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181. Utley, Frontiersmen, pp. 171-173.
182. Mesilla Times, October 18, 1860, p. 4.
183. Mesilla Times, October 25, 1860, p. 2; Mesilla
Times, November 1, 1860, p. 2. Despite the publish- ed schedule, at least one run to the mines was made in 20 hours. The short haul line soon lost its mail subsidy and instituted a subscription mail service. No information has been located indicating how long the Catlett service survived.
184. Robert Marshall Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn, The Indian Wars (New York: Bonanza Books, 1982), pp. 197-198.
185. Thrapp, Victorio, p. 21. Steck had previously reported that the Mimbres Apaches deeply resented the reopening of the Santa Rita mines, not so much
that it had been done without their or their Agent’s consent, but because the operator and the laborers were from Mexico.
186. Anderson, “Mining,” p. 100.
187. San Francisco Herald, November 20, 1860, p. 3 copying the Mesilla Times of November 8; San Francisco Herald, December 27, 1860 p. 3 copying the Mesilla Times of December 13; San Francisco Herald, January 1, 1861, p. 3, copying the Mesilla Times of December 20, 1860; Tevis, Arizona, pp. 206-216; Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 68-69. Tevis, as in other places, is confused on the time of the event.
188. Anderson, “Mining”, p. 115.
189. Southern News, January 4, 1861, p. 3 copying the Mesilla Times of December 27, 1860.
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