The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-10

~ sadly E o tked condltion- Alex.
saya d-n puiitiuA
The Lake Valley New Efa says thai
cattle are dying by the duz-ns In the
san SIMON and along the ella In Grant
couniy. Tue disease l. Widespread and
Il not checked speedily. win crsate
havoc among our herds The losses
thus Tar ! n sierra county are consider
able and are being added to daily.
Chas KiaRsbury Of Grafton Is put
ting his business into Shape 50 that be-
a leave II Tor a run back 10 Gods
country. lie expects TO visit relatives
la Quincy and other cities 81 Illinois.
lie hopes that his visit there may b.
productive Of benefit 10 this country
and we al Join him In the wish.
Gus DuSull has purchased of Richard
Vim a REIMBURSEMENT of the latter's
late ranch ON the west side Of the
range. and has made entry OF II In his
own name. as a soldiers homestead.
Gus has papers which make 1t possible
tor him 10 prove up on the land In one
year from date. lie has nearly com
pleted arrangements with asheep own
er to stock the range on shares.
Jas. Ryan farmed this season on Cal
iente creek on Kelley's ranch where lac
has an immense potato crop. He will
have fifty or sixty thousand bushels Of
spuds In all. lie weighed one early rose
potato which showed an ayoirdupois
Of twenty-eight ounces. and he has late
potatoes which will weigh wei two
pounds. He thinks that he will send a
few specimens to the New Orleans ex-
position.
Charley Cady furnishes the RANGE
with the following list OF persons who
assisted In digging the holes and set.
ting the posts around the grave yard
plat this week. II. A. MacGowan. II.
Z. Patrick. John Stone, W. II. Trum-
Dor, Hugh Love. Frank lie Graft and
Oscar Pfotenhauer. The plat Of ground
is $50 x 400 feet. The boards will be
nailed as soon as the lumber arrives
from the mill.
Andrew Kelley and family from Cal.
iente creek came over To the dance
Wednesday evening. Mrs. Kelley was
taken sick and did not have much en-
joyment from the party aud was un-
able to return home until this morning
Mr.. X. says lac has cabbages in his gar
den which have grown with little or no
cultivation to a weight of from twenty
to twenty.four pounds. The crops in
his vicinity are all excellent.
There is u report current here in
Chloride that the law fOrbids "A Catho-
Inc priest holding the Office Of county
superintendent of schools. The story
Is Under the old law the
clause which demanded that school
commissioners should he heads of fami-
lies was a virtual exclusion of priests
from the office. but no such require
ment is In the new law and "a priest is
good as anybody.
John Lyman is now driving on the
Engle end of the Black Range stage
line. Tug Roberts having quit and gone
to Colorado. AS the line runs now.
Lyman drives "A buck board from Engle
to Cuchillo Negro and back each day.
and Charley Morris a jerkey from Chic
ride to Cuchillo Negro and return, to
connect. No change Of horses Is made,
either at Willow Springs or the river,
two teams only being used on the route.
A light spring wagon runs between
Fairview and Grafton.
George Nutbeen of San Marcial visit
ed the range last week and arranged
for having the assessment work done
on the Black Cap and A, T. & ) +.
claims. which he owns in the Cuchillos,
east of Fairview. Both Of these
claims are promising properties and
Dir. n. thinks that he will ONE back In
the spring and go TO work upon the pro-
perties in a way that will speedily prove
their true value. Frank Lackie and
Gregg Maloney are performing the
work now being done upon them.
A. Rush Bowe is enjoying himself in
the White Mountains of New Hamp.
shire. He has the thanks of the RANGE
for a speciment of mica and iron ore
from the summit Mt Washington, the
highest peak of the range, which was
received by mail Monday. He also
sends TO this Office a copy of a daily pa
per called "Among the Clouds" which
Is published Oh the summit of Mt
Washington. Bowe says that nobody
can tell when death will arrive and he
proposes to have all the fun he cal
while free from the old mans clutches.
Dune Lothian. Ed. Leighton. Bill,
Dunn and Charley Bishop. "a bully
crowd), came IN from their prospecting
trip across the range yesterday, aftel
nm absence of exactly four weeks. They
do not report any big mineral finds, buI