The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
GRAFTON.


assessment work on the Great South
west for the Kingsbury Bros.
The boys from the Iyanhoe ranches
went down to the land Office at Las
Cruces the first Of the week to make
their final proofs.
Three eight hour shifts are driving
the Alaska drift at the rate of two feet
per day. The rock is softer than it was
but it is harder than dirt yet.
Business is reported to be excellent
at Grafton this season. The miners
are all at work and consequently have
money. And having money they spend
it freely.
The new pump for the Royal Arch
mine was shipped from Denver on the
l4th inst and it will probably be in place
and throwing water before the next
issue of the RANGE.
Kean st. Charles gives the informa-
ton that his two brothers late of the
range are now in Washington territory
and doing we'll. George Albright one
of Grafton's Ascending deadbeats, is
there also.
Judge Adams has stated that he will
be very likely to send some of the
Montezuma ore to the concentration If
the mill works satisfactorily. There is
a good deal of this ore and as 1t crops
high upon the surface is very easily
mined.
w. II. Berry A. P. Dyer and W. W.
Robbins had ten dollars worth of ticket
in the last drawing of the Louisiana
state lottery and won a hundred do.
lars. They have twenty dollars inter-
est in the drawing Tor the present
month. The lottery will soon have its
money back.
Billy Kellem has quit the restaurant
at the Royal Arch and Mr.. Bowe will
run this department himself hereafter
with Chinaman Lew in the kitchen
and A. p. Dyer in the office. THIS ar
rangement, it is hoped will be more
satisfactory to all parties.
VIM. Murphy and w. w. Robbins are
working on the Coliseum hear Grafton,
a claim belonging to Murphy. They
have two nice walls and a ledge mat
ter which is the incest pick-sharpenlng
material that has yet come to light in
the range. They talk of putting it up
in small packages for use IN private
blacksmithing.
The North Star Nos. / and 2 belong
to Governor Foster are having assess
ment work done upon them under the
supervision of A. Rush Bowe. The
work ON number two is finished and a
nice crevice of m%ineralized quartz is
shown up thereby. This is the third
assessment on number one and the
second on number two.
Thomas Maloney is working the Nc
Kay ct al properties on South Fork this
year He has finished on the Morgan
where he sunk a shaft to the water al
both ends Of the tunnel and he has now
begun a drift at the bottom of the
shaft on the Henry Clay. w. E. Tay'
lor will help him on this.
Hill and Robinson on their ranch on
Corduroy canyon last spring planted
ninety pounds of potatoes on the sod
and they dug from this patch this fall
eight hundred pounds. This was done
without irrigation and with very little
cultivation. This experiment gives
their ranch an increased value in theiI
minds. Next season they will 60 into
the potato business heavily.
Thomas Scales has made a contract
with Nr. Chase Of the ella cattle com
pany to put pumps into their springs
and wells to be dug. Mr.. Scales has
an invention of his own for raising
water from shallow wells which hi
claims will be much cheaper than wine
mills. Mr.. Scales perfected his inven
ton in Nebraska before coming to thi'
territory but had never had an oppor
unity to spread himself on it until thit
time. His opportunities now,however
are unlimited, for if his arrangement
works satisfactorily MI. Chase will EN-
ploy him on a salary by the year ant
have q thousand or 80 of them built.