The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-01
LOCAL NEWS.

The second payment on the Ameri-
car Flag vas made Monday evening at
Engle.
Frank Saucier is out to Socorro this
week looking after the shipment of Pa
Tomas Chief ore.
Manuel Aragon is fencing two lots
on lower Wall street, and will put up a
small house thereon.
Chas. +. Winters & Co. have ordered
a large bill of hardware to add to their
general merchandise store.
Newton Sheldon took a short vaca-
ton from his work at Lake Valley to
pay this end of the range a visit last
week.
The citizens Of Las Palomas are en-
~deavoring to get a direct mail line
from Engle instead of by way of Ouch
lilo Negro town.
A taffy pulling and dance at Andrews
Saturday night at which Capt. Jack
Crawford was the ruling spirit, was
well attended and enjoyed.
The Alaska pump is making a navi-
gable stream of Turkey creek and
Grafton's water supply is assured so
long as the mine works.
Rush Bowe will try working by con-
tract on the Royal Arch mine for the
next twenty-five feet. See the call for
bids published elsewhere.
Tom Kittrell has gone to the Black
Hills of Dakota. He leaves no inter-
ests in the Black range and probably
will not return, at least not until he
gets broke.
A spoonful of common salt is an ex-
cellent cure for the collie and salt is also
awholesome tonic for a stomach rem
dered uncomfortable from being over
loaded with nuts.
The new saloon building at Fairview
will be ready for occupancy in a week
OF ten days. The work of fitting it up
in ship shape Is progressing rapidly and
the fixtures are expected to arrive daily.
Sam Michaelis visited Engle Monday
TO interview a travelling shoe dealer
1t is Sans intention to purchase a
stock Of foot gear for general wear,
not exclusively confined to heavy stogy
stock.
When w. II. Berry of Grafton returns
from his present visit east he will i'll
all probability bring with HIM his bride.
His last communication to friends here
from Burlington, Iowa, indicated as
much.
G. F. Lyman has pre-empted a tract
of land on Cuchillo Negro creek west
of Robinson and lying between Jack
Spradling and the Riley Bros. places.
He will put up a house and dig a well
at once.
The shaft of the Equator mine at
the Iron Reef is now down fifty feet
and the ore body remains unabated.
Night shifts have been added to the
working force and the sinking pro-
crosses rapidly.
Do not forget that there will be a
sociable given by the Chloride ladies
on the 14th inst,to which all are invited.
1t is expected to be not the least behind
the other entertainment of the kind IN
its p~leasurable features.
Westerman & Cos. well boasts a new
pump. Such persons as fail in their
efforts to make 1t draw water will bear
in mind that the fault IS not in the
pump, but is the result Of their own
ignorance concerning it secret arrange
ment.
There was quite a pleasant gather
ing at the residence of Chas. Kings.
bury, at Grafton, Wednesday night
Taffy pulling amused the guests and
served well to while away the hours
Young ladies from Robinson and Fair
view attended.
The owners of the Porter mine, one
of the south extensions of the Ivan.
hoe, who are Silver City gentlemen
have written Ad. Dyer to make ar
engagements to work that property fol
them. The amount of work contem,
plated is indefinite.
Ted Houghton will be back to his
range with the first two thousand dol
lars worth of stock COWS about the 1Ott
instant. This bunch will be suppl
mented at once by three thousand more
The price of COWS with calves range
from twenty-five to thirty dollars.
DR.. Reekie proposes to make thu
Blue Dandy, in the Cuchillos a feeder
to the concentration. He has perfected
arrangements with his partners in tn
property which gives him sole contro
of it, and he wili>3egin work on tn
wagon road to 1t probably next week.
W. B. Dawson came up from Dem
ing for his health last week. He wen
out to Socorro this morning but expect
to be back in ten days. Billy has ha'
q tedious illness but he is getting