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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Installed as Junior Deacon of Silver City Lodge No. 8.
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Installed as Tyler of Silver City Lodge No. 8.
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Jim Cummings is a person, but no specific historical facts about him are available from the provided claims.
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Leader of gang that fired on a Sonora train, former Silver City blacksmith.
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Formerly of Silver City, killed a man named Sheridan at Clifton in a dispute over a game.
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John P. White is president of the United Mine Workers of America and will represent organized miners at the convention.
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A man who arrived in Silver City having in custody Jonetas Chaves, charged with murder.
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Gentleman from Pinos Altos who attended the picnic at the Peerless mine.
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A prospector and occasional book peddler who disappeared mysteriously about a year ago, believed to be the murder victim.
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J. W. Fleming is a person for whom claims exist regarding elections, residence, property, and occupation, but all specific details are unknown.
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One of the owners of the alum mines of the upper Gila.
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One of several men who shipped silver bullion in the old stage coach days.
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A photographer or business owner in Silver City, N.M., whose name is printed on the mat margin of the photograph.
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Resident of Gold Hill, New Mexico who received a patent for a car coupling.
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Installed as a steward of Silver City Lodge No. 8.
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An old-time prospector, almost 60 years old, who broke his right leg near the headwaters of the Gila.
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Pioneer and school superintendent in Silver City who used a masculine signature.
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Woman staying at Robeson's house whose son narrowly escaped the Indians.
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Guest from Los Angeles at the Womans Club meeting.
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Delegate from Silver City whose valise was stolen in Washington.
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Husband of Elizabeth Warren who opened the first insurance office in Silver City and conducted a real estate business.
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Noonan was inspecting the Garfield and Ban Butler mines with James DeCourney and Frank Parker.
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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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A Mexican prospector who found a large gold nugget at Calamity Bar near Slapjack Hill.
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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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Person aged 52 who died of grippe in Silver City.
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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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He fell from the 500 foot level to the bottom, 209 feet below, and was killed.
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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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Three brothers who discovered a rich horn silver vein while hunting cows and worked the mine.
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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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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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Ada Humes and Kid Lewis moved from Silver City to La Cruces.
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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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A L Christy, a prominent lawyer from Las Cruces, was in the city.
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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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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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An old-time Silver City boy now mining in California who returned from a trip to the old country.
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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 1888–94.
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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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Superintendent of the Mountain Key mine who investigated ore theft.
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