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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION November 30, 1970 Cole. ffioe at farnished the He has. in ths past, been acquaintd with siLAs NewrON who have been engagsd in auwsrous mining Wntures in th. vicinity of silver City and Grant Commty, Naw Xaxi oo. He has seen recant publicity in the Silver City. nawspaper concerning a mins noar Buckhorn reportadly operated by nwron and he has, in fact, had occasion to perform assay tasts os saples of ore allegedly coming from ths mine near Bugkhorn as well as from a mine near Vanadium, New Mexioo, also rportadly operatad by Nrwron He said hi. Pyp pue ssory?Ion sem oie oy? ley? paoid aIo oua uo sae? not contain substaatial amewnts of silver or mrcury as Indicated in the publicity in the looal press. He further New Mexido, made mntion of tho possibility of mercury in this ares, whlch ha stated was praetically impossible inasmdh as this area is located in an old lava flow where mreury would be wnlikeiy to be found. b7C statad that his offic. Jto an office oeeupied by Newron nd the partitieas in the office were very thin and Newrow. being .ldorly, were somwhat hard of hearing and conrrsed in lowd voice. He does recall hearing convsrsation thromgh the partition at one tim wherein sommbody was being asked or told to go to El Paso and buy a quantity of bmroury. Ho. coald oonclude only that the purpose of ths mercary was to b. used to *sait" the mine aither near Backhorn or Vanadium, New Mexico, with the idea of convincing somone that the mine was, in faet, valaable for the purpose of obtaining mercury. continuad that it has been rwsored that an individaal known as had advanced a snbstantial sum of money, something in the neighborhood of $5o,000, to. MEWION ostensibly for derelopment work on the Buckhorn could conclude only knowing NewroN's background as -1l/24/M .1 _Si1wr City+Nw Max1cQ__Fl._AQ 87-Z86l 11/25/70