The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-15

their attention being directed to the
school, that il, when the arrived home.
they should run across any school desks
they would send them out. Not much
attention was given the observation,
and it was about forgotten, when let
tiers received last week by several of
Chloride's citizens from the gentlemen.
contained the surprising but exceed
ingly welcome intelligence that the
desks to the number of a dozen had
been purchased and shipped to H. N,
Castle, for the town. The RANGE echo
ing the sentiment of the people of
Chloride, thanks Messrs. Haynes and
Wilson for their generous donation.
In the language of the Mick, may you
grow young with age, and live till you
die.
]. P. Mcpherson of Hillsboro, and
John Donahoe Of Kingston, visited
this end of the range last week engag-
ed in circulating the petition for the
organization of r new county. Mr..
Mcpherson rambled through this coun-
ty back and forth in the years gone by
and be succeeded in getting hold of some
good mining property, chiefly in the
Cuchlllo's, the Evening Star mine be-
ing the chief one. Mr.. Donahoe has
mining property in the Cuchillo's, also
DR.. Reekie has already begun work
on the wagon road to the Blue Dandy
mine in the Cuchillo's, and will have
nine men at work on the road and
three others sinking on the mlne
next week. There is about half a mile
of road to build to make the connec-
ton with the Black Knight road at the
summit of the range. The doctor will
deliver his ore at the concentration and
advertises in this issue for bids on the
ha uling.
Arthur Talbot, a son of A. Talbot,
superintendent of the Ivanhoe ranches,
is with his father punching cattle for
recreation. The young mans home is
at Colorado Springs, Colorado, where
he located on account of his health
and he expects to return there III
two or three weeks. He thinks with
everybody else that this ought to be a
superior country owe Colorado for pull
monary diseases, and it doubtless is.
j. NJ. Smith exhibits some handsome
specimens of argentiferous galena ore
which is the product of some north
Percha property recently purchased by
him of Jay Barnes and others. There
are four claims in the group, the chief
one being the Ingersoll, which has a
ten inch crevlce of solid galena ore
that run forty per cent. lead and any
where from twenty-five to fifty ounces
silver per ton. Smithy considers that
he has a valuable property here, and it
certainly appears so.
The Lindell hotel is creating quite a
boomin the dinner party line having
been quite lavish in its entertainments.
On Sunday large number OF
guests partook of the dainty viands set
forth by this house and went away fill.
ed to satisfaction. The somewhat novel
dish, for this country, of ice cream had
a place in the desert. If the LindelI
continues its present programme long
the citizens of Chloride will get toofa
to be useful.
The mineral crevice of the Button
is improving in size and beauty in thu
bottom of the shaft where it Is now
about four feet in width. Some fine
specimens of free gold were taken from
the surface of the lead last week while
the ground was being cleared away tt
give ADDITIONAL working room. The shat
IS now 235 feet deep and water is be
coming troublesome. The attempt il
being made to get it down $50 fee
and then pumps and hosting machin
cry Will be put on.
This week or next the Equator mine
in the Iron Reef district will make Its
first shipment of ore, which will con
sist of one carload. The mineral viii
go to Denver. the highest bids on thu
same coming from that point. Mr.
Qulnlan went out Thursday morning
to make arrangements for the dispose
of the ore which will follow him closely
Work on the mine still continues witt
full force, and no diminutlop of tn,
ore body. The Equator has established
itself pretty firmly as one of the chief
bonanza properties of southern New
Mexico.
Miss Georgiana Jones, the young lady
who arrived in the range,in the latte,
part of last October, seeking fol
health. departed her life yesterday
morning, the 18th inst. Miss Jones was
a resident of De Lassus, st. Francois
county, Missouri, having lived Their,
from her birth to the time of her re
moval to Chloride, and where she ha'
a widowed mother still residing. TIT
deceased was twentv-four years of age
Consumption was the means by which
her dissolution was accomplished ant
her young life prematurely blotted out
Since her arrival in Chloride she ha
been a member of the household of j
2. Johnson. with the best possible at