The Black range., 1884-01-18

and the necessary steps toward obtain
ing title to the town site will be pro-
vided for.
Alex. Barascher made settlement Of
his claim against the IvanhOe company
on a compromise, getting most of the
sum which he considered due. He is
now at Fairview looking about for
good and safe investment for his money.
Mrs. DR.. Blinn departed on Wedges
day mornings coach for her old home
in Marysville, Ohio, to pay a visit to
her relatives. She will be gone
couple of months. The doctor will try
and exc out an existence during her ab-
sence.
Geo. H. Utter, of Santa Fe. came
down to the range last week and is fix
ing up matters looking to resumlng
work on the Nordhausen mine on Bear
creek. He will probably let contract
for fifty OF hundred feet of shaft TO
be ad ded to the fifty feet already OPEN
ed.
The storm of last week brought back
several travellers who were already
started from Chloride for various places.
The most of them got off again this
week but with hardly better auspices.
such dampness will insure magnificent
grazing on the ranges of this region.
The unprecedented success of the
sociable last week makes another one
the subject of public demand and con-
sequently the ladies of Chloride con-
template a meeting for tomorrow af-
ternoon to discuss the matter. The
probable result will be sociable about
week after next.
G. f. Lyman arrived in the range
with his family last Friday evening
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mrs. I.y-
man is a sister to Mrs. Castle with
whom she is stopping at present. Mr.
Lyman has three hundred head of fine
young stock on AnderSOn's ranch
above Fairview, that he brought out in
November.
Richard Winn of Mariette, Georgia
who spent several months in the range
last spring with headquarters at Graf
ton, but who returned home last May
is again with US having arrived We'd
nesday evening. Mr.. Winn came to
this land as a consumptive, regaiDed
his health and fell in love with tht
country.
A strike of mineral was made in thu
200 foot drift of the Royal Arch mint
this week on which two assays gave re.
spectively thirty dollars in silver anC
a trace of gold and seventy-three dollars
in silver and twenty-one dollars IL
gold. The ore is from sulphide dis
seminated through the quartz.
Iron-capped ledges in lime forma
tion are the rage now for prospectors
Very little prospecting is being don
for mineral in forms other than car
donates and as experience demon
strates that lime and iron produce car
' Donates, lime and iron are away abov,
= par in the minds of silver searchers.
J. H. Drake IS at work on the Head
light location in the neighbor hood 0
the Silver Monument mine. He has
l. contract for sinking twerty feet 0
s shaft, making the present six foot shat
i twenty-six feet deep. The propert
y is owned by NJ. II. Chamberlin an
Caldwell and Gillem and shows fou
r feet of a mineralized ledge.
t I. H. Rea from Marshall, Missouri
is paying the range a visit this wee
7, taking look at the best mining pr
perties. Mr.. Rea is a mining man {
Q information and experience and repr
s sentS considerable capital. 1t is hope
l. that he will be sufficiently well plea
s. ed with the prospects as TO be induce
q to take hold and help develop the cOul
try.
(. There seems to be a lowering clou
e of discord hOvering over the Walkir
+ John location on mineral creek, whiC
q. on the 1st inst, was relocated as Il
d Dictator. Both the original and Il
new claimants propose beginning wol
:. upon the property at once and If bot
!, persist in their determination a cor
" promise or law suit must result. TT
; property is a promising one and
; worth quarreling over.
t. The owners of the Dictator claim {
~ Mineral creek, formerly the Walkir
;, John relocated January first for wal
~ of requisite assessment work. ha'
20 made arrangements for developing Il
l., claim and will sack up and jack dow
large number of sacks of the ore ;
ready out and make thorough test
" the same. Mr.. Wllford has examinl
~ some of the ore and pronounces it
~ good concentrating quality. If it tur
III out we'll the claim will be worked
g all it is worth for the concentration.
Geo. Beebe and Henry Westerns
m ade a discovery of galena ore in t
3D. Iron Reef district which upon ass
W. proved to have value of six hnndr
De and forty dollars TO the ton. The stri
of :.