The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-29

The shaft of the Silver Monument
mine is something over one hundred
feet below the surface and the air is toe
bad for continuing further work until
a remedy in some form is secured. Air
pipes are being put in this week. When
this is finished work will continue.
Henry Rickert is putting an addition
TO the west side Of his restaurant which
will be fitted up as sleeping rooms for
guests. 1t is an improvement which
has been needed and one which may he
again found useful even if it is not
regarded so just at present.
Mcbride, Burke and partners have
recently discovered a prospect IN the
Palomas which Is said to resemble in
appearance. and rival in the abu dance
and richness of the ore the rem kable
American Flag. Further particulars
next week.
Charley Myers and John Mcbride
have discovered the much sought for
north extension of the Silver Monu-
ment location, and have Fred Bum
baugh is at work sinking a shaft upon
it. They have the contact heavily STAIN
ed with copper and bromide and antici-
pate having a good property when they
get down upon it.
W. NJ. Rogers and j. II. Drake are
working on the Luckey Boy stu
ated in the ueighborhood of the
White Signal. Mr.. Rogers has been at
work for some time and he is now in
thirty feet On tunnel which he is run
ming to cut the ledge. With a seventy
foot tunnel he expects to cut the vein
at eighty feet. There is shaft already
sunk on the property which shows nice
mineral and the tunnel will probably
make an improvement still.
Work has been suspended on the
Amajicano, at HermOsa, until after
the rainy season owing to foul air in
the crosscut which the workmen have
been unable to prevent by the usual
air pipes. The ore of the new strike
shown the BLACK RAGE reporter last
week and estimated to run $3.50 sur
prised everybody by assaying $5S2. The
body of mineral. from which this
specimen was taken was cut into sever
al feet but was not run through and
therefore its extent is unknown. Pre-
vious assays of the ore of the Amaji-
cano did not run over $3.50 but the
ledge which has heretofore been broken
up badly has become solid where this
last discovery was made which salts
factorily accounts for the increased
value of the ore.
Henry Westerman mourns the loss
of his mule. which gave up the ghost
last week. Fred Bumbaugh had the
animal up at the head OF the range
near the Silver Monument mine. He
had him staked out to Craze and the
mule getting tangled in his rope was
thrown down among the rocks and
could not get up alone, wen when
Fred who discovered him in this stu
alton, had cut the lariat. So fast did
the boulders hold the mule that
Fred unassisted could not get him up
so he ran to the Silver Monument camp
for assistance. Before he got back the
animal IN his struggles had dashed his
brains out upon the stones and had ex'
pired. Henry valued the animal at
two hundred dollars and the loss is
therefore a serious one.
Messrs. Taylor and Brockway, gen.
tlemen from Colorado, have purchased
of Smokey Jones and A. j. Maxfeld
several claims on Silver Hill, a point
in the Cuchillo Negro mountains just
, south of the Fairview trail to Edwards
camp, and have began work upon one
of them, the Chicago. These gentle.
men are experienced miners and so dc
not expect to find a bonanza on the
surface. They have a large ledge here
which is we'll mineralized throughout
upon the surface and they think thai
the prospect warrants sinking. They
propose to sink at least three hundred
feet and will do it if the ledge gives the
encouragement which they expect. II
has become generally recognized by al
who have prospected north of the stage
road in the Cuchillos that the mines liz
deep IN those quarters Notwithstanding
that the surface indications are all thai
could be desired.
The RANGE has been informed thai
an article written from Robinson was
. lately published in the New Mexican
Review, which denounced the Hagan's
Peak tunnel as a snare and a delusioI
and a worthless property. The copy
Of the paper containing the letter wa.
not received at this Office, and hence th,
exact language used in the communi
!. cation is not known to the writer here
of, but among those who did see tn,
article and who are also acquaintet
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