Silver City Mining Co. was a mining company in Silver City, Arizona. It was featured in the comic series "Cowboys & Aliens."
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Silver City Mining Co. was founded by Alan S. Cross Esq., its president, and later also becoming the mayor of Silver City after discovering silver in the foothills. By 1868 Silver City became a boomtown due to the wealth of the silver. However over the next five years, sixteen claims were made at the company, each one becoming a bust.
In 1873, evidently the silver dried up, and soon the townsfolk began to leave. Silver City was soon on its way to becoming a ghost town, leaving Cross taking up the roles of not just mayor and mining owner, but President of the Chamber of Commerce for the town. The man still sought to make money off the town, thus he started advertising that the silver in Silver City was still flowing and soliciting himself as Head of the Silver City Homesteaders' Bureau to sell land for $1 an acre to settlers.