NEWS OF GOLD STRIKE.
REVIVES HISTORIC TOWN. A void strike apparently Lass revived Columbus (New Mexico) and dissipated concern over a- report that this historic ’tit-tie town'was ito be sold for taxes.
There has been more excitement there than at any time since the United States; Army used Columbus ns a bate for the punitiYe expedition into Mexico to protect American soil from Panesho Villa's band 1 .
It is all due -to discovery of gold in the Tras Benmianas. Mountains. An essay showed that the first ore ran 743.50 dollars to the ton on the minimum lode and; 4872 dollars for the best lode. On Aug. 6, last the. New Mexico Tax Commission announced 1 .'hat 1329 lots' in Columbus would of necessity be sold for delinquent taxes and that an El Paso business man had posted a 10,000 dollar guarantee that he would bid 10,000 dollars for the property. Since the gold! strike, however, some of the delinquent taxes have b* en paid. Mr. C. tV. Powers/ Mayor, of Cm limbus, coieidentally tooJc\occa*con to. say that the town would not .’be materially affected should the tax sale go thro: gh.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 October 1928, Page 9
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