23 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1892
Page
1
W Parker, attorney at law and solicitor in Hillsborough New Mexico, operates in the legal office serving clients in the region.
In a Comstock era tale Dan De Quille recalls a soft spoken superintendent who caught loafing miners in an old drift. He feigns rock inspection then teases the men about hard rock while secretly easing the crew toward discipline and firings.
Assayer A. 1 Goodell returns from Kokomo and describes the Wilfly furnace used to matte iron sulphides from the Wilfly mines. The Austin process aims to concentrate sulphides using ore sulphur as fuel, with a hot air blast. The Ledville furnace, 83 by 140 inches, aims to process 100 tons daily. conventional furnaces handle 40 to 60 tons.
Mrs Thompson once Sarah Ann Graham, an Englishwoman who left Los Angeles for New Mexico around January 1892. Anyone knowing her present address or who can write to Corimer, British Consul, Los Angeles, Cal, is urged to come forward.
H Hallet of Denver has prospected in the Henry Mountains for six months and located several gold and copper claims. He considers a discovered mineral relic more valuable, a gold piece about 24 inches long 14 wide and 1 thick weighing 913 grains fine.
The Albuquerque Citizen reports a rock drilling contest begun at 3 am with New Mexico miners showing muscle and skill. The Walter C. Hadley team, Cheney and Barry, drilled 334 inches in twelve then fifteen minutes, winning the world championship pending cross-hammer tests with Montana rivals.
A 19th century New Mexico article extols Mrs. Barber a remarkable woman who runs a 9,000 head cattle ranch, owns half a gold rich territory, prospected mines near Medellin, commands labor, and hosts whist parties and dances at her adobe home with artful furnishings and a cultivated persona.
A condensed catalog of famed gold nuggets with weights and origins. It cites 1454 Carson Hill California 149 pounds, 1850 Corona California 151 pounds 6 ounces, 1860 Sierra Buttes California 13% pounds, 1871 Rattlesnake River California 106 pounds 2 ounces, Sierra County 106 pounds, 1871 Kanaka Creek California 96 pounds, 1869 Sierra County 1% pounds ounces, North Carolina Reed mine 800 pounds, 1842 Minsk Siberia 96 pounds 4 ounces, 1852 Australia King of Water Moon 225 pounds 4 ounces, 1854 Ballarat 184 pounds 10 ounces, 1858 Welcome Bakary Hill 182 pounds 11 ounces, 1842 Victoria Blanche Barclay 146 pounds, 1853 Ballarat 135 pounds, plus two other Ballarat nuggets of 11 pounds each, and 1851 Meroo Creek New South Wales.
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