The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-17
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east of here.
Mr.. Geo. Nutbeen left on Mondays
stage for his home at San Marcial.
Mrs. Geo. Richardson has been very
sick, but is getting all right again.
Miss Alice Anderson and Miss Moore
have been visiting friends in Robinson.
John A. Cloudman is gone to the
Percha country to look after interests
there.
Jim MoOreland has been buying more
bull teams which indicates a profit in
the freight business.
A typographical error in last weeks
issue left Mr.. Reber in a doubtful pO-
sition IN regard to sex.
Mrs. Geo. Adams and daughter of
Grafton, are visiting Mrs. Mayer and
family at the hotel.
Grafton is merging into Fairview,
or at least n would think so from the
representation they make here some
times.
The party of ladies that visited the
ella last week have returned and ex-
press themselves highly pleased with
their trip and the country.
ThOs. II. Dodds has returned bring
ing zoos yearllng Merino sheep from
California to stock his ranch on the
C%aliente. They are by far the finest
band in this part of the country.
Some of the cunning parties that
started north early this week lost "a
cleaner from a Winchester rifle which
they can get at c. H. Laidlaw's office
by paying for this notice.
John Anderson and wife paid Fair
view a short visit Wednesday. The
saw mill having shut down they are
likely to move down and make their
residence ON their ranch west of town.
Hunting parties pass almost every
day for the country north and west of
here. The amount of game captured
does not always recompense the time
and trouble of the hunters. but fun
counts for something, you know.
A small consignment of ladies boots
was shipped via the ella river last
week for the head squaw of the Indian
reservation. The shipment was made
prOmiscuously and the bill discounted
so that Madame squaw will have a
heep big bargain.
The base ball game of last Sunday
was a buse arrangement, it was so one-
sided that it lacked interest. Chloride
must practice and put her best men for
ward if there is any desire to get ever
on the next Sundays game. There is
plenty of good timber in Chloride and
if interest enough can be raised to get
it together we look for a well contested
game.
The Tip Top lode is likely to prove a
bonanza. Eight foot of m~lneralized
quartz at a depth of TWENTY-FIVE feet is
a good showing, and when the quartz
can be burned in a forge till silver glo-
bules appear on the surface and brom-
ide of copper stain appears taking the
place of a grayish matter, the indica-
tons are that the rock contains some
thing.
The Black Knife contract is now ad-
vanced twenty-six feet with a change
that all miners will be glad to hear Of.
The contact is at last found and the
mineral in place. At a depth of .116
from the mouth of the incline the
hanging wall of lime and foot wall of
porphyry are at last well defined and
the mineral a little over two feet wide
in place. The nature is gradually
changing, more iron and more silver
coming in, and the presence of copper
apparently diminishing. No assays
having been made the above is mere
ly a superstition, but is based on the
opinion of men who are well ~acquaint-
ed with the ore. The mineral is not a
mixture of gangue, but the solid truck.
G. NJ Purdy. president and manager
of the Dempster mining company, of
which Major Day is superintendent Wis
tied the range last week and took a look
at his possessions. He was well pleas
ed, not only with the German. the chief
of the group but with the Hancock and
John Henry two others in the same
neighborhood which though but slightly
developed show rich ore in large guam
titles. Mr.. Purdy will report to
his company in Missouri, recommend
ing that there be one hundred feet of
additional shafting put upon each
of the company's properties at once,
and that a whim for hosting be put
upon the German which he wishes to
get opened by shaft and drift as rapidly
as possible that it may furnish business
for a fifty or sixty ton smelter which
he would like to erect at Fairview.