The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-12-01
white Oaks ald.LilCalnlCO.
Important Facts, bFiSures,
and Statistics.

1000 people, M - situaled III lllc
western rgrt of Lincoln County,
New Mexico. 81 miles by the mail
road rom Carthage, the terminn"
of Inc San Pedro coal mine branch
of the 4. r. as. F. r. r., 1913
miles from Socorro, ON the main
line. 1875 miles from FL Paso. Tex
as. and 40 from Lincoln, the Co.
seat.
White Oaks is the largest town
in the county, aud the scat o! an
important supply trade. 1t is fine
lv situated in u valley, among tho
.nurs of the Carlo range, at an ell
eYation of G,470 feet above sea
level. 1t has tive religious organ
iT.tions, Methodist and Cengrega'
tiopalist. a large and prosperous
nuhlic school. and n ffourishlng
Academy two weekly newspa'
ners. oight prosperous mercantile es-
t.,,I;shwonts. two hotels, II bill
lard hall. three blacksmith shops,
two also wagon shops,l one TN
sLon two roofing establishments,
two livery stables, two meat mar
k.ts. three hotels, three physician"
three law Offices. one dentist one
90 stamp gold mill in operation. at
40 Huntington Centrifugal mills,
and a 10 stamp gold mill.
me great ~'lomcsIak. G"ld Vines
or,. one mile y. ~. of the centre ~
thn town. and around them are Il
dnzen rich mines, less developed.
Almost ;loining the town ON tue
4 F.. arc incxhaustiblc mlaas "i
coal, VARYING from bltumIn"H" I"
49,, o~nthracite. From foor t.
ssv.n miles y. w. of tho town, III
tLn Lone Mountain region, are eX-
tousiye bodies of magnetic ron
ores, of excellent quality and high
Grade. Twenty mics Sou'h ana
snutn west lie the silver lead mines
If tho B,nilo mining district, the
rich pold ni.es OF the Nogal min
inc district. the Parsons Camp.
and the copper (%Sliror o'Hrlrt.
nres OF the west side.
IIn town is nbundantly su.plled
w,,h water wood is a%Han"aHt il
tn,. leo,.hil,a, and timber III th'
mountain ranges.
White OAKS has n daily m7'' It
Carthage, @ n the railway, s"d L
Fl. Stanton, 81 lies senEhoa't. zoe
II is the pre6cnt ooIoctlvc r"lnt "
the Chicago, St. L"rla.t - i'aa" !;
K now building from III i'"'". Tex
ana i, destined |" be- =" ImPo't'N
mint upun mat f"ilwA! "he" II !
rn,nn,yt,d to Kansas CITY. "a tn,
NECESSARY lin in the Ah"r'cat r"a'I
bic uuu h,."ccn NH'c'-" an" "'
CIV of MeA:c"
iii. County or Lincoln. IN til.
ort eastern oornor 81 NC" Sex
GO. is 95O miles il ek;ro'n" lo"&''
and $50 IN uxlrc,Ae breadth. an
contains 2I,450 Siuar" 'n''eA' !
i diyilVd, IRON n0r,h :" 9"Htn' u
,t,nI R,o Pecos.nn UOrtant strc"nl
wh,rn receives within tho count.
numerous tributaries arising II Ia
,aN SHE of the Great itanEs.
Tno western pars oi li,o Count
il divided by m"unt"IhS' loc"''
krnwu as the Gaiiin"S, JicariIl"S
lnrizos. Sierra Et>nc"', &c, n.
nnrtious of the Great Aount"i
Rnnge dividing Eastern New Ae'
leo. The peaks OF those rang,
x,rv from.Gallinas and JACK
peak. about 5000 feet, 10 Car'%'
5000, Nogal, 10000. "nA o'err
Blanco, $1,000.
The population of the Count
wos 600 in 1853, now about5'oV
The towns. otler than " hitc Oak.
are Lincoln, San Patriotic, tlrhAc'
Weed. Dowlin' Mill, Gnlcna' 10
we'll. Seven Rivers, Three k,vef
Bonito, Nogal, Parsons al" L""'
out.
Two-thirds of tins County col
sists OF fine grazing lands man.
waII wntered, and STOCK d MI
9oo 600 head Of cattle, all hGFGa'
of 1000 rcr cent, ia . ye"rS' l.
Angora goat has made HI, 4pry.'
1u.o IN the mountains OF lnuco.
County. ANA he is here t" 'Iay. J.
NOES where nothing c'so wi'I,a'
is exceedingly p%roitablS to- h
a,,sr There are but t>w -he'
in the county, about $1,000 lorH
and mules, and brrros' 'AHs'
,Jnckass cs,) like the sands "t D
seoshore tor mnltiWse
Cn the renasco, Ruiooso' bo'
C,Nau Rivers, bIa