The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-10-04
LOCAL NEWS.

outoI, %. Leaus S5-lo-
The oldest ~inhabitant" has been
knocked out by six successive cloudy
days.
Whitney ]. Hill, late of Fairview,
has gone into the bicycle business in
Los Angeles.
Uncle Jake Dimes, who has been
LAID up with q sore arm for some time,
is getting better.
The game season opened dull. As
yet no town nimrod has bagged a.
feather nor 3 hide.
John Saucier has finished his logging
contract at the Wing. mill. He started
for SOcorro this week.
Some of OUT solid mining men pre-.
DICT better times for northern Sierra
county at 40 great distanttime.
Westy Petersen is working Oh a very
promising gold prospect in Slaughter
Pen gulch. 1t is a new discovery.
From the amount of rain that has
fallen during the past week it is evil
dent that a another rainy season has
set In.
Jimmy Taylor.was In town the early
part of this week and sent out about a
pound Of gold dust which he had
cleaned up from his arastra from ore
taken from his Ashyille mine on Dry
creek.
The Fairview smelter folks are yet
wrestling with the proposition of pay
ing up and resuming businessa t the old
stand, 80 we are told. And We are al
so informed that a ming expert Is ex-
pected to visit this country in a very
few days for the purpose Of examining
hecompany's properties.
Jim Blain and family did nett 60 to
the ella. springs, as it was given out
and generally UNDERSTOOD at the time
of their leaving, but otherwise sur
missed shortly after their departure.
They did not stop until they reached st.
John, Arizona, and jim writes that his
postofice address is Springerville. 1t
is surmised that they will not return to
Chloride.
The machinery of the Wing stamp
mill was put in motion last Friday
and all parts moved smoothly, but ore
will not be treated for some time yet.
The saw-mill, in connection with the
stamp-mil, is cutting lumber and tim
bers for the mine; the road to the mine
is about completed and when 1t is fin
lshed work of tlmberiDg the mine will
commenced and the mine put in pro-
ductive condition.
Indians in large numbers invest the
plains and mountains west of here
audit is reported that they are not only
Strengthening game but stealing horses
1t is said that several cowboys, who
have been working in the vicinity OF
the Indians, have had horses and sad
dies stolen. Burt. Hearn, who was or
night herd in the vicinity of the Adobe
ranch, had q horse and a SAT saddle sto
len; he had the horse securely pickete(
and hobbled and sought short rest IL
his blanket near by, he could find M
trace of his horse when he got up afte'
only a few minutes repose. The kill
ing of Cornell in the San Mateo noun
tains a few days ago was, undoubted
ly, it is thought. the work of thos
A.good" Indians MaYajoes). as was tn
killing of Pfotenhauer and BaumbacI
in this district September 18th 1885,
Why should these Indians be allowed
under the guise of good" Indian
with passes from t~heirlagent, to shoe
down ~inoffesive white men and stea
stockP This is a matter that the pee
pie should take briskly in hand and IN
sist upon the government TO put a sto
to such outrages by keeping its mul
derous. thieYing wards on the reset
yation.