Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1899-09-09
BLAND BREvIIIES.
Personal Paragraphs and Mining Notes
From the Cochitis.

Personal Paragraphs and Mining Notes
From the Coehits.
From Bland Herald.
y. l.. Frazier has commenced the cree.
ton Of a residence on his ranch. two and
one-halt miles above Bland in the Pine
canyon. The house will be one and one
half stories in height and l6x24 feet In
dimensions.
II. II. Mitchell, the postmaster at Ger
rillos. has been awarded the contract for
the setting OF the poles for the extensive
power line between the Albemarle mill
and the Madrid coal mines. His fore.
man has a force OF twenty-five men en-
gagged on the work.
Dr. Grace who recently moved his
office to Albemsrle. will return TO Bland
In q few weeks and resume his p%rsctic.
Il Is also the intention OF the doctor to
erect a hospital In Bland. Experienced
nurses will be in charge and the inmates
will thus be given all the comforts OF
home during their illness.
On account OF the Territorial Fair to
be held In Albuquerque. the managers OF
the ". l.. Trimble " Co. stage line have
reduced the fair to 81 80 for the round
trip between Bland and Thornton.
Tickets will be on sale September Is.
lnal return limit September %.
The Albemarle company has begun the
work OF clearing the r~ight-of-wsy for
their electric power line down Cola
canyon. A force OF twenty-five men has
been employed with Thos. +. Abbott in
charge.
Arumor Is sfloat TO the effect that one
OF the most valuable mines In the yicIn-
ity OF Bland has passed into the hands OF
eastern capitalists. IL liz also stated that
q large mill. equal in capacity to the
Albemarle. will shortly he commenced
In the immediate ~neighborhood Of the
mine.
". ", Strong, Albuquerque's leading
contractor and builder, arrived In Bland
Sunday night and registered at the Ben
son. During the week he was engaged
In looking after mining and real estate
interests In the district.
W. II. knight. who has been acting in
the capacity Of foreman at the Bland
mill In the absence OF X. X. Wentworth,
met with q painful but not serious acct
dent a few days ago. While working
with the retort he had one foot badly
burned, which will necessitste an enforc.
ed idleness for a few days.
Y. X. Brown. who has been employed by
the Albemarle company for the past six
months, has received notice from the
patent office at Washington, d. G., that
his application for a patent on hand-rsil
columns has been received and was con
sidered tavorably by the authorities OF
that department. These hand rails will
be for use on railway locomotives and
will Ut any locomotive. The rails are
formed from cast iron. Az the railroad
officials look upon this useful device ss
favorable, no doubt IL will prove a vslu-
able acquisition. II il expected that
MIR. Brown will receive his patent papers
In a short time.
The Lone Star Mining company has a
force OF about twenty men at work In
the several levels OF their property. A
few contracts have been let recently and
are being worked by double shifts with
good results. Over twelve hundred feet
OF development work has been performed
on this property which opens the great
ore body by numerous tunnels, drifts.
shafts and open cuts. The mine IL now
contested from top TO lower level with a
800 foot shaft by which means the EN-
ployes are enabled TO breathe the dry.
pure air constantly. Rock IL being
broken in each Of the six levels and that
which il not treated at the Bland
mill IL piled on the dump. None
OF the ore IL sorted, hut IL
run through the mill ~ II comes
from the mine. and will assay nearly $50
on the average. OF course there are
stresks which run above the 1900 ounce
mark but that value has not been con
sidered in the above estimate. The
greater part OF the work IL being carried
on In the first and third levels, the latter
OF which IL attracting the principal at.
%tention OF the superintendent and own
ers. In this level a drift IL being run TO
crosscut the lead which at first was
thought to be about thirty five feet wide,
but 40 far 1t has held out until the dis
lance IL over eighty feet. several rich
strikes have been made recently in this
drift that assay considerably above the
$1,000 mark and the values are even
higher IA the work progresses. 1t Ia not
known what ths extent Of the ore DO dyis,
but practical mining men ssy II IA safe TO
estimate IL at from 100 10 l25 feet from
wall to wall.
beware of for CAtarrh that Con-
tain Mercury,
a. mecury will surely destroy the sense
OF smell and completely dersnge the
whole system when entering II through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on prescrip-
tions from reputable physicians, az the
damage they will do IL ten fold 10 the
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