The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-28
CHLORIDE

Chas. Bishop is doing two assess
ments on Mineral creek.
Z. J. Fields. of Socorro, anne into the
Range last Friday, by stage.
Garfield and Hastings are working
the assessment on Wall Street No. >.
Ed Wagner is up at the Black Knight.
Will probably spend the New Year
there.
Hubbard, of Fairview. is working
assessments IN the northern part of the
Range.
The Walking John assessment was
finished this week by George Smith and
II. Cate, of Grafton.
Billy Dunn, Ed Leighton and Harry
Berlew came in from the Iron Reef
district Monday evening.
Garfield and Hastings finished the
assessment on the Terrible, last week
Supt. Bently, of the American Flag
mine, left for the east Monday morning.
B,P. Herndon when last heard from
was at PhGnix, ArIzona. He was NOV
ing toward QuijOta district.
In the absence of Superintendent
Bently, James Moody is in charge of
American Flag mine, on the Palemas.
J. II. Drake returned from Kingston
last Monday. He has commenced work
on the Hercules, south of the White
Signal.
Blain and Cameron are doing assess
ment work on the Fast Mail and other
property of the Black Range Co, on
Dry creek.
Polk Armstrong was in town the
early part of the week. working up the
freight question. Go in; competition
is the life of trade.
Richard Ball and Richard GILES. after
getting their wages from the Silver
Monument, bought a five dollar gun
and left Chloride.
Billy Taylor was down from Grafton
this week says the output Of water
from the Alaska mine has made Tur-
key creek q navigable stream.
NJ. II. Koch returned last evening
from the Iron Reef district; says Sam
Fosters claim looks big. and is improv-
ing. Chloride ore abounds.
C. L. K~ingsbury was down from Graf
ton Sunday. Thinks of going into the
iron capped regions, fifty miles north of
here, after the first of January.
The RACINE regrets to report that W.
B. Stevens is probably loser, to tue ex-
tent of several hundred dollars, by the
failure of the Grant County Bank.
Walt Magner, Eds brother, who left
here last summer, is now running as
express messenger from Ogden to Re-
no, on the Central Pacific railway.
Now comes the Colorado reports of
loss of life by 10Y slides, in the min
ing regions. Let the miners OF that
region slide into New Mexico, and be
happy.
Martin Wegmann, the barber, has
greatly improved his barber shop, and
expects to have not less than three
chairs in the spring. He too sees the
boom.
A notice of Christmas festivities
from MIR. Fest, of Cuchillo Negro, came
too late for publication IN u last
issue. We are sorry. Send along items
Fest, at any time. The RANGE will
gladly publish them.
The Grafton people, proverbial fol
hospitality, Billy Taylor informs the
RANGE, will make the dancing party on
New Years eve the most pleasant en-
tertainment ever given at Grafton.
A. Rush Bowe is a smashing good
fellow. He pays as he goes. and goes
as he pays. He now wants a cook to
ix up raw material so it can be eaten
by fifteen men at the Royal Arch mine
Don't forget the meeting tomorrow
night. Fhe BLACK RACINE is conf.
dent that the concentrating prices will
be settled in a satisfactory manner
after which all talk of failure will
cease.
In Editor Beckett's absence we will
tell an open secret, VIZ: He bought
Jim Blain's ranch just below town
paying $500. 1t will be valuable pro.
perty, and we are glad of it. Beckett
deserves a fortune.
The straight from the shoulder let.
ter of Capt. Jack Crawford too late
for this week, and by III next issue the
difficulties of which he speaks will be
removed, and with Bishop McKendree
be will say-"all Is WELL"
A new timetable on the A. T. s. s. T.
railway, went into effectthe Goth. The
New York express passes Engle going
north at 1880 pm; Emigrant, 923 pm
The Arizona express goes south 2.25 "a
M; Emigrant, S.12 p. IN.
Louis Kruse and Bob Norton have