Entrance to the Bridal Veil Silver Mine at Lake Valley, New Mexico, circa 1890-1910. The mining town of Lake Valley was founded on public and private land in 1878, six years after the passage of the still-extant national mining legislation that allows just about anyone to claim exclusive rights to mineral deposits on federal land. Source: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
