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Map, Los Cerrillos Mine, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, black and white, surveyed by J. L. Hayward, U.S.M.D.S., while at Turquoise City, approximate course of mineral veins, sites, names, claims, coal mining lands, August 1880
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This amazing collection was compiled by Homer Milford and donated to the Center for Southwest Research by Paul R. Secord, of Albuquerque. The Galisteo and Cerrillos mining areas are rich in minerals, including silver, copper, mangansese, iron, galena and gold, as well as turqouise. The following discussion of the Cerrillos mining is abstracted from a manuscript, contained in its entirety in this archive, prepared by Bill Baxter about 2014. “In early 1879, when the miners began arriving in...
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August 1880