22 Jul 1892
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1892
Page
1
W Parker, attorney at law, and A B Elliott, attorney at law, announce practice in all courts of the Territory. Prompt attention to business entrusted for Chanji Hillsborough and surrounding area.
The Albuquerque Democrat outlines Hillsboro as a rising gold camp along the Rio Grande and Black Range. It details veins, ore grades, placer yields, and upcoming rail and mill developments, noting 700 to 800 residents, four mills, a building boom, and Hillsboro as a future smelting center.
A collage of miner legends from Helena Montana to Fergus and Beaver Head recounts fortunes and fates. Jim Whitlatch’s California eastward plays, Drum Summon’s $1 500 000 sale, a rich ore vein yielding high per ton, a candid California prospector turned ground keeper, and McAdow’s Spotted Horse fortune reveal risky luck in mining.
The Alice mine on Fall River near Georgetown Colorado appears promising. Prospecting found kaolin with pyrites and gold in solid rock. A stamp mill operated seasonally, turning rock into revenue, while the mine mined rock like a quarry for about three hundred feet, with occasional ore bands carrying 1800 ounces of silver and 50 ounces of gold per ton.
A satirical prospectors prayer laments hard luck and wishes for wealth as Arizona’s Harqua Hala mill sends a 3574 pound gold ore to the mint after 45 days. Reports from Gem, Idaho describe a deadly clash between union and non union miners, with several killed and Frisco mill destroyed by powder. Non union men surrendered as authorities respond to the strike violence.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports several new corporations filing documents with the territorial secretary. Entries include Flower Queen Minit Company with incorporators A. E. McDaniel et al and capital stock $150,000, and the Wight Orphan Home with incorporators A. D. Higgins and others to operate Vast Las Vegas for orphan care. Also listed is Mexican Northern Pacific Railway Company Limited with multiple international incorporators and paid subscriptions totaling thousands, organized to build rail between Deming and the international boundary. Additional entities include New Mexico Homestead Company, Socorro Pecos Valley Flat Lands Company, Jicarillarou Company for Lip mining near White Oaks, Schreiver Mining Company with $400,000 capital, Kina Mining Company with $500,000 capital operating mines near Chloride, Colonial Mining Company with Boston and Denver backers, and others.
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