El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-08
White OAKS COUNTRY.

Rapid Development Along the Line
Of the Mountain Railway
Route.
Alamogordo. N. M, June ITO the
Dallas News. )-Matters are moving
along at a lively gait in this section Of
New Mexico. Present Indications in
Otero county show very rapid deve-
lopment of local resources and a very
large increase of population.
Construction on the extension of the
White Oaks route is being pushed for
ward with all possible speed. Coal
mining machinery is being rushed for
It ready for use when the railway
reaches that point. The Alamogordo
and Sacramento Mountain branch now
brings in two trainloads of saw logs per
day, and upon the completion of the
second mill now in construction, the
haul of the saw timber will be doubled,
If not quadrupled.
This mountain railway is now open
for travel, and on the summit of Sacrs-
vilion, for the use of large conventions,
meetings, ETC., of professional and 9TH
err societies has been erected. 1t is q
building capable of providing meals for
500 people or entertaining 1000. The
Texas-New Mexico Chautauqua will be
held here.
The scenery of this region is varied
and beautiful. After traversing the
picturesque Fresnal canyon for a dis
lance of about seventeen miles an alti-
tude of 5000 feet is reached, and here,
in a fern-grown, towering forest of
pines and frs, near fine springs, the
Chatauqua grounds are situated.
The agricultural resources of the
mountain region are being rapidly de-
veloped. Farmers from Colorado, Kan
sas and Texas, attracted by the large
acreage of government land still open
for settlement, are coming in from all
directions, using their teams overland.
The mineral resources are receiving
mountains are full of prospectors, and
good properties are changing hands
daily. The Jarills mountains in point
of development are now making rapid
progress. There Is q camp there of
500 people, and large shipments of ore
are being made every day or two. One
shipment consisted of thirteen carloads
of copper and gold ores, some of which
ran as high as 800 in gold per ton, and
IL to 20 per cent in copper. High
grade copper ore is also being shipped
miles east of Alamogordo, N. M.
The Jarilla camp is situated in a
group Of comparatively low mountains,
some fifty miles north of Ell Paso, on a
short branch line of the White Oaks
route. This country has been prospect
ed for more than a quarter of centu-
ry, and was at one time believed to be
rich in silver. The difficulty
in getting water and supplies int these
in the early days however,
made mining at a profit impracticable.
The building of the railway into the
heart OF these mountains has changed
all of this, and now every part Is readi-
ly accessible.
In 1895 the Jarilla camp became
more favoraoly known for its gold and
capabilities, and on
these lines it is now being thoroughly
The several hundred |
claims having assessment work done |
IN them, and those being regularly |
mined, have made such good showings |
hat capital ia readily obtainable for |
five miles long and a railway
tation have been constructed; spurs
cad direct to the principal mine open
ugs.
A new town with 500 people to start
IN has been laid out. Modern ex-
,ensive machinery, compressed air
plants, power drills, tramwavs and
,Oisttng machinery are being put in
IN several of the mines. All these
hings show confidence in the mineral
esources of the camp, and this conf
lence is we'll bestowed, considering
hat every mine so far regularly work
ID has paid its expenses from the grass
cots down, and that every prospect on
7hich assessment work has been done
hows good ore on the dump.
One predominated feature is the
reat mum Der of outcroppings found on
very slope and peak and the vast
of iron float found everywhere
q the hillsides. The camp would be
cry valuable for it's iron alone, but
mis- iron ore contains gold besides, and
hen the collaborating iron has
cen pierced with a tunnel or shaft,
copper ore is encounter
d.
No mining region of similar extent
az greater mineral posi- bilities, more ,
ruptive dykes; porphyry and lime :
one contacts, garnet quartzite lodges,
lrlferOus iron seams and immense ,
upper showing that the Jarilla noun ,
Tins, and they are not confined toone
cality, but are tbickly scattered over 3.
! area of twelve miles long and five
lies wide. New York, PENNSYLVANIA,
Z. Louis and Colorado capital in large !
mounts is already invested here. !
T. E. ROESSLER.
FIGHT BY QOIJNDS