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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Medford mining matters. (search)
. . found only a hole in the ground. . . no buildings or machinery. . . nothing doing. Others were at the time in question incredulous, saying it was a scheme to sell land. This was before the territory became a public reservation, also before the construction of the Winchester reservoir, which now stretches away from the near-by Old Tony's ledge, toward the Lawrence observatory on Ram's Head. The spot is shown on the map of the Fells and marked old silver mine, and the elevation of Silver Mine hill given as two hundred and fifty-five feet. At this remote day it is difficult to get at satisfactory conclusions. One says to us, Fiction is always readable, but don't believe it. The story of night and day gangs of miners, heavy blasting, and richness of ore in recent accounts do not accord with the testimony of old residents. The Mercury, in its resume of ‘81, said:— Who in Medford would have risked a pair of old shoes on the prophecy, that in the course of the year, silver mine