"Pay Dirt," San Mateo Mining Company, "Nigger Diggins."

Mining company prospectus

• 1920?

• San Mateo Mining Company

• Turner, Steve (Art dealer)

1 folded sheet (6 panels) : illustrations ; 23 x 66 cm, folded to 23 x 11 cm

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"General office of A. F. Wilson, President, 208 San Francisco Street, El Paso, Texas"

"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."

"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."

• New Mexico
• Sierra County (N.M.)
• Texas

• San Mateo Mining Company

• African American soldiers
• Gold mines and mining
• History
• Mining corporations
• Sources

• text

• English

Mms: 991004646269706535

[El Paso, Texas?] :, [San Mateo Mining Company],

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2024-07-20