Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-03
WHITE OAKS PROSPERlNG.
Colonel G. W. Prichard Talks of the New
Era That Has Dawned on That Mining
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Colonel G. w. Prichard, formerly OF
Las Vegas, who went to White oaks
about three years ago and became SC
f~avorably impressed with the prospects
of that locality that he took up his resi-
dence there, was in the city several days
the past week a guest at the Palace hotel.
| Colonel Prichard is interested in mining
in the White Oaks country, and know
ing him to be well able to give pointers
on the outlook for that section, a New
| MEXICAN representative interviewed
him for the purpose OF learning some
thing Of the development of one OF the
best parts of the territory. Among
many other things Colonel Prichard
said:
'The certainty of the railroad going
to White Oaks and the fact of the mines
in that vicinity being again on a paying
basis, makes White Oaks n of the
most promising mining camps in the
territory. There are probably the rich
est placers in the neighborhood of that
place of any in the southwest.
SIT has been known for many years
that there was an abundance of gold in
that vicinity, also much coal and iron,
and the fields of the two latter await
the coming of the railway to give up
their valuable commodities. All kinds
of tests have been made to learn the
true value and extent of the gold in the
Jicarilla mountains and the verdict is
unanimous that there is practically an
unlimited supply of the precious metal
awaiting to be extracted from the hills
and placers.
''The placer grounds in that section
are estimated to cover about 1000 acres
and the pay dirt will run on an average
about IL feet in depth. The difficulty
heretofore experienced in that locality
has been the lack of water to wash the
golden earth. That question has been
solved very recently. Water in a suffi-
cient quantity to handle 1000 cubic
yards of dirt per day has been secured
20 miles away at the Captain mountains,
several springs furnishing the supply,
the discharge being about 500 gallons
per minute"
The Jicarilla Placer Company is the
name of the organization made up
principally of local people that is push
this enterprise to completion. Colonel
Prichard is one of the prime movers in
tho favorable scheme. The piping for
the 20 miles is to be laid Immediately,
the money for it's purchase already being
on hand.
Speaking of the conditions that aug
ured a new prosperity for White Oaks,
Colonel Prichard said that the Old
Abe mine is now being worked at an
advantage, and the Homestake mine is
also doing well. The North Homestake
mine which suspended work a few
months ago will resume operations short
ly. There are other mines of promising
outlook in the vicinity. "White Oaks"
said Colonel Prichard, sis q bullion pro-
ducing camp, the value and extent of its
ore being known and recognized among
miners. We have every assurance" he
continued, that the railroad which has
temporarily stopped at Alamogordo, to
admit of a branch line being built to the
Sacramento mountains, will be continued
on to White Oaks 81 oon as this branch
line is completed. Work will doubtless
be resumed on the main line in Septem-
ber.''