The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-11
LOCAL NEWS.

i. ID. Gray has purchased Charley
Canfeld's residence.
Fresh, extra select oysters rs cents a
a at the Chloride hotel restaurant.
J.. M. Smith and Geo. Turner are visit
ing Kingston. win be back next week.
A. H. Norton is doing assessment
work on the Orwig mine for Henry
Riekert.
Jacob DUNES has moved into the
building of Austin CrawfOrd's lately
occupied by Won Wendt.
Major Beebe is in the San Andres
mountains prospecting some iron-cap-
ped lodges for a second Equator mine.
Richard Mansfield White is sacking
two car loads of Palomas Chief ore
and will send them off to Socorro next
week.
Miss Martha Graves of Bismarck,
st. Francois county. Missouri, arrived
in the range this week. She comes as a
nurse for Mrs. Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Garfield departed
Wednesday morning for Grand Island,
Nebraska, the home of her parents. He
will return in Il couple of weeks but
her visit will be indefinite in its length.
Frederick Blake. or Boston, arrived
in the range with a view of embarking
in business if suited with the situation
and prospects. He is a friend of MI
Fletcher and came through his infu-
ence.
d. S. Miller will shortly 60 to Ell
PasO for the purpose Of making i'm
provements upon the property which
he recently purchased there. Mrs. Mil
Ter will remain in Grafton.
Henry Rlckert was having work done
upon the Underwood mine on South
Fork but concluded that the showing
was not sufficient to justify continuing
and so stopped it and abandoned the
property.
Mr.. Beardsley has had a mining lOca-
tion surveyed on the ground tapped by
his tunnel near town and is quite jolly
over the prospect which be has dis
covered by the opening. There was Il
method in the gentleman's operations
which all could not see.
The country is in danger when Mex
lean sheep herders steal the pack from
the back of a burro travelling along a
a trail, yet it 10 supposed that this is
the fate of an outfit lost on Cuchillo
Negro creek below the Stone ranch last
Sunday, and not yet discovered.
About a mile and a half south of the
Equator nine in the Iron Reef district,
Eugene Knapp discovered a bold out.
crop of galena ore. Major Day and z.
G. Silver are 10Y there assisting him
in prospecting his discovery.
John Andrews is this week engaged
in fixing up the Monte Christie build
ings preparatory to opening a restaur-
ant and hotel. One of the buildings
will be used for a restaurant and the
other will contain sleeping apartments.
The insanity of Allan Mcmillan
which was brought on some time ago
by reason of his illness continues with
out Improvement and it is thought that
if his bodily affection is cured he will
have to 60 to an ASYLUM for the treat
ment of his mind.
Messrs. Brooks and Hopewell now of
Palomas, are negotiating for property
at Cuchillo Negro, desiring to move
their headquarters to that place as be-
ing on tire line of the Black Range mail
line and more convenient in all re-
spects for their business.
The father of the late Billy Rogers
writes to Charley Garfield that the un-
dertaker at San Francisco, who receiy-
ed the corpse of his son stated that it
was the best preserved body that he
ever received from such distance.
Brad Williams. superintendent of the
Ivanhoe mine, went east this week to
confer with the new owner Of the pro-
perty as to the best policy to pursue re-
garding it. The people of Grafton live
in hopes that some work will be done
upon it now and its present evil reputa-
ton contradicted.
Jim Blain is building, or is about to
build a wagon, road to the shaft of the
Apache mine preparatory to working
this property for all it is worth to as
sist in feeding the concentration. Mr.,
Blain thinks that the Apache and Old
Vic together will furnish five tons of
ore per day from the start.
The work in contemplation In the
mines of the range will furnish en-
ployment to twice the number of min
ers now here, and already there is no.
ticable a scarcity of experienced min.
,ers. First class miners will find this a
good country to emigrate 10.
Charles Bishop relocated the Walk
ing John claim on Mineral creek On the
lst.. claiming that the work done on it
last year was net sufficient to consti-
tute an assessment. This is one of the
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