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


Ed. Marsalis went out on yesterday
mornings stage to Engle.
Geo. Richardson is putting up min
ing machinery lei Hillsboro.
Mrs. Reber was an outward bound
passenger on yesterdays stage.
A dog fight occurred in BUNS store
Wednesday which livened things for a
few minutes.
A big dog belonging to BUNS was
poisoned some time between eleven
o'clock Wednesday night and Thurs
day morning. Jake says five dollars
would not be considered too much for
evidence of who did it.
NJ. Weghman's building here is taking
on an assessment in shape of walls be-
fore the rainy seaso commences. The
roof is a question that time will solve
if the rains should not dissolve the
walls in the meantime.
d. II. Wenger and A. Rush Bowe
were among the arrivals on Mondays
stage. Wenger looked quite natural,
but Bowe had on a new hat and a pair
of boots that belonged to that class of
individuals know as dudes.
Thos. H. Dodds returned on Wednes-
days coach from a visit to Socorro.
Mr.. ID. is corresponding with the In
terror department in regard to the
water troubles, and says that if he
can't get the water be requires from
the creek he will get $4,000 worth of
windmllls before giving up the ground.
Major Day reports a strike of ten
inches of very rich ore in the German
in the one hundred and twelve foot
level, specimens of which were shown
us. Our judgment on mineral rock at
sight is very crude and while We do
not feel disposed to place any value on
the ore we are not slow to admit that
it looked extra good.
A herd of sheep has been allowed to
Craze around Fairview on several &C.
casions and the citizens are getting
tired of it. Three leagues or nine miles
is the distance prescribed by law as
the nearest that quadrupeds of that de-
r,nrnin al inn nrn llnvunH fn 0nIrnuRh
and should the offence be repeated the
owners may find out something to their
disadvantage.
Col. Rhodes and August PriZer,
attaches of the Humboldt Mining COM
pany, the latter being the assayor, spent
several days lately in the vicinity of
Edwards camp, in the CuchillOs, ex-
aiming the company's prospects there
with a view of reporting upon the same
and recommending the best plan
to be pursued in the new work which
is soOn to commence. Mesdams Rhodes
and Prizer accompanied their hus-
bands, enjoying the mountain air and
scenery.
Robert Jones (more commonly known
as "Smoky"O and A. j. Maxtield sold
four claims in the Cuchillo's to j. b.
Taylor and VIM. Brockway, Colorado
parties, who are already at work and
intend to do considerable prospecting
to find out whether surface indications
are good to follow. One of the lodes
known as the Chicago is the first point
of operation, the groupings of the lode
are full of red oxide of copper and cop
per glance which assays in the neigh
borhood of forty dollars per ton. There
is quite a likelihood that considerable
work will be done on this claim and
sufficient to prove that the theory from
ed by faint hearts on the pinching out
idea, is nothing more than q plea for
l~aziness. Mineral on the surface OF
the ground is a very sure indication OF
mineral below and during the eruptlVe
period the mineral that was thrown to
the surface came from a like oooy
lower down, but having gone through
teaching, oxidizlng and other processes
and changes of centuries together VIII
the admixture of higher bodies OF for
nation may not prove so remuneratlVe
on the surface, but the idea thai the
whole of the mineral lies on the sur
face as INDUCED in by some 80 called
miners is utterly preposterous. LII
formations like the Cuchillos and the
Black range, we need not expect to fino
large true assure veins, for geology
teaches us that true assures only exist
in the older and more compact ant
stratifed form ations, that vertica
veins exist is an undeniable fact, Du'
the fact of them being vertical and ex
listing with walls of similar formation
(porphyry for instance) does not make
them true assure and the instances
are rare where such a vein has beeI
followed below a contact. Porphyrl
and lime are natural vehicles tor min
eral when found in contact and tn
cooling process and consequent sinking
of the surface after eruption has force(
the mineral from its more liquified con
dition into crevices in both the uppe
and lowwer formations. AS an ex
mn,o +oLo tuo com~paratiyely fla