The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-07

UtOIR6 uIucI duu N. IL. OudunOcf-
lin are now the sole owners Of the Mid
night mining property, they having
bought out Judge Holt of Kingston,
and W. B. Stevens, of Georgetown.
Turner and Chamberlin now propose
10 spend considerable time Oh the pro-
perty IN thoroughly prospecting it. and
in getting it ready for systematic de-
velopment, and expect to make it one
of the big producers of the camp.
Gus Holmes. choked off by snow. in
Rio ArrIba county, has gone to White
Oaks to prospect for gold. Ben Reeder
and Louis Schleischer, both left the
same camp, the first named for Howell
Arizona, and The latter is prospecting
for gold about Santa Fe. b. p. Hern-
don, who owns the Antelope. on the Pa
Tomas is in Prescott. Arizona. Dixon,
who was about the Palomas during the
summer. and who for a while run the
Black Knife smelter, is at Flag staff.
Arizona.
Fulton, Traub and Waterman are
pounding away on the tunnel which is
intended to tap the Silver Monument
lead on the northwest extension. The
rock is harder than cast ron and they
have made slow progress so far being
in but little more than twenty feet, but
they hive IN hopes of a change. The
expectation regarding the scheme is
that the rich ore body of the Silver
Monument will be tapped at a good
depth when this tunnel is three hun
dred feet or thereabouts long. and the
owners will put their spare time upon
the work and get there sometime. 1t
is better than idling about, for a fact.
Daniel Mahoney, came down from
Colorado last week and Is making a
short stop here before continuing his
journey to Ell PasO. 1t will be remem-
bered that he is the gentleman whom
the sensational reporter of the Denver
News last June made the subject of an
heroic tale not replete with compli-
ments to this country. the same being
published with comment by the
RANGE. The News afterward ac-
knowledged that the story was its own
and not Mr.. Mahoney's, but the latter
isn't very well pleased about the mat
ter yet. He has some interests here he
is looking after.
O. F. Ober, the baker of Chloride, is
getting up some prize candy packages
for the Christmas trade. Every pack
age will contain a prize and excellent
mixed candies manufactured by him.
self. Ober is a trst-class confectioner
and his candies besides being attract
i've are much more pure and whole
some than the stock carried by the
candy trade generally. He has also re-
ceived a stock of Christmas tree orna-
ments and he proposes to amuse the
children with a Christmas tree wheth-
er anybody else in tine range does or
not. The baker is a man full of enter
prise and if the town ever grows up to
him, it will be a city.
Geo. Richardson met with an acct
dent Monday which although not as
serious as it might have been, was
sufficiently painful. He was at work
getting out stone for the concentration
at the quarry above town, when some
rock doubtless loostened by the blasts,
came tumbling down from a twenty
five foot cliff above him in a bulk of six
or seven hundred pounds. MI. Rich
ardson saw the mass coming directly
upon him and he jumped, but not far
enough to escape it all, for n of the
smaller pieces stl uck him on the crani-
UNI cutting a cash an inch or 80 long
in his scalp and giving him a headache.
The wound was dressed at the drug
store and he went on with his work.
Gus Duval returned Tuesday from
Socorro without waiting for the DIM
lex case against him to be called. His
case was virtually settled by Blum Bros,
winning theirs as they did. Gus was
arrested for stealing, as alleged, goods
from Russell & Co. and selling them 10
Blum from whom they were taken by
the sheriff. Blum sued to recover the
goods and obtained judgment for the
value of them and tw%enty-slx dollars
damages, the court holding that under
the circumstances Duvall had perfect
right to sell the goods. Blum will get
the goods and pay Duvall for them and
by and by collect that twenty-six dol
lars from Dimick. This last will be
the hard job.
One of the most important trans
actions that has taken place in the
range for a long time was the sale
by J. M. Smith of his one-third inter
est in the Dreadnaught, Yankee Boy
and Minnehaha claims to j. q. Wills OF
Albuquerque. Mr.. Smith effected the
sale last Sunday at Grafton and on
Monday morning the parties of both
parts went out to Albuquerque where
the transfer papers will be signed and
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