The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-21
White Oaks and Lincoln CO.
Important Facts, Figures,
and Statistics.

" people, anu II s''""Vc" III '"S
western part af Lincoln County,
New Mexico, 81 miles by the mail
road from Carthage, the terminus
of he San Pedro coal mine branch
of the n. T. Il S. f. r. r., 103
miles from Socorro, on the main
line, 1875 miles from FL Paso. Tex
rs, 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 II valley, among the
spurs Of the Carlo range, at MI ell
ovation OF $40 feet above sea
level. 1t has two religious organ
izations, Methodist and Congrega-
tioualist, a large and prosperous
public school. and one ffourishlng
Academy two weekly newspa-
pers, eight prosperous mercantile es-
adjustments. two hotels, IN bill
lizard hall, three blacksmith shops,
two also wagon shopS,) enc 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.
30 9 Huntington Centrifugal mills.
and a 10 stamp gold mill.
The great ~jIomestake Gold Mines
are one mile y. ". of the centre Of
the town, and around them are II
dozen rich mines, less developed.
Almost adjoining the town, on the
S. T.. are inexhaustible mines OF
coal, varying from bitumlnous to
scmi-anthracite. From four to
seven miles n. w. of the town, in
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 t.
TT. Stanton, 81 miles southeast
1t is the present objective point OF
the Chicago, st. Louis IL ri Paso X.
X now building from FL Paso. Tex,
and is destined To be an important
point upon that raj way when it Is
completed to Kansas City, a. the
necessary link in the shortest posi-
bic line between Chicago and the
CITY of Mexico
The County Of Lincoln, in the
seuth-eastern corner of New MeNi-
CO., is $50 miles III extreme length,
ana 100 i'll extreme breadth, AID
contains "a, 400 square miles. 1t
is diviIed, from north to south, by
the Rlo Pecos, AM I uortant stream,
which receives within the county
numerous tributaries arising in the
east side OF tilc Great Range.
Tlre western part OF the Comfy
is divided by mountains, locally
known as the Gullinas, JicArillas,
Narizos, Sierra Blancos, &c, ali
portions of the Great Mountain
Range dividing Eastern New Mex
leo. The peaks of these ranges
vary from-Gallinas and JacE
Peak, about 5000 feet, to Garlic,
S, 200, Nogal, 10000, and Sierra
Blanco, $4,000.
The population of the County
was 5000 in 1885, now about7, O0o
The towns, other than " Aitc Oaks,
are Lincoln, San, PatriNo, ile4tar7,
Weed, Dowlin's Mill, Galeua l,o~
well, Seven Rivers, Three Rivers,
Bonito, Nogal, Parsous aun i,"s
out.
Two-thirds of the Comfy con
sists OF fine grazing lands. main.y
well watered, and stocked Wiz.
800, 900 head of cattle, an l"creas'
OF 1000 PER cent. in . years TIE
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 h:
owner. There + but tew sheet
in the county, about $4,000 horse
and mules, and bucro-, ,Angi.
Jackass es,) like Jhc sands of th'
seashore tor multitude
On IL renasco. Ruidoso, Boni
t., Hondo, Seven Rivers, Blacl
River, and Pecos, there are the iii
- a., ,.,lt,rol Ioplc Fin,