Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-15
AROUND WHITE OAKS
It's Citizens Can Now Feel the
Throb Of the Busy Outside
World.
MUCH PROSPECTING GOING ON
How the Name of the Town Originated
Some General News Notes of Interest
in Regard to the Best Town in
Lincoln County.

Special to the New Mexican.
White Oaks, N. M, September 12.-At
last the smoke Of the locomotive can be
seen from White Oaks. And the trains,
as they pass over the Salado branch of
the road, can be seen from some of the
residences on the north side Of town.
The nearest station on the road is Carl
zozo, twelve miles distant. The trip to
the railroad station car now be made
in two hours instead of two days, as
was the time required to stage the dis
tance to the nearest station IN the
Santa Fe road.
Everybody here seems to have fallen
into a most hopeful mood. Although the
cost of getting to Ell Paso and other
points is not greatly reduced, the time
is lessened, and that is an important
feature. Now that a telegraph line is
so near one feels tina it is only neces-
sary to stretch forth the hand to feel
the throb of the worlds progress.
Much mineral prospecting is going on
in this county, but in such a quiet way
that it is scarcely known until n goes
out prospecting himself and finds all the
old claims and a great many new ones
located. An agent of the Ell Paso smell
ter was here last week examining the
iron deposits of this section, Of which
| there are three of immense quantity
| and excellent quality. One is in Lane
mountain, another in the Jicarilla
mountains, and another in the Ell Capt.
| tan mountains, and distant from White
Oaks one, twelve and twenty-five miles
respectively.
The Old Abe and Lady Godiva mines
and the two cyanide plants continue to
operate most satisfactorily.
Among the people who came to White
Oaks to avoid the heat of July and Au-
gust were Mrs. Sample of New York,
Mrs. Spencer and daughter of st. Louis,
Miss Williams of Parkersburg, W. Va,
the families of Frank w. and Morris B.
Parker from Mexico, and a number
from Ell Paso, all Of whom were guests
of relatives in this place.
A party of fifteen school girls, chap
eroned by Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan, all
from Wellington, Kan, left here a fort
night ago on their return home from the
Bonito, where they had spent a delight
full month camping and fishing.
A camp meeting that extended
through several weeks was held IN the
Bonito during August and the first part
of September. 1t was largely attended.
Several ministers from Texas were
present.
The public schools of White Oaks will
be opened next Monday with Professor
Coon, from Illinois, as principal.
The fact that the Ell Paso & North
eastern Railway Company has adopted
an oak leaf and a con as it's symbol in
advertising and in other business of the
company is suggestive.
Apropos to this, it may be interesting
to know how the name White Oaks
came to be given to this town, as there
are NO oaks, except the shrub live oak,
in sight. But two miles east of town
there is a fine spring and a beautiful
| grove of white oak trees. 1t was there
that the first prospectors from the
states camped. From it the mining dis
trict took it's name, then the postofice,
and last the town vas christened White
Oaks. The name has a special charm
for those who have seen the oaks and
spring. They now belong to the South
Homestake Mining Company, and the
spring furnishes all the water used in
running their mill and the cyanide plant
located by it. The former owner had the
property inclosed in a cattle corral,
which destroyed a good deal of it's orig
inal beauty. 1t would make a most
beautiful park.