The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-04

will yet persuade Bob I1gersoll to
modify his theology on the subject of
climates of excessive temperature.
The Brooks and Hopewell ranchers
and the Iron Reef miners are creating
considerable life at Cuchillo Negro
town. No additional growth of the
town is yet noticeable but the business
of the place is increasing and the tran
scient population rapidly augmenting
will o make it a place Of consider
able Importance. Visitors to the place
are fortunate in having Ed Tests hos
tlery to entertain and strengthen them,
as good provender and comfortable
shelter is desirable in this as well as in
other counties.
On the first page will be found the
concentrate tests made by Mr.. Castle,
and which were published IN the
BLACK RANGE of the 18th of October
last. Lately, both at home and abroad
there has been considerable inquiry
after these returns, and the property
owners Of the range will be warranted
in u careful study of them. Remem-
Der 1884 is to be "A year of jubilee to the
range, and if these returns do not war
rant the largest hope, no camp in the
world ever offered an inducement to
capital for investment.
The editor of the RANGE is under
deep obligations to NJ. H. Chamberlln
for his services in dong the pencil
work on this paper during our late alb
cense east. Mr.. Chamberlin is a ready
and cheerful writer, understands
fully the aim and end of western jour
nallsm and he makes a live and inter-
esting paper. Besides this gift he is
versed In railroad bdilding and man
agement, is a well-read and successful
attorney, and is altogether without a
peer in the range as a competent judge
of a mine. He is a handy man to have
in a community, and can be made SER
vicable by strangers if any such wish
to buy a good mine at reasonable fig
ures.
1t has been the understanding here
that Sam Foster has had no desire t.
have his Equator discovery, near Ouch
lilo Negro town, advertised until he had
done substantial development. But
like anything of that sort, it gradu.
ally breaks out, and will soon become
notorious. He now has five men al
work on the claim and in as many days
they took out a hundred sacks of ore
that will probably run $4,000 to $4,0UC
to the ton. D. M. Smith who is as good
Judge of mining property as there is il
the range, and who is reliable, came il
from there Monday and says that til,
ore body is large-that holds it out, ant
that it shows fine in wire silver.
The returns from the carload of ore
sent to the Billing smelter at Sooorr,
from the Palomas Chief mine by Rich
ard Mansfield White netted him SIS
per ton. Considering that the ore sen
has been lying out in the weather 70
two years where the loose dirt from tn
mountain has been washing down upol
and among it, and that all the sortin,
and selecting OF the shipping ore wa
made with ii shovel,t the returns receive,
were excellent and in every way salts
|, factory to Mr.. White who will shil
another carload at once. The Chic
=, has a mountain of this ore ard cal
t send out a train load daily if the own
ers choose to work it to It's capacity.
The Midnight mine will conuribut,
its quota to the eager jaws of the con
: centratOr's crusher. One hundre,
sacks of the ore will be brought dowl
for the initial test. Every new exam
: ~iuation of this property increases th
? value of the property in the eyes o
2 the owners, although it doesn't rails
, the price asked for it. This week MI
1 Chamberlin took a look at the crosscu
{ at the bottom of the eighty foot shat
where lie had concluded that there wa
nothing, and was consequently surpris
S ed to find an eighteen inch crevice there
! in which was nearly solid with the first
D class ore, The Midnight is "a magnif
n cent property beyond doubt.
e Charles Bishop has finished the as
e sessment work upon the Excelsior an
Omega claims running in a tunnel a
the junction of the claims for a dis
q lance of twenty-five feet, Decompose
~ quartz carrying free gold which show
i. good colors in washing, was found tn
entire distance. The owners, Charlie
Bishop and the Southwestern Mimi
company will brlrg down a few tons t
, the concentration when running ant
tests its value, when if it shows u
we'll, they will work the prospect TO
= the mill. About one hundred tons ar
;, out TO- upon the dump. Ore vein Q
unknown width. 1t has been pros
pected to a width of eight feet and i
g much broken up.
u The editor of the RANGE while il
Kansas City last week, met Charlie
AunrS md alsn Win lnnksnn and NJ