The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-29
HILLSBORO.

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TO the court house is nearing con-
pletion,
Chas. Myers is having a verandah
put on in front of his house on west
Main street.
Robins got a carload OF -four and a
stock of boots this week. Dry goods
are coming later.
The So mine is producing some very
fine ore running high in copper and sill,
yer and some gold.
Ray Grayson is experimenting with
a view to irrigating a portion of the
ranch garden this summer.
Seven of Kingston's citizens were in
Hillsboro last Friday attending a meet
ing of the ODD Fellows lodge,
Mclaughlin and Mahar are getting a
whim in position and will continue to
sink the wnZe to 100 feet. This done
the Jew claim is liable to be heard
from again.
The leasers interested with Otto E.
Cent? are getting some coed ore on the
Bull of the Woods mine in Wicks
Gulch. They hOisted nearly a ton one
days last week.
Messrs. Lothian and Larsen are
taking out some good ore from a strike
on the Snake mine. They have made a
new discovery and have a fair body of
good looking ore.
Sanders, Scott &C2. are getting a lit
tie good ore en- their Garfield lease.
They have cleaned out the old work.
ings and are drifting for the body that
was encountered in the tunnel.
RObt. d. Cooper leaves IN a few days
for Chicago, and report says a fair
young lady goes with him. "Happiness
and good luck attend him." is the gen.
eral cry of the good people of Hills
boro.
Tom Mahar, the Placers ranchman
and storekeeper, is hauling lumbeg tie
%inclose a place TO raise garden truck
this summer. Having developed plenty
Of water he wants TO make it do some
good.
Geo. Powell and Tom Long are do
ing some development work on The
Treasure nine at Terra Blanca. Long
has leased and bonded Uncle John
Hollis interest and an effort is being
made to reach the ore contact.
Livery rigs around Hillsboro seem to
get plenty to do these spring Sundays.
Family men find 1t cheaper and more
satisfactory to hire a good team f II a
few hours than TO keep and feed stock
by the month for the small amount of
use they give them.
Pete Anderson leaves this week for
Montana where he has interests in
mining claims. He has been leasing
on the Grey Eagle with Sophias IIoi
singer and having made a shipment of
good ore he has decided to spend the
summer in the north.
The gradual rise in the price of silver
is putting a little backbone into a nun
Der of miners whose interests lie in
that way. If the price continues to
go to Is OIL so cents it Will make such a
difference to Sierra county that it will
appear as if some of the old times had
struck US.
Philip Mckay, writing from Cripple
Greek, says that while the camp is
booming there are plenty of idle men
aud one needs acquaintance to get a
job, The camp extends over a great
deal of territory. Leasing is q feature
and quite a number are doing well at
it.
There has been some discoveries re-
Gently of ore running very hi gh in cop.
per at different points in Sierra coun-
ty, and The near future may find it
necessary to get a plant for the reduc-
ton Of that character Of ore. In Ari-
iona they are now able TO work three
per cent, copper at a profit, while the
discoveries in question run from ten to
thirty. The output of IIillsboro and
adjacent camps ought to make copper
mining a new feature in this section.
A Woman Who VIII Work.