The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-22

III. Dlluu ; uIuB SlOIt Has Dtcu uold-
bly, improved in appearance, and use
fulness by the addition Of the stock
from the Grafton drug store, defunct,
and he now has as handsome shelves
and as well assorted a stock as can be
found in most towns east. The doctor
since he came into possession Of the
place has been making constant addl-
tons until 1t bears little resemblance
to the drug store of a year ago.
Billy James quit his job in the 0s-
curas and came vel to the range last
week TO assist work on the Monte
Christie mine. James has spent several
months in the San Andres and the 0s-
cura Mountains working on property in
which Captain Jack Crawford is inter-
ested. and he says that Capt. Jack has
some magnificent copper and galena
prOspec cts in those ranges. For silver
he will look to his possessions in the
Black range.
r. l.. Harper, the gentleman who has
spent the few months past ~health-seek-
ing on the Cantwell ranch, came back
to Chloride Wednesday and this morn
ing went out bound for San Antonio
and Galveston. lie will be back in
April. Mr.. Harper is a Kansas City
man. He has cattle on Red river in
the Panhandle Of Texas, and also in
Kansas near Lakin but he thinks that
this is the finest cattle country in the
world. His health is materially i'm
proved since he came to the Black
range.
There are now four thousand head of
cattle on the Cantwell ranch on the
ella. This herd was purchased and
and put upon the range last year and
no increase was expected until this
spring. There has been, however, eight
hundred calves belonging to this herd
branded this winter and of this large
increase only two head have been lost.
The owners Of this range are more i'm
pressed with the advantages offered
for stock raising by the Black range
the more their experience brings its
adaptation to view.
The idea Of working the Rifle Shot
mine in the Cuchillos, which was en-
couraged by NJ. Fisher when he was
here, has been abandoned for the pres.
ent because of the refusal of some of
the partners to keep their promises re.
garding the contribution of their pro-
portion of funds. When Mr.. Fischer
came to examine the property it was
agreed that $500 for development
purposes should be put up but when he
made a favorable report, some Of the
partners backed out. And there it rests
B. T. Mcdonald one of the owners Of
Cantwell ranch on the west side, visit,
ed Chloride this week. MI. NJ. brought
his family out here from Missouri last
fall, and they now reside with him or
the ranch. When Mrs. Mcdonald left
the east she was quite low with con.
sumption, and her husband believes
that she would not be alive now had
she remained there. AS a result Of
her immigration to this land the lady
has gained fifty pounds of flesh and il
comparatively strong and healthy
The MrDonalds are loud in their praise
of the Black range as a sanitarium TO
pulmonary diseases.
In the Midnight, Tidal Wave,St. Cloul
and Dreadnaught there is enough ore
if actively worked for the cOncentra
; tor, to put the Apache district during
the next year to the front as the rel
. able bullion producer of New Mexico
The st. Cloud is dong its share in gel
| ting out ore for the mill. The Dread
naught it is understood will start up i
g March. 1t only remains for the owr
9 ers Of the other two named propertle
9 to show the same degree of enterpris
and in six months time the Blac
range would enter on an era of perm;
, nent prosperity.
Capt. Josiah Arnold, of Portag
Wisconsin, is paying the Black range
: short visit this week. Mr.. Arnold
interested in mines in the CabalI
mountains he being chief ow ner In tn
= Wisconsin Mining company's proper
l ties for ten of which he is obtainIn
patents the notices for publication o
y the same having just been made publ
; through the means of this paper. Their
are some fine copper properties anon
the number and the group is prOnoun,
ed by experts to be very valuable. M
A. has been spending this winter in Sa
Il Gabriel, California, to which place h
will return as soon as he has straighter
i ed up his patent business.
n Agriculturalists will find that the ca
lier their ordinary varieties of potatoe
are planted in the spring the better til
+ chance for a crop. The latter part
April or first of May will be best fC
@ this altitude. This is the voice of e.
+ p~erience. If the season is wet it wi
q be doubtless best to plant an early me-
turing variety about the first of Jul