The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26

IS certain that a iourishing school could
be maintained. Let everybody in town
sign the petition now circulating for a
new schoOld district for this precinct
which it is proposed to send to the
board Of county commissioners for ac-
ton upon at their next meeting and
this will put the ball in motion.
Allen McMillen who visited Engle
last week met Ed Doolittle whom he
reports as being very much incensed
at the BLACK RANGE for the compli-
mentary notice which it gave him last
week ON account of his flight from his
creditors. II Ed considers that the
RANGE has injured him more than he
has injured those whose confidence he
has betrayed and whose subsistence be
has s%quandered the RANGE fails to Isee
his basis of reasoning. Orif the RANGE
has wrOnged him by its statements
that he is acting the part of a dead beat
1t will be than willing to make
ample apology. 1t considers the facts
of the case warranted the article pub
lished however, and new evidence must
be adduced to make it see the wrong.
Ed registered on the coach way bill un-
Ter the assumed name of Beach. He
sneaked out of town to get aboard the
vehicle, and above all he left a good
paying job which would have soon
furnished cash sufficient to square up
in full. Circumstances are decidedly
against honesty liz this case, and Ed de-
serves all the censure that can be given
him.
Richard Mansfield White returned
from SocOrro Monday. He remarks
that while there is no boom at the
county seat, there is a good healthy
feeling and a steady growth. which is
much better. MIR. White took out with
him some nine hundred pounds of Pa
Tomas Chef ore for which the Billings
smelter paid him forty-ive dollars, the
ore having sampled $40 to the ton.
He returns to the mine prepared to
make a shipment at one of n or
two car loads of ore to the smelter.
There is on the dump of the Palomas
Chief at present not less than one hun
dred tons and from this Mr.. White esti-
mates he can sort twenty or twenty
five tons of shipping ore. The expense
of transportation and treatment will
be about half the value of the mineral
but ever this will leave him FIVE hun
dred dollars per car load which will be
much better than having the ore lying
idly upon the dump or to be carried
away by visitors, or stolen by mine
s~alters. There is no danger Of spelling
the Palomas Chief by working either,
for sufficient work has already been
done there to show that the ore body
is a tremendously large one and not
likely to be soon exhausted.
The Socorro Daily Sun Of Tuesday
brings tidings of the decease, OIL the
previous afternoon, of Patrick Dorsey,
one of the foremost citizens of the
county seat. This untlmely stroke of
the grim destroyer is a serious n to
Socorro as well as to the friends and
relatives of the deceased. A leader in
all projects which tended to increase
the growth and prosperity of the city
chosen as his home, liberal with all
that his voice, hands, or purse could
contribute In this direction his place
will be hard to gill. MIR. Dorsey was d
comparatively young man being not
yet thlrty-seven years of age. In the
spring of 1851 in company with Judge
Henson he came to Socorro and assist
ed in establishing the Socorro County
bank. Judge Henson went to his final
rest last year. Who supposed that Mr..
Dorsey would follow him 80 soon. In
all quarters Of Socorro county Pat Dor
sey's name is familiar and the liberal
spirit, honest dealing and pleasant adj
dress which rendered every man his
friend swells the ranks of the mourners
above his remains to a multitude. The
body will be taken to his old home at
Mlllersburg Pa, for interrment. The
cause of his death is not given.
There is a small cloud of rebellion
showing itself in the armament OF
Chloride and a meeting is called to be
held at Judge Holmes office at ten
o'clock Monday morning to take obser'
vatlons on the subject. The burden Of
the complaint has for its foundation
the taxes which Sheriff Simpson as
sessed, on the occasion of his last visit
here, upon the properties of those who
because they had lodged the assessor
were congratulating themselves upon
having escaped contributing their just
proportion of the running expenses Of
their government. The postal cards
received not long since which broke in
upon their fancied security with thu
legend takes Due and Unpaid" wa'
so serious a shock to their nerves thai
recovery Is slow. However, the fact
that taxes are desired is not so muct
the cause of the indignation which
prompts the meeting next Monday al
the slze of the amounts claimed. Tha'
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