The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
CHLORIDE

Ed Magner has gone up to the Black
Knight properties to do an assessment
work on N of them.
Geo. Turner and J. c. Moody visited
SocorrO this week to draw the purchase
money for the American Flag sale.
John McBrlde has gone to Denver
accompanying the shipment of the Sill.
yer Monument ore made last week.
Tools and provisions have been con.
centrated at the Dreadnaught and
work will be commenced next week.
The Hagan's Peak Tunnel company
Is preparing to let n large contract. In
the meantime work progresses leisure
ly.
Patrick Carm0dy and his associates
who have the agricultural ground on
upper Cuchillo Negro creek located are
advertising their final proof notices
now.
Mr.. Stailey is putting an addition to
his house on Dry creek recently pur.
chased of J. M. Smith, and he will have
1t otherwise improved, and occupied
next week.
Don Cameron and J. T. Thorn0 will
take a surveyor to their claims in the
Elk mountains with a view of having
them surveyed preparatory to making
final proof.
A scheme is on foot and will prob
ably he perfected to have a grand Mas
querade ball in Chloride on Christmas
evening. If it is a 60 the preparations
will begin very soon.
Stone. Trumbor and Bougard visited
the formers mining claims in the
Salado mountains this week for the
purpose of seeing if any of the ranch
locations are taking them In.
l.. T. Yaunt, the first installment OF
the concentration. who upon his arrival
here gave out that he was the superin-
tendent of the works, has turned back
to Kansas to look after his scrap" har-
vest.
The American Flag has filed proof
of publication and all other necessary
papers for a patent, with the register
of the land Office and the owners nov
have as0lid and clear title to the pro-
perty.
C. H. Laidlaw of Fairview is delving
upon a claim of his in the neighbor-
hood of Silver hill in the CuchillO's. pill
ing up ore for treatment by the con-
centrator when it arrives. He has a
large ledge with an ore creyice of some
three feet.
The location of Reber 4 Co., soda
water manufacturers, at SocorrO, whence
they moved from the Black range, does
not, the RANGE regrets to notice, seem
to be a great Improvement. They are
advertising soda at sixty cents a box.
The bar hunters of Hermosa art
making said inroads into the bear pro-
duct of the range. In truth the bears
are suffering in all quarters from the
gun shots of ambitious hunters. Bear
in the Black range will be an unknown
quantity in a very few years.
Messrs G. C. Kelley and ]. Fl. Wheel
or, the former Il speculatOr and the lat
ter a stockman, both of Denver, Colo
RADIO, visited this country since the last
issue of the RANGE, looking for a stock
ranch. They took a look at the west
side and were so we'll pleased that they
expect to come back again o
w. W. Jones has just completed a
map of the Hagan's Peak Tunnel com
pany's property on South Fork for the
benefit of the company and its agents
at Albuquerque. The map is well exc
cuted and shows a very good theory
for the lodges running blind into the
mountain.
Ohel and Eckhardt have sold to the
Kingston butcher. johnson, their drove
of hogs which including the pigs num-
bered about one hundred. They also
sold him the set of fine furniture
which has been a white elephant Oh
their hands for so long, and an open
buggy was also included in the SALE
The goods and stock were all delivered
this week.
The concentration is now known to be
on its way hither from Colorado. MI
Castle found that the only way to get
anything done was to see to it himself
and he is at the front hard at WORK
now He expected to get the machln'
cry transferred to the Santa re track
by the middle of this week, so the out
fit may be expected at Engle in a week
or ten days.
Larry Mcdonald and Oscar Protein
hauer came back from Kingston this
week. They report that Kingston mas
mines with no mistake and it is their
o nviction that the town will be the
largest in southern New Mexico within
a year or two from now. The mineral
an lies in line without the shadow OF
s.ledge, but it is there and that is all
that is necessary. Let her boom.