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119. Ibid., January 13, 1877, p. 1:4, February 8, 1879,p.3:2;Jones,MinesandMinerals, p.182.
Emerson Twitchell, The Leading Facts of New MexicoHistory,Vol.3(CedarRapids,Iowa:The TorchPress,1917),p.315. TheFortCummings microfilm records, Letters Sent, Roll 2, fail to support this oft stated stipulation.
127. Black Range, October 6, 1882, p. 1:5.
128. LaPorta, Luna County, p. 97.
129. George B. Griswold, Mineral Deposits of
Luna County, New Mexico (Socorro: State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico In- stitute of Mining & Technology, Campus Station, 1961), p. 94. Jose was only active until about 1905 according to John Philip Wilson, “Jose,” Antiquities SiteInventory(LasCruces:BureauofLandManage- ment, August 27, 1975), p. 1. Indeed, it did not merit its own post office, according to Todsen, Letter to the Author, until Samuel E. Wood was appointed postmaster June 11, 1902. The facility lasted only until December 30, 1905, when the office was closed and the mail forwarded to Cooks.
130. Jicha, Jr., Geology, p. 66.
131. ElizabethHyatt,NoteinDeming-LunaCoun- ty Mimbres Museum Archives (February, 1985), p. 2 (hereafter cited as Hyatt, Note to Museum).
132. Jicha, Jr., Geology, p. 62. The cave’s height was unrecorded.
133. OvertontoColegrove,July11,1884,Letters Sent, Roll 2.
134. BureauofCensus,NewMexicoTerritory, Special Census, 1885, Territorial Archives of New Mexico, Microfilm Roll No. 41, p. 73 (hereafter cited as Census, 1885).
135. Black Range, May 9, 1890, p. 2:1.
136. Ibid., January 30, 1891,p.3:2. WilliamMoore was in charge of the Surprise Mine.
137. Deming Headlight, n.d., 1892, p. 6.
138. Todsen, Letter to the Author. The only postmistress, J anie Hitchins, was not appointed until September 26, 1908, and the post office functioned until 1916, after which the mail was forwarded to Nutt.
139. Jean LaPorta, Luna County, p. 97. Charles Poe died May 17, 1914, in Deming.
140. MichaelJenkinson,“Cook’sPeakandthe Bones of Sing Lee,” Frontier Times, Vol. 44 (June- July, 1970), p. 15 (hereafter cited as Jenkinson, “Bones”).
141. James E. Sherman and Barbara H. Sherman, Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975), p.
120.Todsen,LettertotheAuthor;DemingHerald, April 23, 1901, p. 1:1; Sharman Apt Russell, “Cooke’s Peak,” New Mexico, Vol. 66 (March, 1988), pp. 43-47. Throughout this effort the name used for the community will be Cooks.
Contemporaneous documents refer to Cook’s Peak and Cook’s Peak Mining District and universally call the community Cooks, as did the United States Post Office. In more recent years, historians, led by people such as Dr. Myra Ellen Jenkins, have successfully restored the “e” to Cooke’s Peak, Cooke’s Canyon, and Cooke’s Spring. However,contrarytoRussell’spresenta- tion, the community was initially named Cooks (however mistakenly) and was never called Cooke’s,
or Cookes, and certainly not Cooke’s Peak.
121. Grant County Herald, June 16, 1877, p. 3:2,
June 30, 1877, p. 3:4.
122. Grant County Herald, January 17, 1880, p. 3:4;
James A. McKenna, Black Range Tales (Chicago: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., 1965), pp. 190-193 (hereafter cited as McKenna, Tales). This is one of the few instances in which McKenna’s tales are sub- stantiated by another source. However, McKenna embellishes the story by offering that Victorio was eitherwoundedorkilledintheengagementandthat Baxter was assassinated later, by Apache escapees fromtheSanCarlosreservation,forhavingrevealed to them his alleged role in the affair.
123. Deming Graphic, June 17, 1903, p. 1:3.
124. Henry Louis Jicha, Jr., Geology and Mineral Deposits of Lake Valley Quadrangle, Grant, Luna and Sierra Counties, New Mexico (Socorro: State
Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Campus Station, 1954), p. 66 (hereafter cited as Jicha, Jr., Geology); Patricia F. Meleski, Echoes of the Past (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972), p. 172. Taylor and Wheeler sold the Des- demona and Othello to J. K. Gooding and Giles O. Pierce in 1882, who sold out to the Consolidated Kansas Smelting and Refining Company, which in turnsoldthepropertytotheAmericanSmeltingand
Refining Company (ASARCO).
125. Hadley Draw was named for Walter Hadley,
one of the early Cooke’s Peak miners, and father of Hiram Hadley, first president of present-day New Mexico State University.
126. Jones, Mines and Minerals, p. 181-182; Ralph
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