The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-01
worked out that this system is

! posed, in that the lodes have a nor
therly and southerly course, and
not a northwesterly course as was
supposed from the general course
of the porphory system to which
the Homestake lead belongs,
and in conformity to which the
most of Baxter Mountain appears
to have been staked, and of course
without discovery being had, ex.
cepting where parties chanced to
break the surface IN the neighbor-
hood of the crossing of the mineral
lied leads. The mineral system
referred to so far as at present dis
closed, consists of five magnificent
gold bearing quartz veins, which
come to the surface and are exposed
in Baxter Gulch. These discov-
cries having been made, and the
courses OF the veins being across
the courses of the staked claims in
the Gulch, it only remained to
Messrs. Dye e. Patterson to either
give away their discoveries, or, to
locate their discoveries and to call
upon parties with whom they came
in apparant conflict to show
their discoveries in the line of
of their leads, and in case they
could SO do then to claim their
own locations as upon cross veins.
This latter course they followed,
and their action would seem to
have the sanction of law. They
had contracted we are informed,
with Prof Glass to begin milling
their ores, soon as he shall have
completed the present clean up.
But no sooner had they began to
move ores, than the court was put
in motion, and the ore replevened,
and such a course we are informed,
is to be persisted in until they de-
sist from further attempts to oper-
ate their mines. Being men of
limited means they must embrace
the inevitable, and accept the issne.
They however are but Individuals.
and individuals come and 90 they
may dispose of their rights and
vanish, But it is OF the camp and
its interests that we wish to speak.
and about which we are mostly
concerned. 1t would appear that
in the future instead Of being re-
galed by the musical tread of stamp
mills, we must be satisfied with the
pompous oratory of lawyers, and
the potent enunciations of courts.
and let business and the people
take care of themselves.
Such then appears to be the
present outlook. For three wears
this camp has been calling itself a
mineral camp, Each year the
ground has been mostly restaked,
and in cases where assessment
work was done it served only to
make the claim holder poorer and
the camp none the richer. Unless
the consequences of such course
as has been pursued in the past is
impre ssed upon the attention OF
the people, restaking without dis
covery, and the taking up of unoc-
npied ground by driving stakes
will continne, and the foundation
for more general and more pro-
longed embarrassment to this camp
will be laid.
Let the people consider these
matters. Few words to the wise
ought to suffice.
We write and publish the above
with no feeling of special love for
Mesars. Dye & Patterson, or of af- |
lection or ennity toward those
with whom they come in conflict
The LEADER is indebted to neither
parties, and if in want of favor
would apply to neither, but it is
Interested in the camp. Dye, Pat |
terson, Glass, Chandler, ct al NAV |
come and 60 but the camp will !
roll on forever, and we have attach
ed our fortune to the camp, not to
individuals. Men to-day potent,
may tomorrow be impotent. We
wish to see strife and especially
!itigatione stopped, and our people
interested IN Baxter Mountain
cease wrangling, else ere long an
Otero, Whitney episode may en-
sue. A handful ofmen brought on
the late rebellion II tool ,r;lI;ou