The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-30
GRAFTON

Mrs. Mary Yaple has moved back to
Fsirview to reside during the winter.
Cranberrles, celery, oysters and Ash
for sale at the Chloride hotel restau-
rant.
These November days cannot be ex-
celled by those of any land on the face
Of the earth.
Bowe says he didn't bet that the
Klngsbury horse could run but simply
wagered that Rogers horse couldn't
and he won the money on this hypothe-
sis.
Thomas Scales is rushing about get
ting the castings and other necessary
materials for the construction of his
pumps. He is very sanguine of MAX
ing the invention work successful.
A Rush Bowe has purchased himself
a type writer. A wound in his right
arm which he received while fighting
Indians was troubling him to the ex-
tent of interfering with his handling of
a pen, and he finds this a most handy
and agreeable substitute,
1t is said that Colonel Gillette the old
superintendent of the Ivanhoe mine
and later of Lake Valley, took the
cash made in the mines and tried to
bull Wall street, with the usual result.
1t is safe to say that he will be back in
the mines again before long.
The dance at Robinson last evening,
gotten up by the Grafton boys vas as
full of enjoyment as could be wished.
The attendance wa not large, but the
eutire company eXerted themselves to
give pleasure to the evening with evil
dent success.
The work which is now being done
on the North Star mine is greatly i'm
proving the property the showing of
mineral being greatly bettered thereby.
Governor Foster writes that it is more
than probable that he will have fifty or
hundred feet of work done upon the
property before he stops.
CAPT. A. Talbot. one of the gentle
men interested in the Ivanhoe ranches
visited Grafton during the week past.
He was taking a look at the properties
with the intention of putting stock
upon them at once. Mr. Talbot is a
Boston man and a sea captain having
but just returned from a voyage ere
taking this trip. While at Engle on his
way out last Saturday he attempted to
bag some game with a gun that he pos
sessed and the recoil of the weapon frac-
tured his collar bone. Nothing caring,
however for a tritling wound like that
the captain continued his journey and
jammed about the country north Of
Grafton until Wednesday before he
returned to Socorro where perhaps he
will have the wound attended to.
There was a horse race at Robinson
Tuesday afternoon as some of the
readers of the RANGE may be aware.
The distance was for four hundred
yards, the stakes one hundred dollars
a side. and the horses competing were
the sorrel horse of G. H. Kingsbury, of
Grafton, and the pony of Charley Rog-
er's. A. Rush Bowe backed the Kings
bury horse and Rogers put up his own
money Oh his nag. There was but lit
tie outside betting because the sorrel
had no friends, the confidence of the
spectators centering entirely in the
black, two to one being freely off
cred in the latter's favor with no
takers. All SAID that Bowe evidently
had money to throw at the birds while
they did not. Time was called on the
race at two o'clock sharp, and the
horses came to the mark. The s0rrel
took the lead from the start and kept
it throughout the race continually
throwing dirt in the blacks eyes and
the decision of the judges gave him the
race by nine feet. After this it was
evident to every body that Kingsbury's
horse was the best runner but it was
too late to make bets then, and a good
many boys kicked themselves Speak
ing 6guratively) because their foresight
was so inferior to their bindsight.