Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-14
SIERRA COUNTY.
HiIlsboro.

Judge A. b.. Elliott's favorite horse
was bitten on the nose by a rattle
snake.
The Sierra county bank has been i'm
proved by a fresh coat of plaster on its
exterior surface.
Mrs. Edna Hughes, who has been in
San Francisco for the past two years,
arrived here on a visit to her mother.
The Chinaman sent down from King
ston to serve ten days in Jail was dis
charged late last week. The celestial
was so well pleased with Jail that he
protested being turned loose.
The jury commission met and Sc
lected jurors for Tie coming term of
district court. The commission con
sisted of f. A. Calhoun, j. M. Webster
and Desiderio Tafoya.
Ray Grayson, who went into the Mo-
gollons after the Winston hold-ups, re-
turned late last week. He did not find
the men. who had several days the
start for him. They went into Arizona.
Bower & Orchard have a force Of
twelve or fourteen men working on the
Dude mine on the Machio. They have
their machinery all in place and have
commenced sinking. They are work
ing three shifts.
doc" Silver and "Sheaba" Hurst,
who are the owners of several valuable
mining claims in the Carpenter mining
district, were in town. "Sheaba" is
one of Mark Twain's famous charac-
tiers in his "Roughing Il" and is well
known to all old timers in Nevada,
Colorado and New Mexico.
Probate court was in session Tues
day. Two estate cases were before
the court, viz: Fred Price, deceased.
and John w. Wilson, deceased. c. H.
Laidlaw was appointed administrator
of the estate of Henry C. Seiverling,
deceased, and L. w. Gales was ap-
pointed administrator of the estate Of
Mrs. Louisa J. Cent?, deceased.
While workmen were excavating
ground for the Hillsboro Gold Mining
and Milling company's new mill they
cut an eighteen inch vein of very fine
ore. the best of which it is estimated
will go from 5000 to $500 gold per ton.
This vein runs parallel with the vein
upon which the main shaft is located.
Some fifty or seventy-fve sacks of high
grade ore has already been taken out.
Kingston.
Col. J. p. Parker, one of the lucky
owners of the Lookout mine, and who
has been in town the past few months
surveying, has gone TO Trujillo to look
after his property. While absent. his
cabin, which he left with persons of
all kinds, has been pilfered.
Carpenter mining district was well
represented at Kingston Saturday. Mr.,
Silver, Mr.. Hurst. Mr.. Daniels and Mr..
Gray all being present. The roll call
showed only one absent from the
Kingston contingent. Franklin Pearce
Spates, ne being on the Big Chickee
fishing when the boys took their de
parture.
Messrs. Silver and Hurst are now
preparing to make a shipment of ore
from their mines in Carpenter district,
At present they will ship only nuggets.
They propose to pack their ore TO san
ia Rita for treatment. The beautiful
gold they have exhibited at various
times justiies them in making a ship
ment as soon as possible, and Santa
Rita being the nearest point, they WI
load a pack train with the precious for
that historical point.
Thos. Ashton. of Idaho Springs, Col
orado. has been the guest of Z. Blood
good for a few days. Mar. Ashton is one
OF the old timers in Kingston and came
down to look after his mining interests
here. He has made arrangements to DC
some development work on his Yankee
Girl claim, which he has owned FOL
many years. He considers Kingston tC
have a bright future. His observation
in travelling over the country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, is that the higf
grade sllver camps of Lake Valley M
Kingston are equal, when developed
TO the high grade silver camps of Colo
RADIO, namely, Silver Plume and Aspen
He reports these two high grade silye'
districts, even at the present low prize
of silver, as being steady producers
and far outstripping any low graz
gold camp he has visited during I'M
past year.