Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-04-22

or the blowing out OF the rocky
beds of the Danube.
CONCERNING HILLSBORO.
From the Albuquerque Morning Demo
crat
About ten DAYS ago two news
paper men from Albuquerque got
off the cars at Lake Valley, and
sauntered around until the stage
came up to take them to Hillsboro,
eighteen miles distant, the county
seat of Sierra county. 1t was a
mild day, and nature was in a
pleasant mood. The stage came
whirling up, and the newspaper
men got inside. 1t was an old
fashioned Concord coach, with
four smart horses and the tradi-
tional driver with his long whip
and his sharp expletives. Mr..
William Matthewson is the owner
of this line, and it is first class in
all lis appointments. The stages
are of the very best, 30 are the
drivers and so are the horses. We
sail away from Lake Valley In fine
style, and up hill and down dale
we 60 through barren bills strewn
thickly with mineralized float rock,
until we come down abruptly into
the beautiful valley of the Rio
Percha, where Hillsboro lies
The town is most lovely in it's
location. Far to the west towers
in endless line the serrated crest of
the famous Black Range, with It's
streaks of snow and Its dark blue
filing, giving a chance for the
Imagination to picture beautiful
things, and even the dull capital
ist to fire his mind with the
thoughts of gold and silver. Be
tween Hillsboro and the Black
Range, and all the country about
there is a vast succession of hills
and valleys, which seem to be in
terminable when you start in to go
through them, and in these is the
richest and largest gold deposit in
America. But of this, more here
after. The main street In Hills
boro, with It's fringe of trees, just
ready to burst into bloom, is so
beautiful that it attracts the artis.
tic eye, and this impression is
deepened Oh a closer acquaintance.
The clear, cold waters of the Rio
Percha ripple through ths town,
and the brown slopes around, with
their suggestion of tho precious
ores waiting to be dug out, give
one a very pleasant and hopeful
sensation as he enters the place.
Here, in this little town of Hills
boro, with the crystal stream run
ming through. and the gold rlobed
hills all around, The Democrat
predicts will be the greatest min
ing boom since Leadville, and it
will come within yea.. The
world, the men of money, the pros
pectors, the adventurers, have no
conception of the vast undevelop-
ed resources of this section, and, 1t
they had, there would be such u
rush there as would compel the
railroad company, from sheer self
interest, to complete the lS mile
gap between Lake Valley and
Hillsboro, and give the human
flood quick entrance into the
new mining field. The Democrat
does not propose in this article to
go into details (that will be post
poned day or two), bat we desire
to say that from information de-
rived from careful observation,
there is no other point in the west
where there is such an accumula-
tion of precious ores, so extensive
and SO high in grade as in the
Hillsboro district. III the facts
concerning this section are
properly advertised to the world
the Creede excitement will be re-
peated within year, Hlllsboro
will become great mining camp
and millions Of capital will be in
vested in and around there. These
are not idle words. The writer
has been over nearly ever gold aud
silver belt In the west, and knows
whereof he speaks. Take a
diameter of seven miles running
through Animss peak, as the
centre of the circle and within that
radius there is enough gold to pay
all the national debts OF the world.
And there has only been bare
beginning in prospecting this
country. A few mining companies
who have stuck to.their work have