The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1897-03-12
LOCAL NEWS.


Public school opened last Monday.
Mr.. QulnbY Vance is up from Her
moSa.
The mocklng heralds the coming of
springtime.
If you haven't got the grip you're
not in fashion.
Jack Creighton returned Wednesday
from Magdalena.
Keep your eye on Sam Mabry's
grand millinery opening.
Jack S~pradling has sold his ranch on
Silver creek to Henry Myers.
Tbos. Scales is haying assessment
work done on the Bullion group OF
mines on Wild Horse. MIR. Gordon is
the work.
DR.. Wegmann went to Hermosa last
night to see the little daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Burke who is very i'll.
Several Hermosans are down with the
grip.
Mr.. j. G. Flournoy, secretary and
treasurer of the Whitney Hardware
company of Albuquerque, visited
Chloride this week IN the interest of
his company which is one of the larg-
est and most reliable institutions of
its kind in the southwest.
Thos. Scales and Jas. Taylor have
completed assessment work on the
Confidence, the property of the former,
located in the Cuchillos. Ore recently
tested from Mr.. Scales Daisy Bell, near
Grafton, gave returns Of 62S ounces
silver and 4 31.00 ounces gold to the
ton.
Phil. Harsch and John Caldwell are
working the Fannie property situated
on Monument creek. They are taking
out and sacking good grade shipping
ore. The ore has good values III silver
and copper carrying some gold. This
property was formerly known as the
Hermosa.
The Dictator claim, on the east side
Of the Cuchillos, which is being
worked under lease and bond by the
Cliff Mining & Smelling company, is
improving with development. Ore from
this claim gives returns of forty-6ve
one-hundredths in gold, eight ounces
silver. eight per cent copper and rs per
cent lead.
The smelter, after being closed down
for a very short time, resumed oper-
ations Monday morning and has run to
perfection up to this morning when
the plant blew out, thus termln-
ating a very successful trial run.
1t is expected that the company Will
put in a sampler and otherwise i'm
prove the plant preparatory to a con-
tlnuous run.
1t is reported here that Henry Rick
ert and his daughter Elise, formerly of
this place, and who have been living
for some time at Cripple Creek. Colo,
are both dead. The report has it that
the young lady, while skating, broke
through the ice and drowned, and that
the father died 500 after from grief.
It is hoped that the report may prove
to be untrue,
There is no state or territory in the
Union so slack in the protection of
game as New Mexico. It had been
hoped that the present Legislature
would provide a law that would be eff
fclent in the preservation of game,
but as the session is about wei and no
action has been taken in the matter,
it is evident that no legislation in this
direction will be made. What the ter
ritory needs is a law that will protect.
The present law is grossly unjust and
should be abolished. For the absolute
projection of game a law should be
passed that would be just as applicable
TO the Indian AS to the white man a
law that Will prohibit the killing of
elk, deer or antelope eleven months
out of the year; a law that Will i'm
pose a fine of not less than $4,000 nor
more than $4,000, or by Imprisonment
for less than three months nor more
than six months, for the violation OF
the game law, for a period Of five