The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-29
EDITORIAL IDEAS.

FRANK James has been taken Il
Huntsville, Alabama, to answer to hi'
crimes there. If he succeeds in getting
clear there, Minnesota will take a turl
at him.
The Lake Valley branch is almOs
finished. Trains are expected to b,
running in few days. Upon the com
pletion of this branch, the whole fore,
now at work there will be shifted t.
Socorro and there set at work on tn,
Magdalena branch.
The A. I. &S. Fe will take posses
sion of its new purchase, the Deming
Silver City & Pacific narrow gauge, OF
March 1st. The gauge will not he chang
ed to standard width, but instead til,
line will be extended to Georgetown
and other rich mining, camps and th'
A. T. & s. F, will establish small
narrow gauge mountain division of it.
own.
1t costs some money to bury deaC
congressman. The New York Sun pub
fishes tabulated list of the items O
expense attending the funeral of thre,
members of congress last year, an(
they truly present an interesting study
The funeral of Hon. J. w. Shackleford
of South Carolina, cost $2.473. In til,
bill presented by the undertakers anC
others, occur such items as this
Lunches and porter hire. $S2; one anC
a half dozen white kids, $34 20; elgh
and half dozenblack kids,$75 20. Then
the casket cost $425; and there art
other lnnches, etc. The expense Of
transporting the remains to Richland
N. c., was nearly $1,000. The funera
of Hon. r. NJ. G.. Hawk, of Illinois, en-
tailed an expenditure of $2,y3l. There
are charged $445O for kid gloves, $72.0C
for carriages, 5000 for one bambazint
door Grape, $4,000 for mineral waters
$10O for a dozen goblets; twenty-foul
silk sashes $24O. and sundrY expenses
$53.25. The coffin in this instance cost
S425. For the funeral of the Hon. G.
s. Orth, of Indiana, $2,O75 were expend
ed. 1t certainly pays to be an under
taker in Washington.
The Leadville Democrat says: "We
are permitted to state, upon the au-
thority of one of the executive officers
of the Rio Grande railway. that the
baby road will be extended, during the
coming summer, from Red Cliff to
Grand Junction, connecting at that
point with the Utah road, and making
this the through trunk line, via Lead.
vile, to Salt Lake and Ogden, in lieu of
the present line over Marshall pass
The surveys have been completed and
over $200,0C0 worth of grading done
below Red Cliff, in the Eagle river coun.
try. The object of this extension is to
reduce the cost of operating by trav-
ersing a route having a much lighter
average grade and curvature, and to
avoid the heavy snow obstruction of the
Marshall pass route. BY the building
of this line one of the most promising
agricultural, stock and mineral regions
in Colorado, the valleys of Eagle, Roar
ing Fork and Grand will be made di.
rectly tributary to Leadville. The
road will also tap the extensive btu
minuous and anthracite coal fields ten
miles below Glenwood springs, from
which Leadville will draw her future
fuel supply. A branch road, thirty
miles in extent, constructed along the
Roaring fork, will open to us the wealth
of Pitkin county and give us a trade
which has long desired a railrad COM
munication with Leadville. There is
substantial ground for belief that this
great enterprise will be pushed through
to completion during 1884, a year full
of promise to Leadville, notwithstand-
ing the disastrous business failures
with which it opened, and the c0nse-
quent depression that will follow for a
few months until the winter is brok-
en-"