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

rlcher every day, Dut IL makes an
outsider sick to see the neglected
opportunities lying thick all around
opportunities that will fill any
man's pockets with gold that will
seize them.
A very notable feature OF this
Hiilshoro country is that when the
mining excitement is fairly started,
gold resources are SO strong and
lasting that there will bo chance
for everybody, and years hence
when the scum that collects on the
surface of typical mining camp
has boiled off and disappeared,
there will he left fine prosperous
city on the Rio Percha, secure in
the confidence that comes from
inexhaustable gold fields, profitably
employing many thousands of men.
1t is tempting field for the
wrieer, but, as we said before, we
will give no details in this Issue,
but will say something of the peo-
pie in and around Hillsboro. Two
such men as w. s. Hopewell and
Nick GALES in the development OF
section are worth more than a
thousand ordinary citizens content
to run along in the. ruts of their
little private enterprises with no
thought of anything above or be-
yond. These two men realize the
magnificent the unequaled op-
portunities, and they intend to
make the most of them, and there
by give their section a start that
will permit it to feel its own
strength and result in boom that
will pulsate throughout the entire
country. Mr.. Hopewell is the we'll
known manager of the Las Anlmas
Land & Cattle company, and he is
one of the shrewdest and most
enterprising business men IN this
country. His experience is cos
mopolitan, and record OF his life
would read like romance.
Largely identified with Hillsboro
and the surrounding country, and
thoroughly informed as to the
wonderful resources there, Mr..
HopewelI believes, with The Dem
ocrat, that the next big mining
boom will have its headquarters IN
HllIsboro. He is man who
builds up communities, and has
such practical and sagacious views
that he is, in his quiet way, and
without intending 10 be, leader
in every enterprise he is ssso-
ciated with. When Hillsboro
comes to be a town OF fifteen or
twenty thousand people, year or
30 hence, w. S. Hopewell will be
one of the leading spirits then as
now. Nick GALES, he is one OF the
best men, and one of the best
known men In New Mexico. In
the prime of sturdy young man
hood, he has demonstrated the fact
that he is one OF the strongest
practical forces in the development
of the vast mineral resources OF
Sierra county. Nick has been
talked of for governor of New
Mexico frequently, but he despises
such paltry considerations as Office
holding, in view OF the immensely
bigger thing be has now in hand,
and we don't blame him. He is
general manager OF tie great group
of gold mines near Hillsboro
owned by the Standard company,
and is developing these properties
at a rate that is being recognized
all over the country. His whole
soul IS III bis business, and he is
constantly thinking about how best
to develop those great gold leads
owned by his company, and bring
out the largest output. AT present
he is specially interested in the
construction of smeltcr in the
suburb of Hillsboro, to be erected
by his company, but of this more
hereafter. If we were called on to
say who was the most useful man