Digital Art by Val
Thomas
Jefferson Newland was born around 1830. He came to the Southwest in hopes that
the dry, desert air would ameliorate a chronic respiratory condition. He was
supporting himself as a prospector when, in 1877, he married a woman who had
worked for several years as a telegraph operator. She too had an interest in
prospecting and was willing to live in a tent in the desert. Together, they
filed on several mining claims in Yavapai and Gila Counties. As Newland’s health declined, his wife Saloma did
the actual prospecting; she brought the ores to him so he could judge whether
her find looked promising. Thomas Newland died of pneumonia on December 12,
1896, and was buried in City/Loosley Cemetery.
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