Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-07-24
NEWS NUGGETS.
Various Items Of News Gathered from Our
Exchanges and other Sources.

"a new ihiutIdi WOnuSf" is unQer
consideration at the Bullion office, Ell
Paso. The Bullion says '1t consists
of tube of silver four inches in length
fllled with mercury, the lower portion
OF the tube being Of electrum, a nat
.ural alloy of silver and gold, similar to
the metal that four years ago was
discovered in the Catalonia mine at
Kingston, N. NJ In the hands Of the
writer the tube, to which a deer hong
is attached, will invariably vibrate in
the direction of a piece Of gold lying
upon the floor, but if silver is substi-
tuted in place of the gold its motion
will be towards the white metal in
preference to apiece Of. copper metal
or ore lying at an angle from the sill
yer. II now the pendant tube be held
over either gold, silyeror piece Of cop
per ore the longitudinal motion Of
the einstrument willchange to rotary
movement. 1t is not for every one
lhat the instrument will operate.
Among those in whose hands it mani
tests an affinity for the metals above
mentioned are Mr.. Heckelman, of the
Independant assay Office Of this city,
G.. w. Emerson, of El Paso, Col. Ed
Harreu, OF the A., T. g. S. f. railroad,
and the editor of the Bullion. or
those who failed to secure any results
from it are Gov. l.. Bradford Prince,
Col. Sam Ecker, and Mr.. ReclIhart,
e. NJ. While we are not prepared to
say that the Instrument in question
possesses any intrinsic value to deter
mine the locality .of,a mineral lode, it
certainly, in some hands, displays
very perceptable affinity or attraction
for gold and silyer.n
The necessity for having two means
of egress from mine was emphasized
ina striking way last week at White
Oaks, New Mexico. A fire burned
the shaft house on the South Home
take mine, on which there was but
one shaft and Ernest Simoney and
George Drake who were working ia q
level below, were smothercd.
Prospector: Count Montaignac,whd
resided in Tombstone for several
months making it his headquarters,
is now in France. The Nogales Rec
ord furnishes the information that he
hasperrected arrangements to ,,ostab!
lish two colonies of one hundred fami4
lies each, of French agriculturists, in
Sonora, one near Fronteras and the
other at Cacita. Fronteras is about
80 miles southeast of Nogales, and Ca
cita is some 35 miles south of Nogales
on the line of the Sonora railroad.
The purchase of the Cacita and Ci-
buta ranches, owned by Don Use
Pierson, is now pending, the price and
all arrangements having been agreed
upon and settled. The Cibuta grant
is one Of the finest locations, for
small colony in the state, plenty of
water and very rich SOIL
In order to preserve the equilibrium
between gold and silver ex-Speaker
Burns of the famous. Burns 81 Kleiner
Brush Heap silver mine leaschold, has
bought gold mine in Mexico. When
the gold bugs Of the east get ahead of
the western miner there will be no
beds. .--Hillsboro Advocate.
j. H. Reeder, lawyer Of Hays City,
Kansas, has been appointed clerk of
the new federal land court of private
claims. lie will travel with the court
and will have assistants in every city
in which it meets. Eusebio Chacon,
of Trinidad, was selected interpreter.
He is a lawyer and spealIes Spanish
auently. His services will be needed
to translate the Spanish and Mexican
works on the old land laws and to in
terpret the testimony Of witnesses.
Lyman 4. Parker was chosen seeno-
grapher lie was the nlyapplicantfor
the place Denver was selected for
the first sitting of the conrt, which.
will be called on November next.
A session of two weeks will be held
there and then an adjournment will
.be taken to Santa Fe, where the.
second session Of the court will pen
on December 1st. Ireneo L. Chavez,
of San Mateo, Valencia county. has
been appointed deputy clerk for
New Mexico. The Santa Fe law II
braries will be reiedsupon by the.cout
for records Of Spanish and Mexican
land Jaws.
The board of county commissioners,
of Bernalillo have called an election
for municipal onicers of the town of
Gallup, The election will take place
August 10th.
Quite number Of men'are steadily
making wages placer washlng in south
ern Santa Re county.