Who owns mogollon nm

Bring a friend, red filtered flashlight, warm clothes, lawn chair, and telescope and binoculars if you have them. For more information, go to www. Facebook Twitter Email. Mogollon, a mining ghost town in the Gila, reopens mid May.

Three holes were drilled by Cordex at Anna E. Drill hole MGR cut five feet grading 0. This zone remains completely open to the west but does not appear to extend to depths below feet in the area drilled. Five holes were drilled at the Ida May-Independence vein system; these were the first holes ever drilled on these veins. Drilling cut the system between 6, and 6, feet of elevation, below barren surface faults with minor veining exposed at 7, and 7, feet of elevation.

Between 45 and 90 feet of quartz stockworks and veins were cut in all of the holes, however the best grade was 0. The vein widths and degree of alteration are increasing with depth and further drilling is recommended to cut the structures at 6,, of elevation. Three holes were drilled to test the area between the surface and mineralized intercepts encountered in the 's drilling by Cordex on the Consolidated deposit on the Queen vein.

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Dude Ranches. E-Newsletter Sign-Up. In the meantime, several other miners had made discoveries, and soon the mining camp of Mogollon sprang up in Silver Creek Canyon, which included a sawmill and several businesses. In , a post office and jail were established, and two years later, the first school was built. Several mines were developed in the area, including the Maud S.

During these days, Mogollon also earned a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the West, as gamblers, stage-coach robbers, claim jumpers, and gunmen were all called the mining camp home. From its earliest days, Mogollon was plagued with fire and flood.

The first big fire occurred in , wiping out most of the town buildings. That same year, the mining camp also suffered from a devastating flood from the melting snows and heavy spring rains. Other floods would follow in , , and , all taking with them homes, mining operations, and some of the town residents as the swift waters overflowed from Silver Creek. More fires would also occur in , , , and , resulting in yet more devastation to the town. By , Mogollon had a population of about 2, people who supported five saloons, two restaurants, four merchandise stores, two hotels, and several brothels located in two infamous red-light districts.

It also boasted the Midway Theatre, a bakery, a photographer, a couple of doctors, and various other retail businesses. In , he was still combing the mountains for yet more gold. However, in October, he failed to return home. He had frozen to death. Old mining cars abandoned in Mogollon by Kathy Weiser-Alexander. By , the town supported only about two hundred people. It recovered some in the late s when gold prices went up again, but its renewed life was short-lived.