The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-05-26
NUMBER 81
@From the Fort Scott Kansas Monitor.
1WOAEaiIS EOSds. to Willie Oaks.

Many people in this city are; ia.
miliar, with the name w lnte Oaks,
a splendid town III New Mexico,
which is Just now developing glorl.
Gus prospects, ana promises to be-
cHne one OF the most prosperous,
thrlying and important cities in the
great southwest. A number OF
gentlene en OF means, citizens of
Fort Scott, became interested IN
White Oaks as early as 1850, and
they are nowyin tar way to be.
come wealthy from their invest
ments. Some OF these gentlemen
are part owners in valuable mines,
and others own property in the
city, which has increased wonder
fully in value within the past two
years, and particularly since the
place has become the prospective
crossing of two railroads. OF these
the Atchison, Topeka ", Santa Fe
company proposes to build from
Carthage 70 White Oaks, the sur
vey ot which is now beng made.
Another road is in course OF laying
out between Albuquerque and
White Oaks, and still another from
ii IuSo 10 White Oaks, which Is
being built by the Southern Pa
citic.
There will be a grand boom Just
the moment either of these lines
strike III there and opens up the
mineral resources OF the surround
ing country. ~ gentleman OF wide
experience in the west and south
west remarked to the Monitor yes.
terday, that OF all the splendid op
enlngs tor speculation and invest
ment with which he WAS familiar,
no other place approached White
Oaks in the number and variety of
opportunities. In the surrounding
mountains magnificent gold ard
silver mines abounded, and were
already being protitably worked,
and the 1lhest iron mines in the
west poured out their wealth of
ores in the greatest protusion At
the present time three gigantic
stamp mills were in operation, and
an immense amount of capital was
being invested in various mining
enterprises, yet they were in their
infancy as compared with what
would be done in this directions AZ
noon rs the railroads were complet
ed.
White Oaks contains 1000 IN
habitants, it is advantageously sit
uated, Is the largest cityi Lincoln
county and is destined to become
a busy, busting, thrifty and sue
cesstul city of inexhaustible wealth
and resource. Men with little
means can probably make money
faster and acquire wealth quicker
III White Oaks than i'll auy other
place in New Mexico to day, and
new comcrs are tlecklng in there
III great numbers. Another feature
OF western business, which will
contribute largely to the future of
White Oaks, is The stock business.
and with the advent OF railroads it
will become the shipping center for
the best and laagest scope OF stock
grazing territory in the southwest.
1t appears strange to Kansas ears
to hear of a county larger than anv
OF the New England states, yet
Lincoln county, in which White
Oaks occupies central position,
contains $1,000 square miles of
land. 1t Is 10 miles one way by
from l3O to 10 the other, beng Of
irregular shape, and every acre has
its wealth and use.
When one considers that nature
has placed coal veins over five feet
in thickness within three miles of
one OF the largest deposits OF iron
ore III the country. and that rich
gold and silver mines are adjacent,
1t does not require deep acumen or
business experience to see, in the
near future, the wonderful wealth
producing results that will follow
from a combination OF these re-
sources when railroads render the
developments possible. Yet this
Is the exact situation at White Oaks
and anv man who goes there to-day
and takes hold with vim is bound
to become affluent.
One of the principle men engag-
ed IN the construction of the rail,
road to White Oaks, Mr.. Morris r.
Locke, OF Jerseyville, H., is ar old
acquaintance of many residents of
Fort Scott. The gentlemen IN the
State Bank here say that he never
r.