The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-10-28
Another Rich Pima in the Eogals.

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The conviction had pretty gener-
ally settled down into a belief that
about all the FREQ gold to be found
in this great mineral belt was cen
tired around Baxter and Lone noun
tains, at this place. Placer gold,
it was true, had been found in some
Of the gulches of the Nogal and
White mountains, but with only
one or two exceptions had free gold
ever been found in any of the leads
in that locality, and then scarcely
sufficient to cause a ripple of local
excitement. Many had come, made
a few locations, and gone seeming
ly to more inviting fields, but a
few patient spirits stayed and toiled
on with but indifferent success.
Among these was M. M. Gaylord,
one Of the first prospectors who
pitched their tents in Nogal canon
over two years ago. He has stuck
to the camp through all its ups and
downs, its enthusiasms and dcpres-
sions. A few weeks, ago, running
short of grub, he came to White
Oaks and offered an interest in his
mines to any one who would supply
him with his winters grub. This
proposition was accepted by one Of
our merchants, q wagon was loaded
with the necessary supplies, and
the two started for the mountains,
Arriving there and looking over
the ground the man Of meat and
molasses concluded he had struck
a hard bargain and took up his
merchandise and moved back to
town, leaving the miner to forage
off the country. Left to himself he
went to work in earnest and soon
showed his shaft down from 20 to
27 feet at which point he pocketed
g few specimens Of tho ore and
again came to town laughing to
himself all the way in. He at once
found his way to the aforesaid mor-
chants store and exhibited the
specimens from his mine literally
alive with the yellow, precious
metal.
This is no fancy sketch written
up to boom any body or any camp,
but the plain, straight truth, as we
speak from certain knowledge. We
will in a short time have specimens
Of the ore on exhibition at the
LEADER office that will convince the
most incredulous. The ore is appar-
emily as rich as any we have yet
seen from the South Homestake
mine, but the wires of gold are
finer and Of a reddish yellow which
has no doubt been impaired by the
oxide of iron with whieh it is as
ISOLATED.
The lode is called the Rockford,
lies less than q half mile west from
the town Of Galena, in Nogalcanon.
The vein is over four feet wide and
showed but little mineral on top,
but atthe depth of twenty-two feet
before the free gold was found-it
assayed nineteen ounces in gold.
"A yet the lead mattoris very much
decomposed and the PARTICLES of gold
can be seen in the fine quartz as it
is being taken out.
AS deVelopement progresses
throughout this district just SO
surely is our camp coming to the
front.
Jose Martinez, an employee Of
Mr.. Walz on the Carizozo rancho,
while lifting a plank from the
ground last Monday, was bitten on
snake one Of his fingers BY a rattle
snake which was concealed under
it. The afflicted party sucked
his finger, the blood came freely,
he then applied a poultice of tobac-
co aud soda. No swelling ensued
and the party proceeded to his work
not loosing any time or suffering
any illness, when many, from the