The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23

the advertisement Of the Mill CON-
pany for bids on the carpenter work
appearing In this issue.
Charley Bishop has been improving
the road TO the Buffom mine for use
when the concentration starts. Other
mine owners Of the range should heed
the example and get to work on their
lines of communication.
Larry Mcdonald who is now at Kings
ton paid Chloride a visit this week.
Since he left here he has invested In
the bull teams connected with the
Kingston saw mill and he contemplates
working them up this way.
G. +. Lyman and A. Hamlin return
ed this week to Iowa. Mr.. Lyman TO
return in four or five weeks with his
family; Mr.. Hamlin returning to his
home in Fayette, Iowa. We may see
his face amongst us again.
Work has been discontinued at the
Colossal and Charley Garfield has NOV
ed his family back to Chloride. The
mine is reported TO be losking as we'll
or better than it ever did before, the
mineral being as plentiful and richer.
j. H. Beeson, Johnny Stitt and Ward
Grissom attended to making final proof
at the Las Cruces land Office this week,
of the last of the old Shaw ranch en-
tries. This place is all patented now
and is a very valuable piece Of proper.
ty for ranching purposes.
There is a secondhand coffin for sale
in Chloride. the one first made for the
unfortunate Rogers proving too smsll
to serve its purpose. Anybody expect
ing to have use for such an article soon
can get a bargain on this. Or, it will
make a nice Christmas present for your
rich mother-in-law if you have enc.
Sam Biggs got back to the range this
week. His strayed horses were found
in the custody of the boys at Ojo Cali.
ente. nearly dead from the hard usage
that somebody had given them. He
gives notice that the next person who
sees his horses running loose will do
him a kindness by leaving them alone.
Cattle IN Texas are getting cheaper,
it appears. Not long ago yearling calves
of the poorest breeds and at the cheap
est place in the land brought eighteen
dollars, but the other day Ben Peers
received information from Texas that
stock of this age could now be pur-
chased for twelve dollars.
Already two ore wagons are being
fitted up ready to commence the work
of bringing down ore from the mines
to the mill. J. Moreland has ordered
two more that will be at Engle next
week. Miners should begin to look
around and engage the teams neces-
sary to regularly haul their ore. 1t
will take many teams to haul forty to
sixty tons of ore per day, besides doing
the frelghting that the increase in
business will necessitate.
! The stone for the c%oncentrat or is be-
ing obtained on Chloride creek just
above town, from the red formation.
1t is exceedingly easily quarried and
the hauling is On a steady down grade
which admits Of large loads. The
rock is to be measured when laid in the
wall and the cording is thus saved. The
stone is not to be laid in the wall under
this contract as might be inferred from
reading the item in last weeks RANGE
concerning the letting of contracts, but
is simply to be measured there.
w. II. Moore has a three months bond
on the King No. 2 mine. and Charley
t Myres and Pete Masia are at work on
: it opening the ledge in new places and
!, sacking ore for shipment. Mr.. Myers
states that he is getting nicer ore than
: was ever taken out before. He has in
one place a crevice of soft black sui
phuretts four or five inches wide. One
: chunk of this filled a sack. The King
5 No. 2 will prove up the mine that ii
was always expected to be if it is but
prospected with judgment.
:, BeInado Chavez OF San Jose has had
t about dozen Mexicans at work during
the past week building a house and
4 digging bitches IN the land on Cuchillo
Negro creek on which he intends to
make final proof next week. He will
then go before the proper officer at So.
s zorro and sustained by four witnesses
will hold up his hand and swear that
e he has resided upon the said land for a
period of six months.
d The recent strike of mineral by S. P
Foster south of Cuchillo Negro town
is quite a bonanza. He has put several
d days work upon it and has taken Out
It quite a pile Of ore much of which
shows considerably better than the
~ sample tested as mentioned last week
r This ore OUTFLOW is all that prospec
tors have as yet been able to find upor
the surface however, but as evidently
the mineral lies in the form of a de
post the body lying underneath ma!
be struck BY sinking any place neaI
him on the hill. Everybody who ha