mine.
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Lorvim is mentioned as foreman of Hook and Ladder Co in a garbled article fragment about Silver City.
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A remedy patented by Dr. J. H. Terrill for lost manhood and seminal emissions, which he claims never fails to cure.
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Louts Richard is a mining engineer who compiled a resume of mining operations.
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One of a party of young men claimed to have made the Santa Fe trail in 1830.
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Luera is a proprietor of the Carthage Coal Mining Co.
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L W Cotton is a defendant in a lawsuit along with unknown claimants under him.
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A coal-mining town in New Mexico known for its elaborate Christmas light displays, attracting thousands of visitors annually.
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Magdalena is a town in New Mexico where Dr. Swisher formerly served as an examining surgeon and where dentist O. R. L. Smith practices monthly.
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