Newspaper Articles, Washington County, MO Genealogy Trails

Newspaper Articles

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
July 2 1823 Page 2

Silver Mines – Late accounts from Washington County, Missouri, inform (says the Lexington Gazette of 5^th inst.) that a trading party was forming to visit Santa Fee in Mexico, and to open a silver mine that was discovered last summer high up on the Arkansas River. The quantity and richness of the Mineral affords the most flattering prospect of a very extensive manufactory of silver within the limits of the United States. – Ib.
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