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

CHLORIDE HOTEL


IS ona of the kind seldom found in
mining caps. Here We had wild turkey
quail, bear, venison, etc., and what was
better vet it was prepared in the finest
manner. The rooms are nicely fur
nlshed and the guests are made to feel'
comfortable and at home by the oblig.
ing landlord, II. G. Rickert, who knows
exactly what to do at the right time
and place.
ROBINSON ..-t
is situated at the junction Of two hand,
some and fertile valleys about three
miles from Fairview. From this place
the road extends'to Grafton, while one
road branches from the valley and ex-
tends to st. Charles. AT Robinson we
found commodious and substantial
buildings, a large hotel, business houses,
postoffice, etc. The
BLACK RANGE,
a large and able weekly newspaper, is
published here by V. B. Beckett. 1t is
one of the best weeklies published in
New Mexico, and is full of information
concerning this section of the territory.
About seven miles from here we reach
the camp of
GRAFTON.
Close by this camp are situated the IA
nous lyanhoe, the Alaska, and many
prospects upon the same large vein,
which have been developed only to a
limited extent Meeting c.. Z. Kings
bury, formerly one of the owners of
the Kelly mine, we found that he was
superintendent of some of the best
properties in the range, the following
being among tile most prominent: The
Great Republic situated on Poverty
creek, shows one of the finest groupings
i'll the range; it has been developed by
a shaft seventy.five feet in depth and
produces ore which has assayed very
high. The Keystone is the second mine
south of the Great Republic, and al
though it has only twenty-five foot
shaft has shown assays as high as
thirty-three ounces in gold. Next south
of this is situated the Great Southwest
with ninety foot shaft. which is show
ing some fine ore, principally some sui
phurets. The U, S. Treasury is the
second claim north of the. noted White
Signal mine. In this claim vein of
ore thirty-six inches wide gives an assay
from ore taken from the top to the
bottom of the shaft, of $5S per ton,
while the fourteen inch vein with ore
selected in the same manner, assays
$S3 per ton. Adjoining the U. S. Treas
ury is the White Eagle, which has a
streak of some twenty inches of high
grade ore, while about three inches OF
this runs twenty ounces IN gold. The
ore is somewhat decomposed, and q
twenty-five pound sample of the fine
material taken from the waste dump
as an average of the dump, gave al
assay value $43 per ton. In addition
to being superintendent of these prop
erties Mr.. Kingsbury is interested with
his brother in forty-five claims situated
in the range. OF these we noticed The
Ada mine in Wild Horse gulch. 1t ha:
a shaft about fifteen feet in depth, anC
and makes one of the finest showing:
of ore to be found in the north end d
range, and we understand that the orr
assays well. Another OF the properties
owned by the Kingsbury brothers o.
Grafton, is the True Blue, also situated
in Wild Horse gulch. This property
shows some high assays in both silvel
and gold, with only a fifteen foot shaft
and should certainly be developed.
Grafton is a good camp, with post
office, assay Offices and other conYen
fences, also the headquarters of man,
of the mining men of this part of tn,
range. Here we found a comfortabl,
hotel called the
GRAFTON HOUSE.
1t is two story building, recently con
structed by the present proprletors TO
the accommodation of transient guests
In addition to the ordinary bill of far,
we found the table abundantly supplied
with variety of wild game. We foun(
the business interests of Grafton repre-
sented by f II. Winston & Co. with {
stock of general merchandise and min
: ers' supplies. A. P. Dyer & Co. will
groceries, etc. N. Uptegrove, billiart
hail. George Weber, wagon and black
smith shop. While at this place W.
had the pleasure of meeting A. r.. Bowe
: Esq, superintendent of the Royal Arcl
mine, which has been worked by TIVE
shafts, fifty and seventy feet, It show
about two and one-half feet of ore tina
runs from eighty to one hundred ounces
, silver and from one and one-half t
two ounces gold. The Lucky Lou anC
T Lottie are also owned by the sam
company. and. in which Mr.. Bowe is
: one-fourth owner. Over the hills abou
:. five miles north of Grafton is situatel
the camp Of .~a.g e~s
II ST. CHARLES.