Download or read book Silver Plated Deceit the Story of Mining in Lake Valley New Mexico written by Elias Clark and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of mining in Lake Valley, New Mexico, a short-lived silver mining boom-town in southern New Mexico roughly between Hillsboro and Deming. It draws from a number of sources compiled by the late Homer E. Milford when he worked for the New Mexico Abandoned Mine Land Bureau in the 1980s and '90s.The Lake Valley story is fairly typical of what happened in many western mining towns, although it is especially dramatic in the magnitude of "wheeling and dealing", coupled with numerous coloful characters, an especially rich deposit of silver, and a series of comtemporary photographs and documents, that all together present an extraordinary tale of the West.It is dangerous as well as libelous to accuse someone of dishonesty if you cannot prove it, even a hundred years after his or her death. George D. Roberts and J. Whitaker Wright, the promoters of the Lake Valley mines from 1881 to late 1883, started their venture with the intent to sell what they thought was a small silver deposit for dozens of times its real mining value. Roberts and Wright had successful careers buying deposits or mines and then forming mining companies to sell stock to the public at inflated prices. By manipulating the news their mine managers gave the press, they could raise and lower the stock prices numerous times making a profit in both directions. They knew that eventually each company would be considered worthless and anticipated that event by selling their stock before this occurred. Roberts generally had one or more new companies underdevelopment to replace the companies that got discredited. I have tried to avoid using derogatory terms to describe Roberts and Wright. Every derogatory term I know, and some I did not know were applied to Roberts in the press almost 120 years ago. These ranged from mild ones like "dishonest" to "his Satanic Majesty." Roberts was never convicted of stock fraud, but Wright was in 1904. With the exception of quotes from the press, mild terms are used for these men in this history. This is not because I think they were mhonest or had anything but the worst of intentions, but because I admire the skill they demonstratedin what was then and now illegal. These men made at least one positive contribution to mining. The mills they built to impress the public, to entice them into buying stock, were often later used by honest miners. This was an inadvertent contribution to the development of mining in North America, Australia and Africa.
Download or read book The Story of Mining in New Mexico written by Paige W. Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living in Silverado written by David M. Gitlitz and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoroughly researched work, David M. Gitlitz traces the lives and fortunes of three clusters of sixteenth-century crypto-Jews in Mexico’s silver mining towns. Previous studies of sixteenth-century Mexican crypto-Jews focus on the merchant community centered in Mexico City, but here Gitlitz looks beyond Mexico’s major population center to explore how clandestine religious communities were established in the reales, the hinterland mining camps, and how they differed from those of the capital in their struggles to retain their Jewish identity in a world dominated economically by silver and religiously by the Catholic Church. In Living in Silverado Gitlitz paints an unusually vivid portrait of the lives of Mexico’s early settlers. Unlike traditional scholarship that has focused mainly on macro issues of the silver boom, Gitlitz closely analyzes the complex workings of the haciendas that mined and refined silver, and in doing so he provides a wonderfully detailed sense of the daily experiences of Mexico’s early secret Jews.
Download or read book Lost Treasures Old Mines written by Ann Lacy and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost Treasures & Old Mines" brims with stories of gold fever, copper ore, and silver mining in the American Southwest.
Download or read book Real del Monte written by Robert W. Randall and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To speak of mining in newly independent Mexico is to speak of silver. And silver, historically abundant in the Real del Monte–Pachuca district, was the object of the Company of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte. Organized in response to a plea by Pedro Romero de Terreros for help in rehabilitating his famous family’s once-rich properties, the English Real del Monte was led by men convinced that the application of English capital, management practices, and technology to those ruined mines and mills would reap them a profit and would revitalize the new nation’s most promising industry. The adventurers were to be disappointed. The story of the English company is one of financial disaster: the loss of more than $5 million between its beginning in 1824 and its dissolution in 1849. Yet this failure was ironic, for upon the foundations of the English company was built a modern concern that yielded great rewards to Mexican and American successors to the hapless Englishmen. A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry. It offers specific solutions to poorly understood historical problems concerning the wave of capital that flowed from Great Britain into Latin America upon the disruption of the Spanish Empire, problems hitherto treated only in generalizations.
Download or read book Silver Strike written by William T. Stoll and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Download or read book Silver Strike written by William Tecumseh Stoll and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ueber Vanadate und Jodsilber Von Lake Valley Donna Anna County New Mexico written by Frederick Augustus Genth and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Mexico s Magic M written by New Mexico Mining Association and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakspeare Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company of New Mexico written by Shakspeare Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company of New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silver by Fire Silver by Mercury A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico 16th to 19th Centuries written by Saul Guerrero and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries, Saul Guerrero combines historical research with geology and chemistry to refute the current prevailing narrative of a primitive effort dominated by mercury and its copious emissions to the air. Based on quantitative historical data, visual records and geochemical fundamentals, Guerrero analyses the chemical and economic reasons why two refining processes had to share production, creating along the way major innovations in the chemical recipes, milling equipment, mercury recycling practice, and industrial architecture and operations. Their main environmental impact was lead fume and the depletion of woodlands from smelting, and the transformation of mercury into calomel during the patio process.
Download or read book La Sinaloa Silver Mining Company State of Sinaloa Mexico written by La Sinaloa Silver Mining Company and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Fillmore Silver Mining Co New Mexico written by John Titcomb Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Stephenson Silver Mining Co written by Stephenson Silver Mining Company and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Location of Mine Silver City New Mexico written by Massachusetts and New Mexico Mining Company and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Gold and Silver Mining Company Grant County New Mexico written by F. C. Dean and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Empire and Silver State New York and Nevada Silver Mining and Mill Company written by Empire and Silver State Mining and Mill Company and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
