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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Sum unearthed by Lucio Lazo at Pinos Altos, originally buried by Mr. Bell.
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Address of Crown Furniture and Auction Company.
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A 57-pound piece of horn silver sold to the Kansas City smelter for $514.98.
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Address of S. L. Lithgow's business.
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Cigarettes sold for 10 for 10c.
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The American Mining Congress is holding its 17th annual convention in Phoenix.
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A silver mine on Chloride Flat that produced over $1,000,000 in chloride silver from 1879 to 1883.
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The Breman Silver Mine, located on Chloride Flat, produced over $1,000,000 in silver chloride between 1879 and 1883.
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One of three full claims owned by the company, located about three miles south of Silver City.
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Cigarettes sold for 20 for 25c.
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Hill in Silver City photographed by Lucas.
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A company whose well in San Pedro was the site where Alberto Chacon's body was found.
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An industry and activity listed as a subject of a government publication.
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A successful mining company in Clifton that closed its smelters due to high freight rates and planned to build a new railroad.
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Items sold by a jeweler and manufacturer of Mexican filigree jewelry.
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Location where the Oats & Delson nugget was found.
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A drag line is shown at the Santa Rita Copper Mine.
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Company presumed to be composed of German capitalists that purchased the Eldorado Lode Mining Claim.
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Pioneer of southwestern New Mexico who helped organize a hospital in Silver City's mining camp and died at age 90.
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A character in a story about lynching, from the New York Weekly.
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Foreman of the W. S. ranch at Alma who forced Witt to surrender at gunpoint.
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Item belonging to Mrs. Pennington stolen by the burglar.
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A gift presented to H. D. Gilbert by his wife and children on his 55th anniversary.
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A pillar of gold in the mine that partially gave way and was later extracted.
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Item found on one of the little fingers of the mummified corpse.
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A decorative stone known to exist in large deposits northeast of Hudson's hot springs.
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A major zinc-lead producer in Grant County's Central Mining District near Vanadium, New Mexico.
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Mining company that developed 13 claims about 4 miles upstream from the Catwalk trail.
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A working saw mill located on the bottom of a heavily wooded canyon on Silver Creek.
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A prospector who cared for Mr. Emery after he broke his leg.
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Author who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant …
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A well-known miner of San Pedro District killed in a fall at the Allan Story turquoise mine.
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Mine near Pinos Altos, nine miles from Hurlburt's ranch, where he fled to raise the alarm.
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Mine that produced a gold and silver brick.
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Described as a famous health and summer resort within one day's ride of El Paso.
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A fake political issue devised by Seligman for Hanna's gubernatorial campaign.
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Newspaper source of a humorous anecdote about a cremation gone wrong.
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Street where H. Fieldness's Singer Sewing Machine office was located.
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One of three full claims owned by the company, adjacent to the Volcano Mine in the Silver Flat district.
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The proposed one ton gold brick for the world's fair is being built from gold shipments.
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Mine whose gold brick will be exhibited at the Columbian exposition; N. Bell is proprietor.
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A mine at Pinos Altos where George Butler was employed.
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Former night boss at the Mountain Key mine arrested for stealing ore.
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Discovered by Ancheta.
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A corporation issued Certificate of Incorporation No. 8904 by the State of New Mexico.
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Copper mine discovered in 1800 in southwest New Mexico.
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A reported treasure find in the castle of San Antonio.
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Street location of the Western Feed and Warehouse Company.
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Survey documenting Silver City's architectural history, building booms, fires, preservation.
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The Silver City Big flood is an event for which no details about its occurrence are known from available sources.
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Band that serenaded W. F. Aiken and his bride.
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Club making arrangements for a grand tournament of southwestern clubs.
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An unnamed inmate in the Silver City jail was identified as one of the robbers of Pomeroy's stage arrested near Morenci in 1883, who bragged about robbing many …
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A town 10 miles north of Tyrone where commuters work.
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The town the husband departed from in search of his fleeing wife.
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The location from which the mountain freighters departed, shown in a late 19th or early 20th century photograph.
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A two-foot narrow-gauge railway that came to Pinos Altos in 1905 and closed in 1913 due to declining silver prices.
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Water utility whose reservoir was drained by the Pacific Mill.
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Company whose office was broken into by George H. Utter and previously by Thos. Foster.
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Market price reported at 62¢ per ounce.
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