The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-16

Work on the Adams Bar placer mine
at the mouth Of Chloride creek con-
tinues with very encouraging results.
The bedrock is not yet reached but the
wash grows cOarser and the tests with
the pan show an increasing quantity
of gold IN the gravel. Other bars in the
vicinity are being prospected also and
a boom may be expected to originate in
that locality at any time.
Sunday afternoon the little ones and
some of the larger ones met at DR..
Blinn's at 2 p. m, and spent a pleasant
hour in a Sunday school. A bible-"lass
has been organized under Mr.. Castle as
teacher and all are welcome to fill up
the class and take part in the discuss
ions of the lessons. Ifyou cannot come
yourself, send your little mes and Chic
ride will have the benefit of a perma-
nent Sunday school.
The Las Cruces Republican brings
the information that Mr.. and Mrs.
Lamption have arrived IN its town to
reside during the winter. hampton
and Biggs will have a contract of forty
five townships east to s~ectiOnize and
this work will employ them for some
time. The people of Las Cruces will
find MI. hampton and his agreeable
and handsome wife most valuable ac-
QUESTIONS to their social circle.
Eugene Knapp has dug fifteen feet
in a straight shaft on his recent dis
covery the Columbia, located lear the
Silver Monument mine and ne has two
feet of ore in tale that makes a fine
showing. One streak of this ore re-
sembles the peacock mineral taken
from the Silver Monument near the
surface and another has the appear
ance of the Mountain King. The
RANGE is convinced that Knapp has a
bonanza here which only needs work
TO make ltSelT visible.
There has been some speculation as
to whether the concentration will buy
the ores of the miners. From an init
nation dropped by the manager, MINI
ers can rest assured that advances will
be made on their concentrates sufficient
to enable them to go on getting out
more ore. When once full mill runs of
the different ores have been made, and
the values known, we doubt not the
concentration will purchase the con-
centrates direct.
d. B. Lewis assisted by E. Payne, is
sinking ON the Mammoth claim up
Chloride creek and getting some excel
lent mineral. The ore which is galena
occupies more than the width of the
shaft and consequently quite Il dump of
it is accumulating as Il result Of the
work. Mr.. Lewis has been down in
Grant county for some time and he ex-
hibits some nice looking mineral
which be took from IA prospect discov-
cred by himself on Bear mountain,
near Silver City.
Sam Biggs passed through this place
yesterday enroute from neal the Ari-
zon line northwest of here to San
Marcial. He is interested in stock
ranches there and he says that country
is the finest for cattle range that he
ever looked at, and Sam has been
around considerably. While out, and
some eighty miles from Chloride both
Of his horses strayed away from him
and he has not found them as yet. He
will be back next week to meet Jerry
Otto whom he expects to finish his sur
Veying contract about that time.
Richard Mansfield White has receiv-
ed three hundred ore sacks and he will
proceed at once to sort and ship the
mineral of the Palomas Chief. Mr..
White has the dea that the value of
the ore in his pocket is just as good as
the mineral wasting upon the dump
and that men at work upon mineral in
sight in the mine and mill returns in
hand make just as satisfactory a show
Ing to pratical mining men as idle
shaft and drift and a dump of weather
beaten ore. This opinion appears to
be good, too.
Patrick Carmody with Rernado
Chavez and other Mexican citizens of
the Cuchillo Negro creek are paying
a visit to their properties. Mr.. Car
mOdy informed the RANGE that since
he moved his family out to San Mar
cial the last time that one of his chill
dren has died and two are still very sick
with fever. He states also that after
the term of court at Socorro next week
he will move out to the Stone ranch to
stay. He seems quite sanguine that
nothing will come of his indictment for
murder to which charge he must an
swer at this coming term of court, and
that he will get clear.
The Chloride school is now a reality
and Miss Alice Barnes is training the
young ideas to spout. The school starts
off with twelve scholars an afternoon