Career
He stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election. In the King"s Birthday Honours 1927, he was made a baronet on 1 July 1927, of Alsager in Cheshire. Ernest Craig, before becoming a politician, along with many other Englishmen went west to the United States of America and to New Mexico in particular.
He owned the Last Chance Mine in Mogollon, Grant County, New Mexico, and a picture survives of him in 1908 seated in a motor vehicle at Hudson Springs (now Faywood Hot Springs).
He introduced innovative methods of extracting gold. He also established a horse and buggy transport for mining company property movement between Mogollon and Silver City.