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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1894
Page
4
The article paints a nationwide slump with idle workers, labor strikes, and widespread discontent. It notes 233 U.S. business failures last week, 115,000 idle industrial workers, falling prices, and a tariff bill debated in Congress, with no clear end in sight. Wheat prices also hit a low for the year.
Government in Victoria dispatched about 3 000 unemployed workers with families to old diggings. Helpers provided tolls transport and provisions while experienced miners showed methods. Some earned 20 to 80 shillings weekly, most families fared well with land settlements and cooperative village plots.
Santa Fe New Mexican publishes Walter Hoo Hadley report on New Mexico annual production of precious and useful metals for 1898. The table lists counties Don[a] Ana Grant Lincoln Santa Fe Sierra Socorro and others with gold silver lead and copper totals, with prices: gold $20/oz, silver $1.29, lead $4, copper 11 cents. Overall gold and silver total about 1.4627 million, gold roughly 64 percent of that.
The I AP 24 M Lodge of Kingsion invites visiting brothers to attend Thursday meeting before the fall moon. Campbell W M G W Hout Secretary.
EK OF Pm BLACK KAXGE LODGE NO 8 at Kingston held a routine gathering. Knights Gulbent C 6 and Ramo Anne attended as part of the local fraternal order proceedings.
If King Solomon were alive he would say go to the traveling man and learn his ways. Mr W Battell of Cincinnati, representing Queen City Printing Sook Co, suffered two to three days with shoulder lameness from rheumatism and was completely cured after two applications of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The remedy is gaining wide reputation for rheumatism lame back sprains swelling and jamm enna. OC Miller druggist sells bottles.
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