The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-22

NAN0 III thoe fASAhAef anu fht1 WI INV
that whether or not they have found
the object of their search they are am
ply repaid for their labors. The ASSAYS
do not run high so far as tested but the
remarkable extent of the body makes
its thorough acquaintance a big job.
1t S little bit singular to see the per-
sistency with which some old proSpec-
tors hang on to their conceptions of the
law with reference to mining locations.
For example, there are those who in
sist that on a claim located on the first
day of January 1884, the assessment
must be worked by January first 1855.
whereas if the same claim should have
been located January End 1884, that the
time for working the assessment
would extend until January first 1886.
In December last we called attention
to this fallacy and cited the law. We
now hear that some claims located
January first 1888 have been relocated
because the assessment work was not
done before January first 1884. Such
relocation cannot hold and the relOca-
tors are treSpassing, and under the ter
%ritorial laws. are subject to criminal
prosecution. All such had better take
their notices down.
Capt" Jinks late driver for the
Southwestern Stage company on the
Engle and Black Range route, has quit
the job and gone to Las Cruces. Jinks
was a good driver and we hate to lose
him. He made late starts and early
arrivals, but he couldn't stay longer in
safety to his person, and hence his de-
parture. A suspIcioned familiarity be-
tween Jlnks and a Mexican woman, at
Cuchillo town,got an jealousy enraged
husband and his deadly shotgun upon
his trail and links concluded that'"dls-
erection is the better part of valor." At
least, this is the story that the BLACK
RANGE hears in explanation of his de-
parture. Certain it is that the driver
who took Jink's place encountered a
wrathy native with a deadly weapon
when he entered Cuchillo Negro and
only escaped with his head intact
by the intervention of a companion
who explained that the new man was
not Jinks. Mexican wives it seems are
more dangerous than "vidders."
Capt. Geo. A. Purdy and G. N. Ben
nett, of Pierce City, Mo-, and II. d.
Brown, of Springfield. Missouri, three
of the owners of the German mine in
the CuchillO's, visited the property this
week for the purpose of taking a look
at it and deciding upon the course of OPP
GRAFTON to pursue regarding the future
working. These gentlemen are like
wise interested in the Morning Star the
Cabinet and Reward mines in the So
zorro mountains where they have done
a large amount of development work
and although they think well of then
property there, they have greater expec'
tations from the German. Major Day
the superintendent, will resume work
on the German at once. The shaft i:
already one hundred and slxty-ive feet
deep and a whim will be erected fol
hosting purposes. No sign of water
has yet been seen, but good ore is con
tinuous from top to bottom and a nice
dumpof the same is piled upon the sur
face. 1t is thought that the ore vii
concentrate with success and a tesI
trial on ten tons will be made at Chic
ride as soon as the machinery starts.
Funer al services were held over thu
body of Miss Georgiana Jones last Sun
day. H. N. Castle officiating. On Mon
day evening the mother arrived ant
Tuesday Sam Andrews took the corpse
and Borrowing parent to Engle for tn
return trip to their bereaved home il
st. Francois county, Missouri. Mrs
Jones, the mother, fearing the worst
started for Chloride when the frs
warning dispatch reached her las
week. She came by the southern rout'
and being delayed twenty-four hours il
Ell Paso reached Engle in season to re
main there over Sunday and to hav
J her stage ride out from there on n 0
} the most disagreeable days for weathe
that there has been this season. Th
wearied lady needed rest but the lon.
time that the corpse had already bee
kept with little preparation prompte'
her to start back without delay. Mr..
Jones had already lost one daughter b
the same dlsease-consumption-an
she had little or no hope of this one
recovery when she left home, cons,
Quently she was as well prepared t
learn of Georgia's decease as mother
ever are for such unwelcome tiding
She was we'll satisfied that the invall
had received all the care and kind a
t%eution possible and that her last day
had been rendered as comfortable b
her nurses here as she herself coul
. have made them. She will arrive HON
Saturday night and on Sunday prol
ably, the body will be committed to th
dust.
' Parker Fletcher went home to "Bos'