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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Billy the Kid, also known as William Bonney, was a notorious outlaw in New Mexico during the late 19th century.
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A jeweler claimed to have cheaper goods.
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Group claiming a three-quarters interest in the Corralitos ranch who attacked a Mexican cattle buyer.
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A brakeman injured in the wreck, hospitalized in El Paso, who had acted as agent in Silver City.
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Wealthy prominent resident of Irceley who employed Wild Horse Jerry for years.
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Bruce I. Eaton is one of the wealthiest and most prominent residents of Irceley and formerly employed Wild Horse Jerry.
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The Yuma Indians claimed the captain of the ferry sent them to help cut poles.
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Executed for murder of Mrs. Julia Hoffman; attorney claimed he was Jack the Ripper.
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Carranza's official party denied an escort of troops to protect the train carrying American miners.
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Cash Keen is a person about whom no specific claims are recorded.
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A former neighbor of Childress who swore out the warrant for his arrest, claiming Childress eloped with his wife.
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Chapman was a person who owned property of an unspecified nature. No further historical significance can be determined from the available information.
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A gardener who killed a woman and committed suicide, and who previously supplied Geronimo.
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Old resident and prominent citizen of Tucson who was one of the owners of the ferry and narrowly escaped the massacre.
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Charles Campbell is a person with three sources backing claims, but no specific biographical facts are known.
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Director of the Silver City Mining and Milling Company from New York City.
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Signatory of the mining meeting recommendation.
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Witness listed by claimant John R. Goffar for his land claim.
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A man who was shot through the head by Indians while traveling with Gene Kirker from Tombstone to the mine and died.
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Citizen who escorted Thomas Harrington to Silver City by stage.
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Charles W. Henderson of the United States Geological Survey reported final figures on New Mexico's mineral production in 1913.
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A prominent lawyer from Cincinnati and father of John Slough's second wife.
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A noted accountant who tracked births in Silver City.
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The only witness examined by the prosecution in the McWilson trial.
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Man who fired shots at opponents over mining business and was jailed.
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Person claiming a lien on NANW stock via chattel mortgage from Harkey, accused of fraud by George F. Patrick.
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Chris Watson is a person whose only known sourced claim is that he arrived in an unspecified location.
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Signatory of the mining meeting recommendation.
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A prominent character on the southwestern frontier described as a born leader, gallant soldier, successful lawyer, brilliant writer, and public-spirited citizen…
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Colonel Harper was a person also known as engineer Harper and Harper, but no specific historical facts about him are known from the available claims.
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Court commissioner who examined Indian prisoners regarding murders of Grace and Diehl.
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A witness for the homestead claim of Antonio Jose Mares.
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C S Kellum arrived in the city from Gold Hill on Monday.
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C T Brown returned to Socorro Wednesday from a stay of nearly two weeks in the Kelly mining camp.
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Dave Gaul's occupation and activities are unknown, so no specific historical significance can be determined from available information.
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A young man who died, likely of fever, while employed with Mr. Upton by a New York mining company in South America.
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Signatory of the mining meeting recommendation.
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D K Cunningham was in from Gold Hill on Monday to see the bay horse win.
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Dona Ciano Baca of Antonchico, N.M., made a homestead entry and filed notice of intention to make final five-year proof on a land claim.
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A Mexican congressman and brother-in-law to the governor of Chihuahua, visiting on mining business.
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A prominent gentleman from Guerrero County, Chihuahua, Mexico, now a refugee after starting a small revolution over tax matters.
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Dougherty is an attorney at law in Socorro, New Mexico.
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A person associated with a group meeting at the Territorial Bank in Silver City.
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Doctor in Georgetown who offered to examine and dress the tramp's sore arm.
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A former physician of Silver City who committed suicide in Ramona, California.
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Store owner from whom the Silver City post office was moved.
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A prominent physician of Tucson who was shot and killed by Frank J. Heney.
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Dr. J. H. Terrill is a specialist who claims to cure various diseases of men, offering a written guarantee.
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A doctor who went to the Modoc mine after the explosion but found Adams already dead.
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Person who was in the mountains with F. H. Siebold looking at mines.
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E. A. Herpersger has been appointed manager of the new copper mining camp in Caballero canon.
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A man who was in the skip being hoisted at the Commercial mine during the accident.
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A wholesale liquor dealer in Silver City and medical school graduate who administered chloroform during surgery.
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Edmund P. Barnes is listed as an attorney at law with an office on the corner of Broadway and Main Street in Silver City.
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Ed Roberts is a person about whom no specific historical facts are known from the available claims.
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Person with whom Frank Nichol will engage in mining in California.
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A contractor in Silver City who took on M. R. Koehler as a business associate in 1907.
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Analytical chemist in New York City who analyzed Manitou Mineral Water.
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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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A man working on the Gila in Southern New Mexico who claims to have a medicine that cures any disease.
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