The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-29
CHLORIDE CITY.

NE1AON10E Nj T.
A, No. 1 co6k Wanted at the
Chloride hotel5estaurant. None others
Nose THOMPSON has gone to San
Francisc9bn business.
]. II. Beesen, from Carthage, Mo-,
casts his fortune with the Black range
this week.
Major Beebe is working on the Rover,
a claim lying east of the Garfield lode
south Of Chloride.
W. II. Moqe starts from Nebraska
City fer the snQe on the arst, and will
get here theRast of the week.
Dunn and Bishop expect to have the
timbering finished and everything in
readiness to begin sinking ON the
Buffum by the first of February.
An assay outfit, Tremner rider bal
ance with corresponding fixtures for
sale cheap of Joe Moorhead, Robinson.
A crowd of Chloride men eight or ten
strong has gone to the Palomas to see
that all the good properties down there
are not relocated by tenderfeet or blarst-
cd foreigners.
MIR. Wagner the gentleman who pur-
chased the Black Knight and Extenuate
group of prospects on upper Chloride
creek, recently, has been prospecting the
leads and is much pleased with his bar
gain. The property has doubled in value
in his eyes since he took possession.
Oysters served in any style at the
Chloride hotel restaurant.
Richard Mansfield White is working
four men on the Paiomas Chief proper.
ty located on Pafomas creek. The tn n
mel is in a fine body of exceedingly rich
ore which is considered now to be the
lead proper, though it has always been
termed a huge deposit. If it proves tC
be the lead it is an immense one.
The Colossal shaft is one hundred
and twenty-five feet deep. and the ore
now being hoisted from the bottom az
the work of sinking continues exceed,
in richness anything before found, and
that is saying much. The ore crevict
is two and a half feet wide. Another
shipment will be made shortly.
w. H. Johnson, who formerly ha(
charge of the work of the Wall Stree
but who now is superintendent of tn,
Superior mine at Kingston, anne up Il
this end of the range yesterday. HI
was billed to meet Mr.. Watson here
but the theft of his horse and saddle OF
the journey up interfered and he wa!
too late for this object.
A half interest in the Antelope CLAIM
on PalOmas creek has been given t.
parties who will sink q one hundret
foot shaft as an equivalent. Thi
is the property on which the rich strikI
of sulphurets was made some week
ago. Forty pounds of the ore wer
sent to the sampling works this weel
which assay five dollars per poun,
silver.
The shaft of the Alta ON Chord
creek is now down one hundred AM
ten feet and the formation has becom
solid. Messrs. Traub and Fulton, tn
two owners who are working it, hav
been working most of the fall and wiz
ter in Strengthening and enlarging tn
!, shaft. This work has taken them Of
} the ledge, but the indications are tina
, the bottom of the shaft will soon Gu
, into the ledge matter. The mine ha
shown fine mineral, and when th
, crevice is reached there is little doub
that the ore will be found better tina
ever.
An eight inch streak OF fine sulphu
ret mineral but of a different characte
| from anything before found in tn
| range, has been recently struck on til
Tar Heel claim, which IS the south ~
tensions Of the H~ardscrabble on tn
White Signal lode, and belongs to til
Taylor brothers Of Grafton. No OF
showed on the surface nor at the boi
: tom OF q ten foot hole, but in the secon'
. ten feet the crevice appeared and wa
shown UP eight inches wide. Bdll