The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-02-16

the charter of the FL Paso IL White
Oaks road, and then expended over
$40, 900 in cash for coal lands
around us, unless they had resolved
to build a road to that coal Those
roads need fuel /; the coal is here (;
the grade is easy the bank vanlts
of the country are bursting with
ready money. We are sure to get
n road. Moreover, will the y.
7. e S. +. people be content with
the Rio Grande Valley Will they
leave the coal and timberand graz
ing resources and precious metals
of Lincoln County to drift into 9TH
er channels, and enrich other roads,
when by pioneer rightly right of
hardy enterprise and courage, dis
played in building their main line,
if not by right of natural location,
that wealth belongs to them| We
will probably get two roads. Again,
is the splendid ambition and enter
prise of Albuquerque to bear no
fruit Or is she destined to carry
through her narrow guage project,
and by reaching out to White Oaks
one of the arms Of that system,
build the first section of a road
connecting her with the Cult, which
would insure her becoming an in
land city of real commercial i'm
portance? l would also mention
Las Vegas, asthis section has done
no little to give her the Importance
she has hitherto enjoyed !; but Las
Vegas is asleep, and we will not
disturb her slumbers.
1t would be long to tell OF the
grazing resources Of our County
how the overflow of the great i'm
migration into Texas is benefiting
us-bringing with it herds Of cat.
tie to settle upon our streams ; and
how White Oaks Is the natural
supply point and eutrepot for this
industry. [ have not time to speak
adequately of the gold and silver
and copper and lead found al
around us. Baxter Mountain is
scanned with vein after vein Of fine
gold bearing quartz. 1t is a com
mon remark to hear old miners.
who have been all over this coun
try and Old Mexico, say, they new
er saw a camp where so much golC
was found on the surface as il
White Oaks-and we have had NJ
deep mining here yet.
But let us not wander from the
3 dedication of this connections hal
to the public uses of White Oaks
1t is, we are told, for religious, ed
vocational and lecture purposes;
church, school house and lectur,
3 hall. Did you ever reflect on the
meaning Of the phrase, West
. war; the star of empire takes it
way? What the word "empire'
meansl 1t is the sway of the force
that underlie and make. our higl
civilization. What more potent
than religion, education, the meet
ing together Of the people in publ.
places? The Mayhower landed
, our fathers on the Atlantic Coast
wilderness then. They planted
> churches, school houses, publ
meeting Decentralization, pre-
= gress, happiness sprang up aroun'
+ them. Further west was the vii
, derness. The brave ranks Of tn
9 pioneers pushed into it. They can
, ried with them the precious infu
ences of early teachings, Of happ
d religious homes, which
y "Pious thoughts had swept,
And holy prayers made clean"
TThey,in turn, built churches, schOc
u houses, public meeting places
/ And so, westward went the potter
induences-trom the shore, first, t
- wild regions of Virginia, the
Ohio and Kentucky, then the Mi
sissippi River-ever in the val
guard is found the church, tn
o school house, the free intercours
u of the DeODle {: and ever in the