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Cottmo

HillaUwo

1 sarrouuded 1

a rich ranch and farmuitf country. iv'oanowand bu

very light frosts ia winter time. Sun-thiii-e the bol

year around. An abundance

ofwater. Excellent schools. Flue i'hur:bes.

Hillsboro U _{situated in}

tns center of the _great Uillsboro, Kiutfston and '

clack

_Rine

_{goldand silver} country, n4 _only IS miles distant from tba famous Like Valley silver fields.

A TRUE FISSURE VEIN GOLD CAMP,

HILLSBOIIO GOLD PLACERS.

_r

_P.

_J.

_BENNETT,

_{Editor and}

_Proprietor.

DEVOTED TO THE MINING. KANCH. MERCANTILE AND GENERAL INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF SIERRA COUNTY.

Volume

_XII.

No.

_651.

HILLSBOROUGH,

SIERRA

COUNTY,

N.

_M.,

_FRIDAY,

_SEPT.

_{14, 1894.}

Three Dollars Per

Year.

.- - .,,,.,.,.-,.- . .... - .. - - ... ,-... . ,, : "" .:::.

ft further word to say in the interest big as kernels of corn" are to be

Fw

at Law and Solicitor in _{of the miner, mechanic, and} far-- _{had there.}

_I

_have

sen

_them my-me- r,

and the other laborers and nelf, and wheu onehas seen a hand

nmlniuro ia veil

_i

tU

monnf.ift. fu! of mir-l- i atnff Im ilnnn not won-

-Uuancery.

Hillsborough, New Mexico.

Will _{practicein all the courts of} the Ter-ritory. Prompt attentionRiven toall

eatruHted to my onre

REPLY OF JOHN BENNETT,

OF KINGSTON. TO

INQUIR-IES FROM THE TARIFF

COMMITTEE.

Concluded

Evidently there ia a depression in trade. _Among others visting themoney centers, is asilver miner.

"l

"

tJ,""-,-D

nrer, merchant, and importer. For der that the prospectors try again we _{feel, as Presiden} t Cleveland and again iu_spite of the fair cer

-v .

...

k.

"3

..v

.

taint of death as a reward, instead "fin

ELLIOTT, has said, tLat the enects of a

_SPRING

MOM

aucial depression" fall first

A."-

-of fortune. an

The pay streak at _{Sloggett Bay}

hardest on thelaborer. That class Ha ia _simply shown the "notice

Every

Pair Guaranteed,

lies under water, as it does else on the door which reads: "No ped-

-

of whom the President has said

where _{throughout the Cape Horn}

lefrs, book _{agents, or}cranksalfowed _{in connection with the wor(}

address

an Franci

0r

e region, but it is harder to get here, the historic extra session, "Th

very manofall others who has tb because it can hardly be said to

dians, while two well armed sober crop out at all. Oue must _strip

deepest interest in a sound cur

offabout six feet _{of sand and grav} mencuu defend a well found boat from the uavaies. and if skilled rency and who suffers by

mischiev-ous legislation in monetary

mat-ters ia the man who earns bis dai in hero. No _{mines bought or}sold.

Beggers are liable to be arrested, etc."

It

looks _gloomy.for silver, but

the stone which the builders

re-jected may yet become the head of the corner.

Place Bilver with gold before the law and the mint, and the silver producer needs no money to pay

elatlow _{tide, and then shovel out}

the pay streak, carry it up clear of high tide, and then wash out the

and cool _{can escape the dangers} of storms.

ly bread by his daily toil." The Attorney at Law,

Hillsborough, N. M.

AMES S. _FIELDER,

Attorney at Law,

SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO.

J.

E.

SMITH,

. JUSTICE

OFTKE

PEACE

NOTARY" PUBLIC. HiIlBhorougli, - Jiew Mexico.

FRANK I. GIVEN, M. D.

HILLSBORO, NEW MEXICO.

But neitherfrom boats nor from gold. Of course when the tide

comes in _{again the space stripped} a land expedition has anyone as yet been able to explore the higher President further says of the wage-earne-r,

"He, the first tobe _injured by the evils of unsound finance and the last to receive the benefit

poff the covering is recovered, and

partsof the mountain sides.

In-deed where nothing else _prevents the stripping must all bedone over

.cash for the labor which he em

of _{its correction,} is _practically de again at the next low tide. That is very discouraging work, but no form ofcoffer dam _yet devised by

it, the tropical luxuriance of the evergreen beeches and magnolia brush heads off _{the hardy pros} fenseless." He was _promised re-li- ef

through election of Democrats to power. Then the repeal of the Sherman Act. Now through tar

the miners has saved it.

They all agree that there is only pector.

It

is hard work climbing up the rocky gulches and declevi- -one way in which the Sloggett Bay

iff. Have the Democrats done _{ties under the most favorable cir} field can be worked, and thsy

their _duty? Have _any of _{our leg}

jpfy-.Vff-l.-e in C. C. Miller's Drug

ifll,-- Ruililimr. Hours: From I to 3 _{think that that} cumstances, but wheu one must

way would proba islators? The _people await a

face fierce _{gales of wind and} at the bly fail, too. The ideal Bloggett

r.7--, _{and 6:30} to 8:30 p. in.

'

72- remedy." "There's the respect

1

_i

same time hew his way through a

Bay outfit would be a big steam

that makes calamity of so long

n i

--m

_t

_f

solid mass of brush covering the

a

1

'

_{Umlse. fitted to scoop up sand and}

whole space to boexplored the task crave! and paystreak all together,

in

ife," L.X

Reports from the Yukon gold

loonsin live weeks. The Hausen were away 11 months 1892-93- . Every year some sail away, and the

sail disappears beneath the white ' peak of Mt. Sarmiento, that i

plaiuly seen from the water front of Punta Arenas. After three or

four months White Winga

utfit"orthe

"Mary Q outfit" is casually mentioned bythe barroom groups as ?ne thatshould be heard from before long. Two or three months later they are mentioned frequently and with ominous looks and shakings of the head while an auxious facod wife or mother i

Been _hurryingto the beach when

ever a_{sail appears in} the south, to

return with sinking heart and a

dry throatas she learns that it is

neither the White Wings nor the Mary G.

The region seems but a narrow Bpace as onelooks atthe maps, but

it is a wide one with _labyrintbian channels and bidden _{bays, the} ports of many a sloop and catboat of which nevera trace will be found to tell the taleofdisaster.

It

is region where no man with a wife or other person depending on him

should enter,but for the young and independent fellow who can gain vigor and courage in facing the

mad freaks of an Atlantic gale, thereis no better plaoe than

that

beyond the Straits of Magellan. He may not get rich the cbanoe are that he will be _glad to werk hisway north in the stoke hole of some steamer but he will have had an experience that will make him contented to live thereafter in becomes too great even for a Yan

and after running the stuff over the 'rt. dial.

kee _prospector.

It

never has been

0, bears"S _{mines, state that tlie mines are uices and copper plates to get} r treo 1G

accomplished and it probably

out allthe _{gold, there to discharge} .tut anahoii

rd

li

iff

V

44V W.63 .5 ft. Cor. No _{the debris in} a _{lighter, that} could ploys, his product is money itself,

and always has been since civilisa-tion began. (Vide, any treatiseon money or political economy.)

The silver producer will employ 1,000,000 _peopk, if not directly, he will at least indirectly, and a great many more,

lie

lias not been

buy-ing any fine clothes recent!', or good things to eat.

It

takes no Adaui _{Smith, or Matthew Marshall,}

or Senator Stewart to _{tell you} how he, as well as every oiib who lives sround his camp, would make the money fly.

Th sfruit raisers and gardeners in the vicinity of his silver plant

could sell all their produce, and the Kansas and Missouri farmer could feel the drain upou their sun plus corn and wheat; and they would all _{buy new clothes.}

The miner would have new and imported machinery and tools, and thousands would go to work to make them, aye millions would be manufacturing clothes, tools and luxuries, for him as well as for those whom he had set to work, and twelve mouths would not roll around until there would not ba an

yielding more gold than usual. The Bertha _broughtdown$100,000 in dust. The miners lost large

quantities of Btores in the floods

be towed away and emptied m

li

_,

I

I!

and itis feared that their provis-ions will run short for the next

water too_{deep to} work. If such an outfit could hold on for a week they say it would pay for itself. It itcould hold on for a month it

would make itaowners rich beyond wishing. That it might hold on winter.

The Coeur d'Aleue has shown

the advantages of concentration;

the Homestake the way to reduce for a week or two is reasonably

never will be.

There is nut a mine in all the

region such as Cripple Creek, Colo., or Calico, Calif. The placers, though found in almost every sandy beach of the region, are all soon worked over, and thereafter pay only day's wages. So no camp or _{village springs up, as would} hap

pen were a rich fissure veiu to be found. But Ushuaia, in the

Bea-gle Channel, the capital of Argen-tine Tierra del Fuego has three

stores and a small mixed popula-tion, besides the troops that main-tain Argentine dignity, and, with

its occasional Indian visitors, its

happy-g-o _{lucky arehitecture,} and eulphurets by chlorination; Crip

Chemist,

IULLSBORO, N Al.

Assay oflico at Standard Com-pany's mill.

'

A. H. WHITMER.D-- D-- S-

-Dii)ti8try in ail its branches. Special aUoutioti KiveI1 to crown and bndgo wort

olJ platea, etc.

ST. ca.vur.E3

building,

EL PASO. TEXAS.

probable, but the chances are it would become a mass of _wreckage even before it reached the bay. ple Creek bv concentration and

Bmelting, the Mercury by cyanide; Denver by utilizing sulphur for

fuel; Wiswatersrand by plates,

Tha prospectors say that nc dredge ever built for harbor work could stand a southwest gale there for concentrates and cyanide and so

an _{hour, and yet} the sailors among Uiem _Bay that a dredgfl built

espe-cially for that work on the light idle man _{in any city} who was

wil-ling to work. And Secretary Car _{its heaps} of _{empty bottles,} is not hio model, with proper ground

lisle could call in his bonds. _{unlike a North} American mine the milder region of Uncle Sam's domain, and will, moreover fit him tackle for _mooring fore and aft,

This (Jovernment mu$t have a _{town, while the sheep ranch of}

could stand tho galea there as well on down the list, while Nevada

clings to pan amalgamation. SLOGGETT BAY IS THE MOST

TANTALIZING SECTION FOR PROSPECTOR'S. Of all the spots iu the Cape Horn region Sloggett Bayt on the south coast of Tierra del _Fuego, about 4omiles west of the straits

of Le Msire.is themost tantalizing.

to make his way there better than "wheel in itshead." Allow me to

ns those on the Georges Bank of llev. Thomas Bridges, amissionary

living further east along the chan hecould have been prepared in any Bgain call to mind tke time when

JAMES ADAMS,

Boot

and Shoemaker,

Opposite the

Postoffice,

HILLSBOUOUGH. N. M.

Massachusetts ara weathered by _othor

way. Correspondence in N. you and

I

were boys together, or _lichtship. nel, sells a lot of bread and meat to

the prospectors who haunt the Y. Sun. our fathers were. The silver coin

It

ia aremarkable fact that in

in circulation was mostly foreign _{MINING NOTES.}

spite ofall the prospecting done, then. The United States was not

no_{gold quartz veins have yet been}

More expeditions have been fitted The headquaiters of the Cape DanvarMining Industry. Horn miners will be found at Pun-

-producing silver much. Since then nut in Punt Arenas to go _{to found. The only bit of good ore} 1 _{The most expensive} of all metal we have become a great silver-pr-o

ta Arinas at once one of the most saw or heard ofwas asmall pieceof _is

gallium.

It

is worth $3,000 an duclng nation, the greatest in the Sloggett Bay than to any two gold _interesting and one of the most

free _milling stuff belongiug to

ti

v

:,

dicffincs besides. Almost every ounce, _{l'ortunateiy tne} most oi

disappointing towns among other

Bruno Ansorgeof Paramo. It was _{us can mauage to worry along} now wo vuru

c

"

WOriu, uguv

has gotten gold and yet destroy expedition

andbyantisilver legislation _{thPffl DftV thines} is that it is a free port i.

rich, but where the vein was none _{through life without a very large}

UUVDI U114 OU V 4 v

ja.vw,

the industry e ,notariff duties are levied imports,

SMITH'S

CASH

DEAL

GROCERY

STORE

!

Next

West

of

Richardson's

Meat

Market, Hiltsboro.

always new and frexh and at

fiwnableprices. I shall make a special

Pt

Call nd examine my Roods and price

Hr.

purchasing.

E.M.SMIJU

amount of _gallium. he outfitters. Iudeed, more lives could _tell,for it was irorn a on or

rift rock called float by the miners A verv rich cold ledge ia report you call a man who would do that have been lost trying for Sloggett

d

two _{points ed to have been discovered in Ida}

Bay gold than at any in his business destroy one of his

besides, and that issaying a good ho, about 15miles from Boise, on a and had been _{picked up} between

Useless and

'San

Sebastian bays.

Nj

doubt the _placer gold found in all the streams of Tierra del greatest industries, an industry

and it is a port of call for three great lines of steamers ronning be-tween Europe and the west coast of South America.

Jt

has about 30steamers amonth in port. Consequently the miners' supplies -- picks, pans, clothing

Tn _nna ernaiiltion WltU 11 stream called Willow creek. A

unni. ' vw from which he could derive cash

nr. all Vtllt. _(MA WfTfl loSt III tllO vein 2J feet wide has been ancoy. nrn.l fur 100 fepfc. The ore runs

of

surf when _{their sloop drove ashore Fuego and along} tho Straits

from $1,000 to$2000 to the ton. Magellan comes from veins up in

while the number lost, one or two

R.

D.

COOPER,

I The Black Hills Times tells of time from other expeditions the mountains where the streams

at _{the recent sale} of a _mine in that

rise. Very likely systematic worn brines the total above 23, they say,

ould discover the veins. But the

Sloggett Bay is really no bay at

U

and food aro cheaper here than at any other miners' supply town in the world. But while a man _may get these things at a low price

here, he has to buy a boat Instead ofa barrobe would have to buy

direct, no tariff needed to protect

it, whatever maybeneeded in other industries.

V _{think Ihut} we _express th3 views of nine-tent- hs ofthe citizens

of this immediate section in "add-ing," as _{you suggest, "such} gener-a- l

or special matteras you may be possessed of, and which in your judgment will be of value to the committee."

We also take advantage oftheex-

-all. It is a roadetead with shelter DEALER IN

-Ice

Cream

Lemonade

Confectionery,

Fruits, Nuts,

Cigars, etc.

search would have to be made under circumstances that would nulla i.n tha northerly and

section the Keystone on Battle

creek to a New York _syndicate for $250,000 actual cash paid,not

a _{nominal selling price}ilargely

re-presented by slock. This "vould indicate that the moniedmou ofthe east were_just alittle relaxing their

rigidity of

thir

grip . _upon their

Ii'tt nOlID v w r I

westerly sides, and a very good make the

fur

weather prospectors

in _)a Brute to carrv bis outfit A

LuM

i U.O.I on onclinr.

It

of Colorado ana me gruusiaao

fv

couple of burros cost say $35 in

OPPOSITE

K. of

P.

HALL,

UUIUIUJ IKJ uuiv. mm

about as much a harbor as a ship ers ofthe Mojave dasert gasp. The

would Hod on a bar off Sandy mountains of _{Cape Horn} region Colorado, but here he must buy a sloopora catboat, and he ought to

. _{.i i}

.1

HILLSEORn, N. SI.

fyFreid

Bread Daily. Hook. Fur a uoitUcilyor iole,rIy

Tunas.

Tho Graphic is the name of

a

mine in the littlecamp of Magno-lia, Bouldor county, that i Mid to are snow _{topped tue year} rouou.

The cold is not so intense as the Uiteocd Jtoiie iu yout circular iet-

-bny a schooner 50feet long instead-No-any kind of a boat fit to

liiTa that ranlipR 'Hhh.U civd A full

earlv travelers would make one be

iv, l4 ,uiai av

-C9

CITY

expression of views and not be re _{yield a calverile} ore wortu 911 a

wrry even the amphibious pros lieve, bat there isa strength and a

stricted to merely answering tho _{pector of the Cape Horn regwn} costs at least $100 in gold, and must be fitted out at acost of from

v."i _{in $100 more,} not to meution

the mining outfit proper.

Having an outfit to suit, the gale the shelter is as good as

any-one could wieh. but the waves from the southeast drive in with appalliDg fury. Indeed, any southern gale is_dangerous, for the whirling squalls genuine torna-does the "williwnws" of

whale-men, slew a small boat around until broadside onto the comb6rsf and the end comes

leforethe

un-fortunate gold hunter has time to

think twice.

Tho gold of Sloggflt

By

is marvellous gold.

It

is nugget gold cs distinguished from gold dust. The Uaditional

_"aagst

as

pound or$141,000.1 ton.

It,

How-ever, docs not occur iu enormous bodies.

It

is _{not dug out by} the ton every day or even every week or mouth,

it

isfound iu very

nar-row _{seams lightly} and furtively sporting through tha gtantto and often eluiivaly mingling with the cheaper matter. Tha owner, how-ever, it is claimed, is able to get enough of it to pay working ex-rm- nso

aud afford him a fair in-come.

Dr.Price's Cream Baking Powder

AParaOrapa Craaat al Tartar Pewtfar,

prospector sailaway south, feeling twist to tho gales especially a

twist that is _{beyond description.} And the gales come every day in summer and every we"?k m winter. Expeditions have traversed Tierra del Fuego with horses, but the cheapest andmostcomfor table way (in spits of _{tha danger)} to

pros-pect the region is from a well found boit. Moreover every land expedition must contain enough men to keep up a military guard, because of _{the buatility of tha In} questions categorically,' and will

beconfined at the same time to what ffectsourspecific business.

Your effort to get at tne .real cause of our "financial depression' we _{fully appreciate, and are not} of

that small percentage of citizens who'denounce your work as parti-san and claptrap, and we believe

that your circular lettprs are not thrown out

fr

th beuefit of a certain class or classes. Were this thocase we would like to Lave

ouite certain

....

that_.they win come_.

i ii.

_...I

back with tbeir liooKcr imwasieu with dust DOiTc'eta. The shortest

Has

opened

in

the ahl court

house

building

in HiUsboro.

-

"

_"T

_OM"H

AN

D

E

L,

Prop

."

r.OOD

MEAT

And

SAUS-AGE.

VEGETABLES A.KD POCLTUY.

AND GAME IU SEASON.

time spent away from court by any

T tixird of was that oi the

oi vj

The

FRIDAY, 8KPT. 14, JK4.

from which lumber had been cut down to lumps of charcoal and when _{tha gaugers} of the comaiis-sie- u

come to measure the stouip-a-ge

on the ravaged school lands they are left with absolutely no basis for calculatieg the lumber 6toIen. This is exactly what the

Hillsboro

Mercantile

Company

COL. V. F..

SiUTII

TALKS. Iteming Haaalllii.

CM. P. R. _{Smith, of} ths _Deming

Land & _{Water company, informs}

the _Headlight, that on the 14 or 15

of the present month the first of a series of five orsis excursions Trill

arrive here from the east, compris-ed of_{parties looking for locations} in this western _country and

especi-allyin Demmg. The first excur

fcjitcrrdat the1'iMtnttuw AtHillittioruoKb,

B;err County, New _jlrxir't, for _riiuui ion through the I'uitoJ_tiite Mail, m

Mines,

Mills

and

Smelter- -Ootpot of HiJIsboro gold mines

for the week _{ending Thursday,} Sept. I3ib, lS'Jj, as reported for

The Advocate :

Tons.

From the fitan.lar.1 Gold Alining

Jk. _{Milling Company:}

Miaa , - CO

Opportunity Min J45 From the ;ood-liop- e Bonanza

Mining fc _Milling Co :

'..mania Mine 110

IVrcha 10

Krom fi.o Wj.-vs-, full . tha

crooked luQjUrnitO wast, but ia

starting fires they mada altogether

too clean a _job. The tires _spread

Announces the receipt

of

large

consignments

of new

goods,

among

which isa

splendid

assortment of

over 1,000_square miles of _country. sion will _{number about fifty}

peo-ple aud will come ioover the Rock

Island & _{Texas Pacific from Chi}

WcMxU.KI _{Oroarxl other} mine .

TUB MAltKCT. IWailver... (IS JO Conner H " 3 05 Tin..., It 05 irr.n !0t' 13 m

Jiexkan pesos (Kl I'axo) 61

Anthony Joseph and

Nich-olas

Galles

for

_Congress,

and

Williard

_S.

_Hopewell

and

Frank

V.

Parker

for

the

Legislature.

What

a

race

'0

1H,C'.5.

TotJ

r!l

(,'itpat since Jan. 1, JR'M-

,-cago. Other excursions will follow

at short intervals. The persons who

destroyed hundredscf human lives and devoured $20,000,000 worth of property. Whether ornot it can be _proved that _{these tires grew out}

of little ones kindled by "timber pirates," there is a loud demand through all the pine country that

cf tb Kid _report having seen him in psrsoa forfciui time there is a btrocg doubt cf his beingdead and buiied. He is worth too much dead abd onburied to be laid away io the 6ilent tomb; without at least having his bend turned into the territorial treasury in exchange for five thousand hard American dollars, which theterritorial

treas-urer has oa hand to pay

fr

it.

If

he sickened and diod that did not lessen hisTalue. There is no

per-son iu Arizona but who kuows what he is worth dead, and it is impossible to suppose there is a person in the teritory who would bury him without trying to realize on hiui. When the Kid dies he will cot be buried in a _{secret grave} near Nogales known only to Paw-De- e

Charlie, but he will be deposit-ed in the vaults of the territoiial

treasurer. Lordjburg Liberal.

Dr. "Vice's Cream Caking Powder

FortyYear tha Standard.

John G.Mauger'tUilorof tiic Sunbeam Seligman, Mo., who named Orover Cleveland f r the Presidency in _Nov.,

12,

while lie aa _{Mayor of Buffalo,} N

Y., iseiitliusifetie ia hU_praise of

Cham-berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea

Remedy. He_says: "Ihave used it for

tha _pat five years and consider it the

Men's

and

Boys9

Clothing

The IJermnd stiver miners and lessoes invariably sample their ore

before sending it to tho smelters, _{the manner of}

cutting timber

le

and _though their ore runs into

severely regulated. the hundreds _tley seldom miea the

and

Ihocs

come on them are all well to do

and _{comprise many in} Ecaich _of a

health_{giving climate, where they}

may carry on _{light agricultural} or

other _pursuits. The citizeus of Deming will _{extend every courtesy} to their guests.

Col. Smith was _{also asked by the}

Headlight man _concerning the publication by a Silver City paper of an article reflecting upon him and Lis management of the

com-pany's affairs, copied from a

Chi-cago journal. "The _{entire story,"} says the Col., "is a wanton and malicious falsehood, and the

par-ties_{circulating it will} be held re

In

_every

variety

and of the

latest

_styles,

there

wiH _{be, my}

_countrymen!

COLD BULLION AGAIN,

"How

can the mint

at

San

Francisco

_{pay more}

_per

ounce

for

_gold

than

_any

other mint

of

the

U. S.?

The

man or

newspaper that makes

such a

claim

_{has departed}

from the

path

of

truth.

The

mints all

nay

the

same price."

Denver

Mining Record.

The above

refers to an item which

_recently

_appeared

in

DO I'ltOSPECTORS PREVARI-CATE?

"Whyis it that prospectors iu general are such infernal liars,"

aked

a mining man a few _days ago of another. Both men Lad growu wrinkled and gray lu the business of _{examining and} report-ingon _{mines for many of}the

lead-ing companies ofthe west.

_"I

have asked myself that question hun value as much as ten ounces and

generally not more than three. They follow the old reliabJa styte of _quartering and _breaking each

lime; their tools _{being shovel,} hammer und mortar, with the

pro-vision of aclem

flor.

A _sample

by this method of five to ten tids t.fore

_niy

_{ba accomplished} by one nmu in a _{day and for this day's} work the miner has a guarantee

against mistake.?, or carelessness at the swelter. For it is assured

that this old fashioned uutho 1 _is.

be"t _preparationofthekind in the mar dreds of _times,"he _continued, "but ket. It iaMaple assugar and

conee in tUis sectiijn. Iti an articleof merit and should he in every household . For

a!e_hyCC. Miiier, Drivict .

Ihave never been able to answer it

The

Advocate

and which

has'

_to

my own satisfaction. The ques

after a'l, the most reliable

atd

correct of anv. tion comes home to me _{with painful}

A full and

complete line

of

Ready

Made

Underwear

for Ladies and

Children,

White

Goods-Pl- ain,

Embroidered,

Checked

and

_Striped,

for Ladies and

Children's

.

Dresses and

Waists.

45-inc-h

White

and

Flowered

_Flouncing.

NOTICE.

In theDistrict Court, )

County of Sierra. (

The Hillsborough Mercantile Company vs.

directness _just now. aud all on

ac-count ofa littla _experience I had sponsible for their action. There

is a libel in _{every sentence.} If Mr. Fosterdid make tho statements attributed to him,he _{6imply lied}

lie,

made _{thorough investigation} both Ly attorney and in _persin mid as _{many people here know,} admitted that _everything was _just as represented and expressed

him-self well satisfied. I went to Chi.

cago on the 31st u'.t.. Tor _{the sole}

a week _ago. A number of miners

The rerrha Gold _{.Mining Company,}

Q lite recently a lot cf f_{iur tons} of _{re van brought} ia to the Ilills-bor-o smelter and was there

sam-pled and _assayed in the usual careful and _painstaking method ofthat concern. The owner of the

located a_quartz claim in an ad

since

been

_{widely copied}

_and,

in _many

_{instances, severely}

criticised.

Our statcmeut

was

to the effect that

better

prices

for

_{gold bullion} could be

ob-tained

in

San Francisco

than

at Denver,

and not

_{that any}

one

_{mint would pay more than}

another.

Asa

matter of

fact

Welch, Edward S. Hunt

. . . uiaiiii.'ii v

jomiugcouniy iu an aunosi iracces-

-rraI;t H. Tml.i.l, Albert _H.Clark,

sible locailtv. The men lironoht '

_Jopli

Underwood, William

,, . , . _, , , , John Brison und Kdwurd H. Iiearil.iey.j

of,

however, fi,f _retunH IikL I I

purpose of answering roster's 'Hiem

assayed. The samples went Mining Company, Kianton C. _Weih,

Ladies

Black Satin

skirt,

embroidered

km

n to _{himself, had} it resackad

and shipped to Denver. His re complaint and was told by his law-- ! very high iu gold, and in answer j

trJ'

ft'

J'j'

jer

thit

no declaration had _i.'eeniio all _{questions relating} to tl WtllUm r _{I'.lair, .toim rtrimin and} Kd-wa-

and

plain.

H. KeardBlev, are hereby nolilied

filed, and he did not think that j mine they manintaiued

they had i li.tt a suit _in debt bv attachment has

_{Ladies Blazer.}

from foHT _{to six feet of gold quartz.} U-e- _{cum i.ivd}

union! ihm in the _for

spring

vf

Uurstock

of

lmmnet .i'Urt l r ltie touuty ol _fcitrra,

territory (( New Mexico, by eaid

plain-tiff. The lliilsh_touIi Merchant lieConp

-and

in

_support

of

the

_position

taken,

The

Advocate

now

states

that

it

referred

to

the

Selby Smelting

and

Lead

Co,

of San Francisco, buyers

of bullion

_{and ore,}

and will acrain

assart

that

more

_{money per}

Handkerchiel

turus showed that the Hilhsboro sample was _absolutely correct and

th.tt he was out over $33 in _goina'

further. This is a fair illustration

of tho liberal policy of our home

institution which is _doing the

ut-most to encourage aud develop the ruiniug resources of this camp, with a wiew _{of course, to its} own benefit an 1 not _from

any aUtumn motives.

With novelties in any would be. I _{requested that}

Mr. Foster would furnis-- me with a _copy of _{his complaint which he}

refused to, and which shows that Foster's _bject whs _{to annoy and}

bar _{rass, and not because he} expect-ed to sustain his suit.

The _{affairs of the company} were

never in _{better condition, and Mr.}

anybj_{recover the aii.ciir.t due the pl.iintiif}

for fc'ood, ware and iiu'rchamii-se- ,

mon-ey lent,iiioi.iy paid,laid out and

expend-ed, and upon account stated,froia the

defei danti", said liemandt _ainountinjr to the sum of two_{Thuiisand Four Umpired}

that would _{average to the} ton. The men were practical miners and knew _{at the time they} were _uttering deliberate falsehood. When

aked

why they did not work such a gooJ claim themselves they called atten-tion _{to the locution of the property} and their own _poverty, The mine was

_situitediu

such au out-o-f the-

-ounce

lor

gold bullion and metv Two iK.ll.trs and tweitv four

Chiffon and Silk

_{and Plain.}

Embroidered

and

Colored

Borders, Linen

handkerchiefs.

Also a full line of

_{Ladies and}

Children's

j cents, togetherwith one thousand dollars

j

especially

gold

retorts

can

be obtained there than

from Foster's course has

tern

due to the Whatever may be thought to the fact that _{he caunct sucrepd m} n

uaiiia'ex; tiiat _{your property} has

U-e-attached ; that_{unless you} enier _vourap-- '

pearance in paid miit "on _or tie fore _the;

lirst _dayof the next October term of j

aaid _{Court,coitiiiicncim; on the} lot h_day I

o.' _{Ctoher, A. I). 1894, judgment}

by i

default thereinwill lie rendered airainst !

contrary, itis a fact _that the tmel _{ireezi'out game which he at}

tors would _prefer tuat all ore _tempted. As to _{the personal}

ermo

brought to them was _{previously statements} you, and _{your property sold to satisfy the}

concerning myself.thev

way plucelhat it would be difficult for a _{poor man} to _{1) anything}with the ore.

'T was solicited to look at the property and moke an examination and at _{my own expense} I did so, hoping that the mine would _prove as rich as _represented. Before go-

-sampled and the contents kno rq.

Underwear.

will receive proppr attention in due time, Unless the unforeseen oc

name.

L.W. LF.NOIR, Clerk.

KOrTtJlA. In such case _they would _sample

any

mint in

the United States.

The reasons

for

this

do

not

reflect

on

_{the government}

assayers, but the

fact is

_they

are obliged

by

hw

to smelt

and

refine

_{separately lots}

_as

they are received.

It

is

un-necessary to

say

that there

is

always

seme

loss in

these

operations and

superfluous to

add that

such loss

docs

not

The Hillsborough Mercantile Company 1

only to determine the correctness of

_that

submitted them and at

their

orn

convenience. rerchu Gold s..Mininu _Coimvinv

"nton

. T 1 _{.i. -} : --1 .

0 I C. Welsh, Ltlward S. Hunt

attempt to deceive me as I had too 1'iank _{H. Tutlul!, Albeit} H. Clatk

large

lot of

Buttons

_of

every

kind, color and

shade

to

match

with

_anything

ever

made.

A vein of 40 _per cent iron ore

carrying fivs _{ounces gold per ton} much experience with mines to biJU,!el"J 1 nderwood, illiain T. Blair.

curs, tho pians of the management will be carried to immediate and successful _completion. We will go right ahead _preparing to irri-gate laud, supplying the _{city with}

water, huiI _{bringing people here} tosettle _{in a way} that will _make Deming oneof _{the most favored} localities in the went."

One party anticipates _putting a

John Brison y Kdward If J

fooled. One f _{them solemnly} as aveiuge is a bonanza, and that s

what _Iludgens A _{Dobbitt hava got} sured me that _everything was as represented. We traveled _nearly and are working night and day iu

100 _{miles from Uutte and reached}

a uod-forsak- en countrv

where

fall on

_{Uncle Sam.}

In

the

rase

of

_{private buyers they are}

able

to

_assay

small

lots and

only

refine when

_{they have}

rniantitv

_{to justify the}

opera-tion.

We have

all

read the

recent accounts of the cleaning

foundry and machiue shop, anoth

Iinittoi

lh(j _{Jersey Lilly mine,}

The fairy tale mines are always somewhere elso, down here hard work, economy aud good manage-ment are needed to _{make paying!}

there was n _{hole iu the ground}

which was tho mine. _{For many}

er a tannery and another a_nursery

En la Corte del _Pestrito, Condado ile Sierra. BS

-Los diehos _{lef. ndientex, Perrha Gol.t}

fining Company, Iilanten C. ,Welsh

hdwaid S _{Hunt, Frank II. Tuthill}

Albert B. _{Clark, Jweph Underwood,} William T. Hlair, John IJriPoii v hdward II. lieardhlev e.4an por lecU notiiieados _{ijue una demands en deiula}

r eaiharo _ha

eido roDienaaita contra

elIon en la Corte _{te Destrito v por el}

Condadode _Sierra, Territorio da Nnevo

Jexico por el ilieho aetor The

HilNbomiitfl, Mercantile _{Con pany por}

la siinia que delicn a el actor

por efeetM, moreancias, dinero prestudo' dmeropaKadoyganlado, y Bohre laante dieha eueuta da los defandientea

on an extensive _{scale, betides other}

enterprisesof considerable impor-tance to _Deming,

m

_at.

_certain

_mints

nm mines, but given these factors the

veins ara rich enough to make

ul-timate success a_certainty.

skins

for ladies

_fancy

_work.

A

_carload

hours I looked for a _ledg in the hole but failed to discover the

slightest trace of it. A few6treaks of ore here and there were visible but that was all. I assure _{you I}

was _{too disappointed to take}

sam-ples. The same has o tout83often

happened me before but I cannot

EVIDENCE OF ASTOUNDING

CRIMINALITY IN THE FINE REGIONS.

A _special from _{St. Cloud, Minn.,} says: There are intimations that

Among the mines this week The

AnvocATE _{notes nothing especially}

how many

thousands of dollars

were recovered

from

_chimneys,

carpets and neighboring

roofs

and gutters.

It

would be

_only

fair

to

assume that

_at

least

as much more was

en-tirely lost,

Such

Joss will

continue and

will

have

to be

"""

oenian.iag sumar.do a la mima d _{(los mil euatro riant!}

noventa d'W Hi8os _{y veinte euitro Mnt.i,} junto eon mil _ixrinieios. n cl! new, or etaitling but all are

work-ing and a _{glance at the output} tabl will show that the production

see _{wuy a miner will} do such

the state senatorial committee. I... . '

propriedad in Hi 10 _emUarH. I,, v

1 - '

wagons

"I Vds. no

things. No _{buyer of} a _property uaeen 811 ananr.e

is _{not diminishing to any alarming} en_{idieho pleito en o' antes el} primero ita del termingrl A ..l... . n. .

'

nLfet-

n-extent.

which for months 1ms been

investi-gating frauds _against the state in _{cutting pines from the school} lauds, will bo _{able to show} aston-fsbin- g

evidence not _only that the

nre _{proximo oomemando el dia}

15 _de

.I"

A D

_18F'.Ji'o

!orfaltan en

everruak;s a purchase without a personal examination so what is the need of lying.

It

is

_jnt

that

the prospector is _totally uno-n-

-It

is reported that the cross cut

borne

_by

the vender of

bullion until the

_government

_{is willing}

to change its methods of

_pup

chase.

The

Advocat

wa

These wagons ... _r,,

coriira VtiS V

fu prop.edaI _vendido

para satiafacer la on the 350 north level of the Suake

iuitid has

deVc-iope-a Urgd vein of SOKHt of tS

fct

that h 19 Ivit!". LKNOIK. j were manufactured _{especially for}

I ry dry

climate and for

_mnnn.;

Se letario.

....

.

"u,"i

limber _pirnten _appropriated mii-lio-of dollars worth mii-lio-of lumber belonging to_{the states, but} in try-ing to cover up their _stealings started 6_{res, which resulted} in

ter-rible loss to life _{and property in}

fine,

Kanabec, Carlton

atd

other rich ore at a distance of over _thirty

feet west from the present drift.

An _important lease was

con-summated this week of the

Bob-tail mine and the work _pumping

Every prospect hole _{owned by him} cun _readily be _imagined as _auothsr Drum Lummon _{and he probably} tells the story of his rich find eo frequently to his associates (hat he firmly believes ithimself. A

pain-ful featureof the

bus-ines-s is that

not desirous of thus

gratuit-ously advertising the business

of the above meutioncd

firm,

but

is now

_{compelled to do}

_so

in

_{justification}

_{of its position}

and

in

answer

to

the numerous

denials of its statement

pub-lished

in

_{Colorado papers.}

FOKFEI1UUE NOTICE. HilUborcugh, N. _M., )

Sept. 7th, 1894. j To C. _{II. Miilette, his Heirs,}

Exe-cutors, Administrators ana Assign?:

Yon _{are hereby n,,titi,d that}

(heunder-signe-d

have expended one hundred _do'.

r. Boa _{are bet'er adapted to} h!s

country than any ever _brought to_{Sierra Couuty.}

HILLSBOROUGH

ML RCA

_NT

_IIP

COMPANY

out and repairing tho workings

will beatones commenced. counties. It 13 charged that the

lumbermen fired the lands which it makes joining nifn chary of going h'ng distance to examine! they improperly eVired to rnmler

Wi!cf f'h'!ft is orer CO _....j-k.-u ,m _{lli.prtri,..,!!,,}

upon

The

Silver

_City

_Eagle

11m cii.okj Joi.es _IajOo l_int.... i :

fftO'n..

feet _{deep already aud is a}Cue _{piece situated} . _{the La--Ani,;. "j}V _.V".

01H

_MADE

Pr.nTTrTV,.

triet. Con..., .. vi ' 1m" I

""'i'li

properties 00the _unenppoited word of au iii.livi.lu.il audiu this manner the fabrication of the first man will measurment of stumpage impnesi.

b!a _{and thereby shut} off _suits which the commission mi!2ht at-

-i'of work. _reV aim _{lerntory tf}

.1ex1en .j.. ...1 , .

;. . " i"""1inariy ilem ri .,! The IliUst,

Pro _Jlercsntile

_Co..ia

"8"fa',J duly riHor.l I _m

An even-hTJT-Uitro

--foprrstrdisad varitageously to "bome p,,i

ii

iu _{rpceiptof tfae}

mce6t stock of

..orvecor.arinai,,! lor _{Com.tv and} custom-mad- e 1 .. .

the Ki. Cloud hotel a_{soout employ}

should have

known

_that

when

you strike one Deming

man

you hit

that

whole town,

and

thought twice

before

pub

lull-ing that Col.

Smith

article.

The

_Populists

come

to the

mints. other prospector who is conscientius

and tells the truth but will

_tot

be bronchi tn i0tulDe ed _{by the commission to ferret out}

der 1.1 or-

-believed "

Fricke snd Guthrie, _{the lucky cases of lumber thieviug has} de-- mill

from _the

great clotMn h'

"

'!

ueD'y _{iviugACo.ofChicago.}

leaser, hsve utrnrk it richer thun _{' I}.1_' 1 _.1 . .

1r... ... nAO_..i. 1 - .I a .... . -

rr''!?i

Mf"V'

iTovi0;,. s

;

tne Kevire,l _Sla.utes of

. i0.". ,.'l!"'1' '"'hiji theaiutiuiit

.. 1

nut

;n

.

o,.

I "

""iu

_tjvj

th

ciri

win

_ci'u

nuuiuri _{Fawnee Charlie, whoever he}

may requir

shipment ru wiioiu llie hai.,e r _{the v..,.,} .. ..

ll..,...l.... o, ₀₁

''

deuce of millions of feet of lumber having been stolen and as eoou as

it was _{cut the lumbermen instruct}

Car

h.la

be, has been _talking to the news

county seat Wednesday,

and

met

and

_{organized and went}

The last car of matte _shipped from _{the smelter weighed between}

home.

Brother Wheeler

_of

examine

_our

au

_{over and}

"South

Bend"

ninetydayaaher,,,,,,;;,,;',

_{you fan or refuse t.MontrilinU}

'''

proportion ol ,u,--

,,

_u

IZ

n

"nMtXMMtCr?--

_?

;T. W. PilOOKS J.O BUOoKbANK C. 1. 15.1KOLA _y.

paper men of 1 Faso aud made

them beiieva that the notorious Kid is dead and buried near No-gale-s,

having sometime since

suc-cumbed to disease. While it is true that none cf

tie

acquaintances ed _employes to burn the ground

over. A _{torch thrust here and}

there into piles of _{topping in such} a_dry season as this starts a

fir thateatr the Mnrnpa eleven and twelve tons and

repre-sented two hundred tons of ore and mill _{concentrates,} shout four hin-dre-d

tons _just as taken from th iBtrw.

Wagons,

and

Hermosa, and

Bro.

_Simpson

of

Tierra

Blanca,

looked quite

a'.itarv

_trotting

off

alone.

mountainous

X