The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-16
CHLORIDE.

w ia OONOAAN iCAi 01Ou-
day.
The customary 10th of November
storm didn't arrive this year.
Fresh Oysters on hand and for sale
at the Chloride hotel restaurant.
The drug store has some very fine
apples for sale at fifteen cents per
pound.
Henry Schmidt is giving good salts
faction as an assayer land getting con-
siderable work.
More machinery for the mill just ar.
rived and placed on the mill site. 1t
looks like business.
Arthur Hamlin, of Cedar Rapids, la.
came out with Mr.. Lyman and is TAX
ing a look at the Black Range country.
NJ. H. Koch has finished the winter
buildings for j. p. Armstrong at Viii
low Spring and is back to business at
Chloride.
The pumps are now being rugged and
sinking the mill well proceeds rapidly.
"A slight rise lnthe water IN the well
has been noted.
The machinery for the concentration
is coming in as fast as the teams can
haul it and it will probably be here by
the close of the week.
10. Wills arrived in Grafton from
Albuquerque. the other evening to see
about doing the assessment work or
his Captain Pat mining claim.
The concentration we'll is crlbbed up
in good shape and a pump is being rig
ged up for the handling of the water. In
Il few days sinking Oh it will be resum-
ed.
The concentration has already begun
to make a little stir in Chloride and
from this cause or some other unknown
the town is enjoying the presence of a
considerable number of strangers.
Parker Fletcher from Winchester, N.
Y. man Of experience among the gold
lead and placer mines of California, is
looking about the range for something
which shall offer him sufficient induce
ment for remaining.
The BLACK RANGE picked up itself
and moved this week m square nearer
the business of the town. Its new
quarters are directly opposite the pub
lie well. 1t a a light roomy Office
now and the change is very gratifying.
John &. Turn bull of Stark county,
Illinois, travelling in the west for his
health is visiting the range and will
probably remain all winter. Asthma
is his ailment and lie thinks this eli
mate very beneficial to him.
Miss Annie Moore, who has been
with her sister Mrs. Cantwell on the
ranch on the west side of the range,
since Mrs. c. arrived there in July, has
returned home to Bolton, Missouri, and
left an universal regret at her depart
ure.
A wedding occurred at Cuchillo Ne
gro town on Monday, the contracting
parties being E. Torres and Pubertia
Montoya both of Las Palomas. The
affair was celebrated by a grand bailie
the next evening at the public hall in
Palomas and the good time was general.
Another shipment of Silver Monu-
ment ore and the one which is expected
to square up existing accounts against
the property is being taken to Engle.
This mine in thus paying out so easily
for its e%xtravagant management has
proved itself to be more than an ordin-
airy property.
Louis Schleischer and Ben Reeder
write from Rio Arriba county to friends
in Chloride. There is plenty of snow
up there and some good prospects for
mineral, but the land grants cover the
country. Gus Holmes Is there also and
has a claim showing good mineral but
thinks it is on a grant.
Are the roads from the mines down
to the mill being put in shape? Frost
will not stay away and is an ugly GUS
toner to deal with when it fastens
itself in the mother slopes. If you can-
not make the whole of your roads, make
the part On the northern slopes before
frost makes it ten times more difficult.
Get your roads done in time.
Contracts for the work for the con-
centrator we're let as follows: Hauling
lumber, j. D. Perkins, of Robinson, at
$685. per NJ. Furnishing wood, Cajacob
and Alexander of Robinson, $2.75 per
cord. Quarrying and delivering rock,
Geo. Richardson of Fairview, at $500
per cord in the wall. Furnishing sand
E. G. Silver of Fairview at $1.2O per
cubic yard.
Kean St. Charles and his partners
still occupy Ojo Calieute post unmolest-
ed and are sanguine that they will con-
tinue to do SO, claiming to have good
legal talent supporting. The RANGE
hopes they are correct though it still
doubts it. Kean Is preparing to raise