The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-08-16
NUMBER Il.
MISTAKEN

There is little reason why Lin
coin County. n. NJ, should suffer
from the hard times. There are
plenty Of good mines which need
only to be worked enercetically To
bring plenty Of money into circula-
ton. We fear that a great desire
to sell is the cause of any lethargy
that tins section may experience. --
Rocly Nountain Mining Rer5e'r.
We know Of no reason for de
scribing Lincoln county as suffer
ing from "had tines" in compar-
ison with the country at large.
Business is quiet throughout the
United States. With steel rails at
&3l per ton, and pig iron at less
than the cost Of production, the
business interests of Pennsylvania
are less to be congratulated than
those Of Lincoln county. With
mills on half time, and operatives
reduced to less than an average of
Il dollar day, the business inter
csts of New England are worse off
than those Of New Mexico. The
beef Of Lincoln county brings a full
price in the market 4 nation
must eat, and the men who can
feed it are not likely to grow poor.
No man in Lincoln county need 90
to bed hungry, or live in rags, and
many in the "highly civilized
East, with its abundant wealth
and power, must do both.
The mines of Lincoln county are
butone Of the many interests which
sustain its people now. and give
them promise of wealth far in the
future.
The mining interest is quiet, and
for this there are several reasons.
III adapted machinery erected here
by ignorant enthusiasts, has done
incalculable harm. This is not II
strange experience. Our Denver
contemporary must know that the
canons Of Colorado are dotted with
Just such failures as those of White
| Oaks.
The mines of Lincoln county
haye been developed to the limit
of local capital. Energetic work"
will produce ore, but unless means
of reducing the ore to bullion are
present, the mere production Of
ore effects nothing in the direction
of putting "plenty Of money in
circulation" Our smelling ores
are a hundred and more miles from
railway, and their transport to re
duction works leaves no profit to
the miner. These classes of ores
can be produced abundantly in
Lincoln county'whenever we have
railway communication with the
ore markets. There is no very
, general desire to sell, though mines
and prospects can be bought IN our
/, mining camps, and at prices much
below their value in Colorado or
any other mining section well fur
nished with MILLS and railways.
The owners Of our best properties
prefer, however, itpossible, to hold
on to their mines, and eventually
, realize in their own persons the re-
ward Of their hardships. enterprise
I and patience.
3 Our coal, and iron ores Of course
7rwaft tire advert uif tfrc l-;tifwTtttl} lfwTtl'
7 and we do not expect Il "boom y
' until we hear the scream Of the
{ iron steed.
But we are not the victims of d
= "lethargy' by any means. Nor
were there not Il mine in Lincoln
county would we be so very badly
u off. Not a mine in Lincoln county
; is yet subject to taxation, as they
+ arc exempt for 10 years from The
i date of location by Territorial law
: And yet the assessment OF the
county for 81 is $2,715, 900, and i
is increasing at the rate of fifty pc
f. cent Dvr auDuml : communit,