The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-20
GENERAL LOCALS.

Water is so short on Poverty creek
that the saw mill can only run a o
tion of the time.
The rainy season is here but the rain
is slow about coming. The days are
warm but the nights are beautiful.
There is an abundance of wild grapes
in the range this year. The full grown
but green fruit is gathered and the
juice thereof made into jelly.
During the late dull times in So
GIRO Greenwald & Go. bought the goods
Of everybody who wished to seek green
pastures. Thus they have acquired a
stock of goods embracing everything
from millinery to banj0s that they sell
for half price. Most of these things
are new. Court street heal the square.
The daily mail line from Engle to
the towns of the Black range was es-
tablished on Monday. A two-seated
blackboard runs opposite the regular
coach. 1t is an appreciated improve
ment to get the mail every evening but
it will take some time to get the people
thoroughly accustomed to it.
The tunnel of the Pelican mine on
the Palomas has been securely timber
ed and four men are hauling out the
ore from the end of the main opening
and placing it on the dump. This ore
is coarse galena and sand e~arbonates
very little of the antim0nal galena ap-
pearing at the depth of the present
working. The galena which is very
cuby surprises everybody with its
value, it having given assay returns of
142 ounces in silver, asingle cube nearly
an inch square assaying ~forty-eight
ounces in silver. The tunnel which
is now over eighty feet long to,
gether with it's side drift one way of
fourteen feet and the other way thirty
feet shows nothing but ore, roof, sides
and floor. There is no better mine IN
the Black range than the Pelican to say
the least of it.
If the owners Of the ella hot springs
had the enterprise of an average Next
can they would put a few days work
upon the place and make of it a hand
some resort. At present the water is
permitted to spread out over the soil
in its course to the stream with which
it unites and titus the whole hill side
upon which the springs are situated Is
simply a quagmire. The springs are
located Oh the east bank of the west
fork of the ella river some two miles
above its junction with the eastern
branch, and distant by trail probably
forty-ive miles from Chloride and the
same distance from Georgetown. The
springs are elevated from twenty to
forty feet above the level Of the ella
and from fifty to one hundred feet dis
tant from it. There are not less than a
dozen openings from which the water
pours in greater or less abundance. AS
before stated the hill side is a mudhole
owing to the water being allowed no
channel to run in. The water is too hot
to permit of the hand being held in ii
more than a second without scaldlng,
and it's curative properties in such dis
eases as rheumatism. neuralgia, etc.
are highly commended. There is nc
wagon road to the place and only
cabin or two and two rude bath houses
for the accommodation of visitors. A
few days work would suffice to make
wagon road TO connect with the north
star road at Cantwell's ranch and a few
others would make the springs models
of beauty. These improvements would
bring dozens of visitors where only
n comes now and would add proper
tionally to the income Of the pro
prletOr.