The copper era., 1902-12-25
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 k. H. Hopper, who recently organ izcd a company on the Porter mines and mill in the HillsbOro camp, \. NJ, is in the east, and extensive work is planned to commence early next year.
 Stewart Willow, of Fort Bayard, who had committed some horrible crime, deserted, and four days later his-body was found in d small adobe near the post. He had suicided by hanging.
 Will Turk was killed last week at Hope by d saloon man named McDon aid. They had q quarrel and Turk re- turned armed. He was a prominent sheep man and leaves wife and baby in Roswell.
 Capt. R. E. Wood. an experienced mining operator from British Colum- bia, has charge Of the work of the Oliver Mining company's mines, the Goodenough and Hoosier Boy, at Chloride, x. NJ.
 B 5. Phillips has most of the ma chinery on the ground for the new mill at the Silver Monument mine, Sierra county, New Mexico. Mir. Montgomery of Denver, is superin- tending its erection.
 The Guggenheim Exploration com pany has 5000 acres in the Silver Lake group of claims in southwestern Colo rado and has acquired recently the Letter C vein upon which it owns sev- en mills. It is milling l l ,O00 tons per month from the Silver Lake.
 B. II. Dye has resumed operations at the Rita gold claim and as soon as the necessary preliminaries are com pletcd will begin regular development. The Rita joins the North Homestake and is thought to be q very flat tterin9 prospect.-White Oaks Eagle.
 Don Kedzie, Of the Lordsburg Lib- eral, recently made trip to Fl Paso over the Fl PasO and Southwestern and says he prefers it to the $. r. be- cause the train arrives at 5:I5 which gives one time to take bath and q meal before going to the theatre, where as over the the 5. r. the train does not arrive until o'clock, which does not give time for bath and a meal. To most people the bath would not be of so much importance, as they usually take their bath at home every morning, but the ERA Is informed that Kedzie takes bath every time he goes to Fl Paso, whether he needs 1t or not.
 The Denver Post prints a story to the effect that part of the state of Colorado south of the 3Sth parallel, a strip of land 50 miles wide and 100 long, belongs to New Mexico. It says that dispatch from Washington an- nounce that the enrolled act as it passed congress is explicit on this point. The original statute was passed in 1850 and gives New Mexico's north ern boundary line as the thirty-eighth seventh parallel in the statute passed in 1861, there is no reference there to any change of the New Mexican law of 1850. The latter being prior law makes the matter a serious one TOT Colorado.
 Col. A. F.. Head, after q six months sickness, died at his home in San Francisco Saturday. Col. Head was a prominent operator in the early days on the Comstock. He was well known in this section Of the country as sup crintcndent of the various Diamond A interests The cattle then were owned by firm composed of Col. Head, J. B. Haggin and Senator Hearst. While he had charge of the interests of the company he made his home at the De- pot Hotel in Dcming. He was cx- trcmely popular among all classes of people, and was especially loved by tho cowboys who worked for him. It was his special delight when his cow boys were in town with shipment of cattle, to entertain them at the hotel, at which time he would make arrange ments with the manager and the victuals fed these men was as unlike tho grub they were used to on the q made ono time by cowboy at the sight of some strange looking grub, | greatly tickled the colonel, and he never tired of telling it. He had or dcrcd round of Welsh rabbits for the gang. When the plates heaped with tho yellow mass was placed before the cowboys some of them looked at it doubtfully. Oscar Roberts called out to one of the boys: "Bill, what does that look like, and what arc you going to do with il? Bill looked at the | melted cheese and replicd: Il don't | know what it is, Oscar, hut anything l the colonel will cut out I'll fly at it." And he made way with the rabbit without q truggle.-Liberal.
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