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88. Dudley to AAAG, February 20, 1881, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
89. Waters, Steel Trails p. 60. ,
90. KeithL.Bryant,Jr.,HistoryoftheAtchison, TopekaandSantaFeRailway(NewYork:Macmil- lan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974), p. 80; Jerry L. Wil- liams (ed.), New Mexico in Maps (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1986), p. 119.
91. DudleytoLee,March24,1881,LettersSent, Roll 1.
92. Dudley to AAG, March 24, 26, 1881, ibid.
93. Thrapp, Conquest, pp. 212-216.
94. Grant County Herald, August 27, 1881, p. 3:4;
Stephen H. Lekson, Nana’s Raid: Apache Warfare in Southern New Mexico, 1881 (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1987), pp. 29-33.
95. Dudley to Carpenter, March 7, 1881, Letters Sent, Roll 1; George A. Forsyth, The Story of a Soldier (New York: D. Appleton and Company,
1900), pp. 141-143; Utley, Frontier Regidars, p. 87. 96. Post Adjutant to Carpenter, January 13, March
15, 1882, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
97. Morris Bien to General Land Office Commis-
sioner (Washington, October 3, 1894), Las Cruces BLM, Fort Cummings File, p. 4-4; Forsyth to Stern, December 5, 1881, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
98. Forsyth to Stern, January 4, 10, 1882, ibid.
99. Post Adjutant to AAAG, February 13, 1882, ibid.
100. John Philip Wilson (ab.), Fort Cummings, New Mexico - Abstract of Monthly Post Returns Oc- tober 1869 - September 1886 (Santa Fe: Museum of NewMexico,1970),p.5,fromthepostannualin- spection report.
101. George A. Forsyth, Thrilling Days in Army Life (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900), pp. 84-119; Paul Iselin Wellman, Death in the Desert:
The Fifty Years’ War for the Great Southwest (New York:TheMacmillanCompany,1935),pp.207-217.
102. Philip J. Rasch, “The Rustler War,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 39 (Oct., 1964), pp. 258-268.
103. Forsyth to Lawton, September 7, Forsyth to Brockman, September 12, Forsyth to Hafner, Sep- tember 12, Forsyth to Magnir, September 17, For- syth to Bradley, November 22, 1882, Letters Sent, Fort Cummings, Post Records, Record Group 393, National Archives (Microfilm copy at Rio Grande Historical Collection, New Mexico State University, Roll 2), (hereafter cited as Letters Sent, Roll 2).
104. Caldwell, Last Retreat, p. 86.
105. Forsyth to AAG, January 5, Forsyth to Com- missioner of Agriculture, January 11, 1883, Letters Sent,Roll2.
106. RoscoeG.Willson,PioneerandWellKnown Cattleman ofArizona (Phoenix: McGrew Commer- cial Printery, 1956), p. 58.
107. Cora Viola Slaughter, “Texas-Arizona Cattle Drives,”SlaughterPapers,(nodate),ArizonaHis- torical Society, Tucson, pp. 22-23.
108. Wilson, Post Returns, pp. 81-83.
109. Overton to AAG, July 18, Wilcox to AAG, July 23, 1884, Letters Sent, Roll 2.
110. Wilson, Post Returns, pp. 84-87; Lee Myers, “Military Establishments in Southwestern New Mexico: Stepping Stones to Settlement,” New Mexico Historical Review Vol. 43 (Jan., 1968), p. 39.
111. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 88.
112. Several explanations are possible for this. The men were primarily experienced with placer mining for precious metals and may not have con- ceived mineral deposits high up on the mountain. Or perhaps they did learn of the lead deposits and did not consider it worth the manpower and development work necessary to freight the ore to market. And, under any circumstances, the Apaches would still have to be dealt with.
113. Fayette Alexander Jones, New Mexico Mines and Minerals (Santa Fe: The New Mexico Printing Company, 1904), p. 181 (hereafter cited as Jones, Mines and Minerals).
114. Grant County Herald, January 6, 1877, p. 1:4. DemingGraphic,June17,1903,p.1:1. Irington’s name was also recorded by various sources as Iriton and Ireton. There was a conflict in available sources here as the Montezuma ownership was later credited to Taylor and Wheeler. Perhaps Orr and Irington sold out.
115. ThomasMatthousePearceassistedbyIna Sizer Cassidy and Helen S. Pearce (eds.), New Mexico Place Names (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1965), p. 66.
116. Grant County Herald, February 20, 1876, p. 4:3.
117. Ibid., September 9, 1876, p. 3:2.
118. Grant County Herald, January 6, 1877, p. 1:4. The lack of a nearby railroad continued to hamper the development of the highly concentrated lead ores until 1881 because of the overwhelming logisti- cal problem of shipping.
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