A miner named John Eberle built the first cabin in Mogollon in 1889, after mines were developed in Silver Creek, which runs through the town.

During the 1860s, miners temporarily named the settlement "Lake City", but only alluvial gold was discovered, so the temporary establishment was abandoned as most mining activity moved fifty miles (80 km) north to the town of Warren.

"In 1893 when placer gold was discovered in the normally dry washes which drain the El Paso Mountains, not surprisingly the miners named one of them Goler Gulch after the famous long-lost 'mine' of John Goller."

Some of them had cracked over a platinoid-rich mafic igneous intrusion that the miners had named the Merensky Reeflets.

"I don't want to sound cold or bitter, but they lost the war," says a miner named Darryl Lindsey, and he doesn't sound cold or bitter; he is just stating matter-of-factly what many people no doubt believe.

Near the end of her life she married a miner named John Matson, who remained in Alaska as she stayed in Oregon.

The members of the Xenobrood were suppsoedly created as "organic robots", drone servants used as miners by an alien race named the Vimanians who had made contact with the ancient Sumerians.

In 1898, 28 miners named the community that they organized for the bald eagles that nested on the bluff.

Property values there were high, so several miners settled on a ridge to the north of it and named their settlement "Rockpile".

She kept house for her invalid mother until she married her first husband, a miner named John O'Hara.