The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1897-02-05
LOCAL NEWS.

For W riting paper and enVelopescai
at this Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Riser arrived
here Monday last.
Mrs. Fife Gibson has gone to visit
her sister at Globe, Arizona.
Jno. Creighton and s. D. Felt made a
trip to HermOsa this week.
Mr.. John McPhale and E1rs. Annie
Adams went to Hillsboro this week.
A number of teams are engaged
hauling iron ore from Edwards Camp
to the smelter.
Chas. Bishop and H. E. Patrick have
finished assessment. work on the Col
umbus for 1897.
There was a pleasant dance at the
home of Mr., and Mrs. Walter Hearn
last Monday night.
Mrs. Minnie McKeough, who has
been stopping with her father, Benz.
Cook, since the death of her mother,
has returned to her home at Trinidad,
Colorado.
j. C. Plemmons and Jack Burke were
up from Hermosa last Saturday. They
came up on business in connection
with the smelter.
Prof. w. II. Hackett, Of st. Louis,
arrived here the early part of this
week. MIR. Hackett is here in the in
terest of the Midnight Mining com
pany of ST. Louis, Mo.
il Bone and Carlos Lewis went
up to the Venezuela mine Wednesday
to sack a few tons of ore for treatment
at the smelter. They will have a ship
ment ready in a day or two.
Twice during the past week some
hilarious individuals have INDUCED in
shooting holes in the air with their six
shooters. This amusement may some
day prove very expensive to the en-
thusiastic shooters.
The people of Fairview will cele-
brate Washington's birthday. There
will be pony racing and other sports
during the day and a grand masquer-
AIDE ball in the evening. A cordial i'll
yitation IS extended to all.
About a dozen men have been re-
pairing the road through the lower box
on mineral creek. This piece of road,
which is annually destroyed by floods,
is being corduroyed and will undoubt-
edly effectually resist further ravages
of high water.
Preliminary arrangements prepare
tory to the blowing in of the smelter
for it's trial run are nearing compile
ton. Fluxing ores are now being haul
ed to the smelter and when a sufici-
ency of these ores have been accumu-
lated to iux the dry ores on hand the
smelterl will start up. Yesterday
Engineer Robert Coplen put in motion
the ponderous blower that is to fur.
nish the blast to the 100-ton stack.
Many newspapers throughout the
territory are absurdly careless in civ.
ing correct credit to mining items which
they carve from their exchanges, as
we'll as misplacing the location Of min
ing enterprises when they "write-up'
by ~butchering items that originate
in other papers, all of which in an in
Justice to the mining communities thai
have been robbed of proper credit anC
exhibits a gross journalistic disparity
that is well nigh wilful ~misrepresen
ton. Probably no mining district II
the territory has been so much imposed
upon by this style of misrepresenta
ton at the hand of Scissors" mining
editors as has our district, a prac
tic which THE BLACK RANGE has fire
auenly denounced. Following is
sample of their Misrepresentation
A few days ago, the Santa Fe New
Mexican, in copying an item from
The BLACK RANGE concerning thu
Cuff Mining & Smelling company O
this place, the New Mexican LOCATED
the Cliff Mining & Smelling company
at no definite place In Grant county
However, the New Mexican wal
promptly brought to correction by
Hon. "a. Reynolds, who stands foI
fairness in all things, and the New
Mexican in its nextissue said: "kepre
Sentative, Reynolds, member of thu