The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-08
GENERAL LOCALS.

A spring nea Hermosa is a reposi-
tory of petriied mess which is rare and
pretty.
j. W. Nash a merchant lately of
Grafton, has returned to GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin.
Hill and Robinson are fencing their
clover patches which occupy about one
hundred and sixty acres in Corduroy
canyon.
Frank p. Rowe, Alex. Rogers chief
clerk at Engle, made the stage compa-
nyis monthly settlements at this end of
the route, this week.
This is the month that tries the wells
of this country. Where water does not
tail this month there will always be
plenty.
John F. Bowling, one of the earliest
p~rospectOrs here in the range is nov
at Zacatecas, Mexico, about fifty miles
beyond the end of the Mexican Central
railroad. Mark Edwards is there also.
A given amount of heat is always
much more oppressive on the first warm
spring days than it is later in the season.
because the blood is not thinned down
to summer consistency. These days
which now seem so oppressive would
be delightful in August.
The Amajacano at Hermosa is both
cred with foul air and work is at TEN
orary standstill. The shaft is fifty feel
deep and a cross-cut Is being run to
ward the east wall. Last Friday a
handsome crevice of horn and native
silver was struck in the crOsscut but
not much work has been done since fol-
the causes stated.
The Kingston Tribune has issued a
pamphlet describing the Perch cOun.
try and its mineral claims with the re.
sources and advantages of that region
Tie work is irst-class in all particulars
and it cannot fail to be valuable as ar
encourager and promoter of emigra.
ton to the region whose praises il
sings. This end Of the range would
like to see Kingston and the Percha
flourish like a green bay tree.
The time has arrived when tile gov
ernment post of OjO Caliente is to be
SOLD. When Andrew Kelley was out
TO the road lately. he was appointed al
appraiser 10 fix the value Of the prop
erty. The post comprises five sections
of ground on which are situated a mum.
Der of large buildings and the large
and numerous Caliente springs. THESE
springs ar equal to any in the land ant
are of great valueto anybody who wish
es stock ranch.
The news reached Grafton by the last
mail that the young woman who used
to do an illicit business at Chloride and
later at Grafton, under the cOgnOmer
of LottIe Brooks, had committed sui
eide at Lordsburg. She attempted the
feat during her s%ojourn at Grafton but
failed. This time she appears to have
better success. There is an opportunity
furnished by this circumstance for al
instructive sermon, but with 80 many
preachers IN the world the RANGE viii
not undertake the job.
Geo. II. Utter of Santa Fe, chie1
owner of the Norhausen mine on BFal
creek, came to the range last Frida!
and settled up all the outstanding in
d%ebtedness of that property. He lla'
interested other men with him in thi'
valuable mine and it is likely that err
long work be resumed upon it. Whel
1t does start it will be an such shap'
that the claim will be thorough.
proved ere any let up will be made
That it will make a good mine is no
doubted.
Explorers in the largest of the cave
upon the surface ground of the Ameri
can Flag claim at HermOsa, have foun'
within the cavern several pieces of An
cient pottery. A short time ago
more adventurous crowd crawling OF
through an extremely narrow passag
which leads north from the floor of th
main room, discovered other recesse
where were several pieces of the ware
Mrs. II. E. Berlew is the possessor O
these finds at present. The only theor
that can be advanced for the depos
lions of relics here is that these cavern
were In ancient days the habitations G
the race of Indians who then occupie
the land. The country almost dali
furnishes new food for study for .thos
who love to delve among the mysterie
of antiquity.