The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07
CHLORIDE.

seat Ou DuSlneSS.
j.. c. Shaw departs for his home in
New York in the morning.
Joe Bushby has purchased Alex Won
Wendt's horse and gig and he now rides
be chaizes.
De. j. Fields has been employed by the
Billing smelter of Socorro, as purchas-
ing agent.
Charlie CanGeld's family has moved
over to the Colossal mine to keep him
company.
The new contract on the Colossal en-
plOys two shifts. There is very bad air
in the end of the tunnel.
The bond which the RANGE mention
ed as having been given on the Silver
Monument to H. W. Moore, expired on
the fifth without action.
Robt Mcbride and Oscar Pfotenhauer
began assessment work on the Black
Bear and another of KIngsbury Bros.
claims on Chloride creek this week.
Rod Cassil departed yesterday morn
ing for his old home, Carthage, Mis-
souri,. Rod has been absent in the
wilds for three years and he thinks
himself entitled to a back trip.
Mrs. Jas. Dalglish went to Hermosa
to keep her worse half company this
week, and H. E. Rlckert and wife &C
c0mpanied her for a season of recrea-
ton.
A grape wagon from Canada de Ala
mosa visited Chloride last Sunday and
brought out the citizens like buzzards
to a carcass. The first taste of any
thing like fruit IN this town this season
was appreciated. The grapes went off
at fifteen cents per pound, weight esti-
mated.
The Chloride base ballists ale as full
of spunk and loose change as the Fair
view boys are full of prudence. But
the latter having inaugurated the noble
game in the range and held the winning
hand in the play would be using their
opponents fairest by giving them all
they wanted of it. The wise man, how
ever quits the game while he is ahead.
A. j. Maxfeld added to the RANGE
cabinet this week the finest piece OF
ore which eve come from Silver Hill
In the Cuchillos. 1t was taken from
the JOINT shaft of the Tip Top and
Johnnie claims which he is sinking in
conjunction with Taylsr and Brock
way. 1t Is heavily impregnated with
copper and Is very handsome to look at,
A straight shaft thirty-fve feet deep
on the ledge which has quite a dip has
already determined the ore crevice to
be fifteen feet wide. The owners are
all much pleased with the prospect.
H. S. Sherrard wishes the RANGE to
correct the item which occurred in the
Fairview news last week to the fleet
that his contract on the Humboldt
tunnel in the Cuchillos, called simply
for eight dollars a foot. That is the
sum named in the bond but several side
agreements such as being furnished
tools. powder, etc., make the job much
better paying than the eight dollar
figure would indicate. Of course it is nc
body's business but his own and Col
Branson's if Mr.. S. took the contract
for a dollar per foot but the RANGE
makes this statement to please him
and to have the truth. The RANGE
editor would rather be given five dol
lars than a lie to publish. Mr.. Sherrard
and Ii hand last week completed
eighteen and a half feet Of his contract
which does not make the job so bad ;
one even at the figure stated first.
The same yellow dog which last
!, spring saved the life of D. G. Cantwel
/. when a bear was about to embrace him
: did equal service for his master Benn,
Williams, last week on the Palomas
> when a mountain lion calculated tt
> wreak vengeance upon him. He approa
| ched within about fifty feet of the liol
| and had put a bullet through him wher
= the animal came for him. The dog seeing
the movement tackled the vramit ant
, kept his attention until his master ha'
q put enough lead into the beast to com
! mand silence. 1t took two bullet
. through the body behind the shoulde
and one through another vital part t.
n accomplish this and Benny thinks tina
I he would have been bleaching bone
. now but for his four footed comradt
This is one dog that pays his keeping.
Eugene Knapp has made a new dis
t covery about a quarter of a mile soutl
of the Silver Monument mine. 1t Cal
e ries much the same character of or
r as its illustrious neighbor but the siz
Q of the ore crevice has not yet been de
termined. Eugene has made two locs
Y lions on the lead discovered and name
s them the Columbus and Humboldt. o
D the former he shows ore in FIVE place
s and on the latter in three places and b
s has not prospected them at all CAREFUL
Q either. The chief recommendation
d these claims is the value Of the or
y From rock taken from the Columbu
three assays have been made. one frol