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This FBI Freedom of Information release collects Albuquerque field office reports from July 1970 to May 1971 on Silas Mason Newton, the Buckhorn Mining Company and the Magnetic Research Foundation, which were investigated for interstate transportation of stolen property and confidence games. Agents suspected that Newton was running a salted mining swindle near Silver City, New Mexico, since assays found no mercury or silver in the ore. The file also lists his arrest record. The case was closed after a lender said he had not been swindled.
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## AT SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO The August 12, 1970, issue of the "Silver City Daily Press," published at Silver City, New Mexico, contained on the front page two photographs bearing the caption, "New Mine Near Buckhorn." The caption under the photographs continued to state that S. M. NEWTON shipped ore samples from the above shown mine to California by air Monday to be assayed. The mine, which is believed to contain silver ore, is located about one mile north of Buckhorn in Western Grant County. The mine is located on the side of a hill on state land and is near an area where NEWTON has been seeking mercury for about five years. A fault runs through the area of the small pit and black rock is located in the earth below the fault.
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.