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Mining company prospectus Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Text "Our property is located about nine miles north of the old Spanish town and settlement of Monticello, New Mexico, formerly known as Canyon de Alamosa. It is located in the United States Forest Reserve, including thirty mining claims (600 acres) covering the entire workings and mineral bearing zone of the 'Nigger Diggins." "The 'Nigger Diggins' was rediscovered some months ago by Sam Hidalgo an old time prospector and miner of Hillsboro, New Mexico. 'When I was a little boy I heard my grandfather Francisco Chavez, tell about a rich Spanish gold and silver mine in the southwest part of the San Mateo mountains,' says Hidalgo 'and afterwards when some negro soliders found it and took out a lot of high grade ore, grandfather remarked that it must be the old mine." Panel title "The Nigger Diggins, located in the highly mineralized district of the State of New Mexico, under the shadow of the San Mateo peak about 10,000 ft. altitude is one of the most romantically famous of the 'lost mines' of the southwest and Mexico, now the property of the San Mateo Mining Company." "General office of A. F. Wilson, President, 208 San Francisco Street, El Paso, Texas" [El Paso, Texas?] :, [San Mateo Mining Company],
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text
Format
1 folded sheet (6 panels) : illustrations ; 23 x 66 cm, folded to 23 x 11 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1578514k
Language
English
Subject
Sources Gold mines and mining Mining corporations History African American soldiers San Mateo Mining Company New Mexico Sierra County (N.M.) Texas
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