The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-31
CHLORIDE.

The Exchange saloon sells schooners
Of lemonade for five and ten cents.
Try them.
Westerman & Co. are digging them
selves a well this week. They struck
water at thirty-6ve feet.
A Mexican brought in a young fawn
a few days ago and now Westerman
& Co. have two of them.
If the concentration scheme proves a
success it will start work on many ex-
cellent properties now lying idle.
fl. E. Patrick has improved the APP
pearance OF his houses by a front fence
about them. 1t is a great beautiier.
Walter Wagner and @. E. Boatman
departed the range on Tuesdays stage,
the former enroute for Denver and the
latter going to his former home in Paris,
Illinois.
w. F. Caldwell is engaged In working
the second assessment of his Mountain
King lode up Chloride creek. He is do
ing the work In a new place this year
and it is showing up finely.
Tom Yates and Chas. oyer took their
departure for Hillsboro this week, to
do assessment work on the Stonewall
Jackson and other gold claims which
they have in that vicinity.
Richard Mansfield White finds in his
shaft on the Embolite claim, on the Pa
Tomas, a clear white sand resembling
the sand of the sea shore which assays
fo~rty-nine ounce of silver and no lead.
This Is something new.
Wednesday was the eight anniver-
sary of the birth day of Miss Jessie
Moore who entertained her little COM
panions at the residence of Mrs. Chas,
Myers. The occasion was made a
happy one by the children who would
like "a birthday party every day in the
year.
Doug. Robertson this week received
a very complete set of taxerdermists
instruments and he proposes to make a
collection of the birds of the Black
range. With DR.. HaskelPs mineral
collection. DR.. Bllnn's insects and rep
tiles and Doug. Robertson's birds and
animals Chloride will be able to show
visitors about all there is to be seen in
this section of country.
The Chloride and Fairview base ball
mines were so elated over their score of
last Sunday that they have agreed to
play on next Sunday for a purse of
twenty dollars. The game will be
played at Fairview, The consecutive
defeats of the Chloride boys have arous-
( ed their mettle and they are doing some
practicing this week. The game is ex-
pected to be a good one.
Stanford White an eminent architect
of New York city, and Augustus st.
Gauden, a well-known sculptor of the
same city, and the gentleman who has
the contract TO carve the Lincoln stat
ure for Chicago, spent a few days of
this week, with Richard Mansfield
White the formers brother. The visit
ors are making a visit to Oregon and
took in this country on the side. They
resumed their journey yesterday morn
ing.
Work was begun on the Humboldt
Mining company's properties in the
north end of the Cuchillos this week.
Atwo hundred foot contract was given
to II. s. Sherraad which consists of
one hundred and fifty feet additional
work in the main tunnel on the Little
Luella with something like fifty feet
more of the drift to the right. Alloys
Preisser, the H~umboldt's assayer and
engineer has been surveying for the
new work this week and it will be
done with more exactness in the future
than In the past.
The Silver Monument matters have
been all settled up and are now in good
shape. w. H. Moore has a short time
bond on the property, and he expects a
a purchaser for 1t to arriue soon. The
bond for sale is signed by both the
lessee and the owners of the property,
so that there will be no break in these
quarters to MIR. Moore's programme
If the sale goes and this excellent prop
thus passes into the hands of men OF
capital a. well as experience, a boom
will be inaugurated at the top Of the
range.
Messrs. Paul and McMillen, of La
Crosse, Wisconsin, visited the range
this week and took a look at the Colos.
sal mine in which they are interested
At their last visit the contract was lei
for the tunnel work, and they wished
to see the result of the opening, which
the RANGE is pleased to mention, was
very satisfactory to them. They were SC
~agreeably surprised at the width of the
the ore crevice displayed by the tunnel