The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28
white Oaks and Lincoln Co..
Important Facts, Figures,
and Statistics.

western part oil Llncolh county,
New Mexico, 81 miles by the mail
road irom;Carthage, tho terminus
of he San Pedro coal mine branch
of the A. 7. a. S. +. L. r., 1O3
miles from Socorro, on the main
line, 1856 miles from Fl Paso, Tex
as, and 40 from Lincoln, the Co.
seat.
White Oaks is the largest town
in the county, and the seat OF an
important supply trade. 1t is fine
ly situated in a valley, among the
spurs of the Carlo range, at an ell
ovation OF $40 feet above sea
level. 1t has two religious organ
ixstions, Methodist and Congrega-
tionalist, a large and prosperous
public school, and one ffourishing
Academy two weekly newspa-
pers, eight prosperous mercantile es-
taulishments, two hotels, one bill
lizard hall, three blacksmith shops,
1.-TWO also wagon shopS,) IL tin
shop, two roofing establishments,
two livery stables, two meat mar
kets, three hotels, three physicians
three law offices, one dentist, one
20 stamp gold mill in operation, al
so 2 Huntington Centrifugal mills.
and a 10 stamp gold mill.
The great Homestake Gold Mines
are one mile N. w. of the centre of
the town, and around them are a
dozen rich mines, less developed.
Almost adjoining the town, on the
S. E.. are inexhaustible mines OF
coal, varying from bitumlnous to
communicable. From four to
seven miles N. W. of the town, iii
the Lone Mountain region, are ex-
tensive bodies of magnetic iron
ores, of excellent quality and high
grade. Twenty miles south and
south west lie the silver lead mines
of the Bonito mining district, the
rich gold mines OF the NOgal min
ing district, the Parsons Camp,
and the copper (%silver bearing)
ores of the west side
The town is abundantly supplied
with water !; wood is abundant in
the foothills, and timber in the
mountain ranges.
White Oaks has a daily mail to
Carthage, ON the railway, and to
Fl. Stanton, 81 miles southeast
1t is tho present objective point of
the Chicago, st. LOUIS & FL Paso R.
K now building from FL Paso. Tex,
and is destined to be IN important
point upon that railway when it Is
completed to Kansas City, as the
necessary link in the shortest posi-
BILE line between Chicago and the
CITY Of McX:co.
The County of Lincoln, in the
southeastern corner of New MeXi-
CO., is $50 miles in extreme length,
and 100 in extreme breadth, and
contains "a, $50 square miles. 1t
is divided, from north to south, by
the Rio Pecos, All in portant stream,
which receives within the county
numerous tributaries arising in the
east side of the Great Range.
The western part OF the County
is divided by mountains, locally
known as the Gallinas, Jicarillas,
Carlos, Sierra Blancos, &c, all
portions of the Great Mountain
Range dividing Eastern New Mex
leo. The peaks of these ranges
vary from-Gallinas and Jacks
Peak, about 5000 feet, to Carlo,
-, 200, Nogal, 10000, and Sierra
Blanco, $1,000.
The population of the County
was 5000 in 1855, now about8 5000
The towns, other than White Oaks,
are Lincoln, San Patriclo, Pichaco,
Weed, Dowlin's Mil, Galena, Kos
well, Seven Rivers, Three Rivers,
Bonito, Nogal, Parsons and LOOK
out.
Two-thirds of the County con
nists OF fine grazing lands, mainly
well watered, and stocked with
800, 900 head of cattle, an increase
of 1000 per cent. in 5 years. The
Angora goat has made his appear
ance in the mountains OF Lincoln
County, and he is here to stay lie
ranges where nothing else willard
is exceedingly profitable TO his
owner. There are but few sheep
in the county, about $4,000 horses
and mules, and b%urros, (Anglia
Jackass es,) like the sands Of the
seashore for multitude,
On the PsraSco, Ruidoso, Boni
to, Hondo, Seven Rivers, Black
River, and Pecos, there are the I'm
est of agricultural lands. Fine
farms have been opened on all
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