The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-05

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works are extended.
The Minnehaha and the Great Re-
public are on the same lode and show
strongly mineralized veins. These with
Others are holding off to await the de-
velopment on the Occidental. Mining
cannot be conducted like any other
business, and if the ore should fail en-
tirely in one the others are just as liable
to strike a rich vein In the chimneys
of ore that come to the very surface on
these claims. Both are partially devel-
oped and the showing is sufficient to
warrant a continuance. Assays from
both show gold and silver from one
hundred to three hundred dollars per
ton.
The Goodenough, Ontario, Homestake
and Shorty have shafts of different
depths that show mineral OF paying
character, and the want of capital to
develop into mines is what is needed
to bring them into prominence, or
works that will purchase the ores and
enable owners of claims to carry on
the work.
The MonteZuma and Alaska have
shafts. The former is down ninety
feet and shows some high grade ore.
The latter is down lS0 feet, with drift
thirty feet; in this strata was struck
holding surface water, which compelled
Il suspension of woik until machinery
was put in place to reduce the difficulty.
This is now being accomplished and
work on drift and shaft will be resumed
before the first of January. Assays of
these ores run from $500 to $500 in gold
and silver. These properties are owned
by Chicago parties, and indicate great
promise, as the veins are large, cropping
in places to width of eighteen feet.
The Braxton, Buckeye and Ivanhoe
are situated on the main belt of mineral
and are developed by shafts. The first
is down 100 feet and has twenty inch
streak of mineral, which carries free
gold and black sulphurets and assays
from $500 to $4,000. The second has a
shaft eighty-five feet and another ten
feet deep, showing the same character
of ore with similar assays. The third
has shaft 40 feet deep. When it had
reached a depth of eighty-five feet the
rich sulphurets and free gold were
struck and the tale Of Aladdin was told
to the world. Courers were sent to the
nearest telegraph station to inform the
lucky owners, and then they incorpo-
rated for $5,000,000 and put the stock
on the market. This was disastrous,
as they had not opened the property in
a shape to warrant this capitalization.
Work was continued in the primitive
style, hosting by hand, and tie proper
development retarded thereby, until
the working capital was exhausted,
since which time it has remained idle,
to the detriment of the country, as the
property is a good one. This. with the
two former claims, has a strong miner
allied vein, being true assures between
lime and porphyry. Prof. Silliman, of
Yale, made assays of the ore from the
Ivanhoe lode from 5000 to upwards of
100000 in gold and silver to the ton
Some ore was shipped and worked-the
quantity, the returns and the place
where reduced we have been unable to
learn.
The Apache district joins the Black
Range district on the south running
from Bear creek to the divide between
the waters of the Cuchillo Negro and
Palomas creeks. 1t is about fifteen
miles square. There are not less than
one thousand recorded claims in this
district. The May. Little Pittsburg
Patagonia, Nordhausen No. I, Nash
vile, Royal Arch and Black Hawk have
been opened by shafts or tunnels to
depths ranging from ten to Seventy-fve
feet, and show strong leads of good
mineral.
The Buffum is situated on Dry creek
four miles northwest of Chloride. The
groupings have free gold in quartz
The development is a shaft $50 feet in
depth on four foot vein, the mineral
averaging about thirteen inches from
the surface. Several mill-runs give re-
turns of upwards of 100 ounces pei
ton. The ore is a copper glance with
suphurets and chlorides. There are
about fifty tons on the dump. This is
a strong vein and highly minerallzed
The Ready Relief, Buckeye, Ontario
Centennial Bell, Solid Comfort, Mail
Line, Fast Mail and Daisy are situated
between Dry and Mineral creeks, and
are developed by shafts from fifteen to
sixty feet. All show the slime strong
naturalization of vein matter, the pay
streaks varying from eight inches tc
two and a half feet, with assays from
forty to 300 ounces per ton. The mineral
is copper glance with gray copper and
some showing native silver.
The Sailor Boy, situated near Mineral
creek, has well defined mineral vein
considerable work has been done here
but unfortunately off the vein, with
view to striking the body at greater