The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-04-25
LOCAL NEWS.

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house.
The trees and bushes along the water
courses ara DOMINIC their summer
dresses of green. The appearance Is
refreshing.
Charley Garfield returned from Ne
braska wednesday evening. lie left
his wife cougalescing and the baby In
good health.
Ed Magner has gone up 10 the head
Of the range to work assessments on
the Black knight group of mines for
the year 1884.
Nate Ayers is up In Colorado inves'i-
eating the reported gold strike In the
neighbOrhood Of Pixies Peak. lie will
lind it a canard. probably.
]. 7. Thorne. Johnny Hamilton. Don
Cameron and j. NJ. smith are over the
range taxing a look at the ranches on
which the three first named have FL
ings.
The Rio Grande river Is coming up
toward its spring rise and the ferry
boat is now doug service on the Black
range aud Engle road Fares the same
Ms last year.
j. W. McQuistion formerly of Chic
ride, but more recently n business man
Of Percha City and Kingston has failed
and made an assignment for the bene-
III Of his creditors.
Frank Pete and Jim Moreland have
traded teams. Pete had horses and
wanted oxen and Moreland had oxen
aud wanted horses. So they swap.
ped and were satisfied.
The livery firm Of Crawford Bros,
here in Chloride. is dissolved. Austin
retiring. Capt. Blain has charge of the
business and will run 1t until other ar
rangements are effected.
Joe Cadieux, Frenchy) who once had
livery stables in Grafton and Robinson
is back in Canada enjoying the six
thousand dollars which he made from
the lease of anime at Tombstone. A. 4.
Sheriff Simpson and "A clerk visited
the range this week engaged IN the
work of collecting licenses. He made
no effort 10 gather Delinquent taxes
but left that job with an agent at Far.
view.
Thomas Murphy OF Lake Valley and
Frank Boyd of Kingston are aspirants
Ter the Office of sheriff of Sierra county
and are circulating petitions among The
people If their respective localities get
ting the endorsement Of the people.
Miss Georgia Winram an estilnable
young lady we'll known 10 the citizens
Of Chloride having been an early resi-
dent here. has won much praise lately
for her part in presenting the operatta
of Red Riding Hood ut Silver City, her
present residence.
Messrs. Stone. Beebe and Trumbor on
their Walking John No 2 claim have
just opened up Il ten inch streak of fine
sulphuret ore. The claim 10 at present
developed by a thirty-foot cut and II
ten foot shaft, and il was ut the bottom
of the shaft that the last and best ore
strike was.
Somebody set a fire on the Mineral
and Dry creek divide last week which
burned u good deal of grass OH that
range. There is u severe penalty
against this species of vandalism aud
1t will go hard with the chap who may
be caught at the work. Better be care
full you villains.
DR.. Reekie has two men employed in
deepening the shaft of the Blue Dandy
mine. They have just struck a new
character Of ore being a sort of soft
carbonate. which he says is very rich
In silver. AS soon as the concentration
has any empty bins the DR.. will begin
hauling ore down.
G. F. Lyman went east with his fam
lily last Monday. Mr.. l.. will return in
the summer. Mrs. L., was here simply
on u visit, and having finished that has
returned home to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She made numerous friends during her
stay, TO whom her departure was a
source of deep and earnest regret.
Mr.. Reed and family of Grafton yes
terday moved down To HermosI to
keep boarding house tor the American
Flag employees. Ilermosa is on the up
ward grade now and with the popu-
larrity that Mrs. Reed gained IN Graf.
ton as boarding house landlady these
folks ought to do well in their new To-
cation.
The Detwiler brothers who are camp
cd between Engle aud Fort McRea
with their grading outfit have just I'm
ished work on the Mexican Central,
and are now seeking a contract on the
Denver and New Orleans road which
il now building from the south and is