The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

F returning at the rateof a.G00 ounces sill
yer. per ton.
san Andreas district Is represented
by ore from the Nora Harrington run
ming one ounce gold, thirteen ounces
silver and thirty-esght per cent copper
/ per ton. The minerals are gray copper.
copper glance and oxide. which occur
quite solid and pure. Similar ore from
I the Sucker State il exhibited, which
runs forty ounces silver and twenty-five
per cent. copper, from the Emma four
teen ounces silver and forty to seventy
per cent. copper, and from the Grand
surldlse, ffty per cent. copper. Native
copper In Hypersthene is shown from
the Graphic mine. White mountains; /;
also free milling silver ore from the
Red Chief. Among the displays in thus
\ department Is some specular iron ore
containing lfty-slx per cent. metallic
iron. with little silver and gold asso-
ciated. some native sulphur. gypsum,
camel coal and good variety of mis-
eellaneous specimens.
In the display from Dona Ana county
are some fine copper ORES from the
Memphis. The minerals are copper
glance and red oxide carrying Slsl
silver and sGj gold per ton. The FL
Paso sends some oxide and gray ear
Donate of copper ore which runs 81 per
cent. copper, and the Little Buck some
solid greenish chloride of silver having
a little native silver and black sulphur
cts associated. Mill-runs have returned
from 100 % 800 ounces silver per ton.
The Brown Bear,J district sends
carbonate from pay streak said to be
$50 feet wide, and the Tough Nut has
a highly slllceous ore carrying sulphur
cts slightly copper stained and running
from l5j to ldS ounces silver per ton.
Some pieces Of micaceous schist, en-.
closing staurollte crystals, are also ex-
hibited.
In the display from the Black Range
which comprises gold and silver miner
ais the BraXton makes "a good showing.
the ore Is compact white quartz, con-
tanning black sulphurets in blotches
through IT, and is said to run two hun
dred and seventy ounces gold and five
hundred ounces silver to the ton. The
Great Republic also exhibits similar ore
somewhat stained by iron and copper
oxides, aud running one hundred Ouu-
ceS gold and four thousand ounces sill
ver to the ton. The lyanhoe shows the
richest ore in the display. IL is free
gold and black sulphurets with some
ehalc0pyrite and malaehite, and is said
TO assay twelve thousand ounces silver
and two thousand ounces gold per ton.
The Occidental is more modest. and
sends some compact, ,iron-stained quartz
carrying little sulphurets, and run
ming four hundred ounces silver and
twenty ounces gold per ton. From
Apache district the Wall Street sends
a greenish yellow chloride ore, contain
ing native silver. and some argentite.
4 shipment of forty tons averaged $3.50
per ton. The ore from the Highland
Chief, which is seven miles distant, as
practically the same Us also is that of
the Way Up and King. The Colossal
shows some copper glance and bornite
in quartz, aud containing 964 ounces in
silver per ton. The Silver Monument
makes capital display of ore contain
ing 4l3 ounces silver and q per cent
copper per ton. The mineral is b1rniie
III quartzose gangue, and is the finest
display of that mineral ut the expOsi'
ton. The Livingston Consolidated
shows some native copper, red oxide
and carbonate, each separate and mas.
siye. The oxides and carbonates are
said to carry 1872 ounces silver, two
ounces gold and twenty per cent. cop.
per. From the White Signal tunnel is
some copper glance III quartz, and aver.
aging in IA three-foot pay streak, fifty
Out OuuCto SllNti, biic uuHSc Ebiu aiiu
, three per cent. copper. Some solid
: chalcoclte and bornite in quartz gangue
, and containing POO ounces of silver and
twenty-one per cent. copper are exhib'
tied from the Dreadnaught. From the
Cuchillo Negro district, the Black
] Knife and Rife Shot show galena and
copper glance carrying AGO ounces silver
: per ton. From Cooks Peak the Carbon
. ate sends argentlferous galena in hon
/ eycombed. ironstained quartz and car
! rying eighty ounces silver and thirty
, per cent. lead per ton.
! From Santa Fe county. the Avondalt
placer district sends piece of surfac,
/ ore containing galena and gray copper
+ which runs 1918 ounces silver per ton
The Nick of Time shows galena ant
9 other sulphurets running sixty hv'
D ounces OF silver per ton. The San Fran
/, cisco shows copper sulphide and car
y Donate running twenty-five por cent
e metal and containing nearly one ounc'
: gold per ton. The San Pedro sends 20t
| nnunda of iron and annunr uvrtt pa pnn