Twelve hundred and forty-eight dollars…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Manchester; Miss A. M. Duffy, Jacksonville; Capt. French, Alma; Con. P. Sullivan, Cooney; T. B. Pheby, Georgetown ; Israel King, Mimbres ; J. L. Barnett, Capt. John Crawford, Kingston; A. G. Wilcox, El Paso; Bud Williams, Deming; Miss Mary Portwood, Texas; O. C. Daniel, Texas. Twelve hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety cents has been subscribed thus far for the Fouth of July celebration. More will be added. Dick Neff has started a menagerie on a small scale. He now has two bald eagles, sev- eral small alligators and a pair of antelopes. ( 42 ) ORE SAMPLE AT BANK A beautiful sample of chloride and bromide of silver ore is on exhibition at the First National Bank. The ore was taken from a depth of 46 feet on the Rescue mine between Pinos Altos and Central. The ore is increasing in size and value with every foot sunk on the mine ; at 22 feet the first class ore assayed 130 ounces; at 30 feet 186 ounces; at 40 feet 977 ounces; at 46 feet it runs 1382 ounces per ton in silver. The property is owned by Judge J. Crockett Givens of Central and promises to make him a bonanza prince.