White Oaks golden era. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 188?-18??, 1884-02-07
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The house is very nicely furnished.
The parlor has Brussels carpet, mirrors
from floor to ceiling, sofas, sofa chairs,
elegant lace curtains, &c &c. The bed
rooms are also Well furnished with fine
bed d-sieads, with springs and hair mat
trcsscs, dressing cases aud ~ardrobcs.
Thcyoung people Of the neighb, rhood
have rooms at their disposal, which
they are not backward in usinm, the
night we were there being the third
dance i'll succession. through the kind.
ness of Mr. Bennet Howell and Mr..
Bolton--employoes of the ranch--your
correspondent was introduced, and
tripped the Slight filntastc' TO his
hearts conteut
The most amusing thing to me was
Mr.. John Chisums bed, to-wn: A
thin mattrcSs-that looked like news
paper mans pocket -book-and three
'mirs of blankets. These he spread out
Oh the floor by the side of the bed,
which Is described above. On noiic-
ing oGr look of establishments hc ex-
planned by say ing, that be did not pro
pose to 60 back on a bed that he had
slept on for 4O years. SO rests one Of
the cattle kings of New Mexico. Sur
funded by all that wealth can pro-
cure, he can not forget the habits of q
life time.
We left Mr.. Chisum's ranch, in con-
pany with II, =. Scgr,st and WIN. Du-
ford, for the formers rancl on one of
the seven rivers. Mr.. Segrest has
about 1000 head of cattlean splen-
did ranch. Twelve years ago the In
dians stole all his stock. Since that
time he has accumulated the above,
aud we venture t, say that $60,UO0
could not buy him ont. We found
Mr.. Segrest pleasant gentleman AMI
regret that our stay with him was so
short
Seven Rivers, the place where the
Gazette had formative ,borers nlassa-
cred, is qrict little place ; the town,
as it is called, naists of two stores aud
one saloon The stores are one mi,e
apart, and each place thinks its loea
tion just the spot for town; we heard
talk of town site being laid out at
each place. We met q number of
| pleasant people and all seemed to re
gret the killing of the single Mexican,
which was done in drunken row.
Mr.. NJ. A. Upson is located at tho
lower store he is al old journalist
and / .ccived us heartily BY referring
TO his adj, which will appear in tho
ERA, his friends will learn the business
i'll which he is engaged.
From Seven Rivers we drove to Mr..
Gartlncr's ranch, and from there we
made the lower Penasco, being IS
miles between ranches. which seemed
65 to Us. We reached the sinks of
water at dark; it was then six miles
to the first occupied cabin. Thu roads
were bad, consequently our progress
was SOW. The canon is narrow in
places, and at the first crossing our
horse refused 10 60 although it was
straight and narrow road" he would
not "enter in We coaxcd and per-
suaded, said ''hades" Gold siyle) a num-
Der of times, but it was of no use. We
sat down aud reflected upon the hard
ships of ''mortals here below" and
wondered if we had better scrape away
the snow, and roll up in our blankets,
tired aud hungry; Or show that horse
that we did not want him TO 90 where
we wero afraid 10. To teach him IL
lesson, we plunged in and led him
safely over. A short time afterwards
we reached MI Buck powelPs ranch, +,
remaining until morning. The Penasco
, j. fine strt am, and a number of good
, ranch S are located on it. Messrs. Bryon
~ Gunter, Mr.. VIM Matthews and T.
g. Tillotson are among the good ones.
We stopped over night with the latter
gentleman, in his bachelor quarters; he
made our stay pleasant, aud we were
lcath to leave him.
We next visited the Fcls, and stop
ped over night with Johnnie Boil.
+, ton, whom we found IN charge of tho
culinary department of Mr.. Emil
Frilzs ranch. Mr.. Fritz, j. j. Dolan
and j. A. LaRue, each have locations
, on the Felis. This is n fine cattle
cmntry, is well protected and has
plenty Of good grass and fine running
Z water.
Our next stopping place was of Mr..
+ Charles Fritz's, about eight miles from
Line In. Every one IN Lincoln county
is--or ought to acquainted with
+. this whole-soulcd gentleman. To say
A that we were kindly treated, would
, poorly express the good cheer that we
received. After Que and half hours
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