Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-16
LINCOLN COUNTY
Nature Has Blessed That Mountain
Section Of the Southwest Very
Literally.
Is NOW VERY PROSPEROUS
Taxes Are Paid Promptly, Property In
oreases in Value, Stock Raising Pays
and Mineral and Timber Resources
Are Utilized.

Demetrio Perea, the active young
sheriff of Lincoln county, left for Lin
coin, his home, this afternoon. Mr.. Pc
rea speaks enthusiastically about the
present and the future of Lincoln coun-
ty. He said hat the collector of the
county collected $21, 900 of taxes during
December, fully go per cent of the x
levied. This will provide for a court
fund sufficiently large to hold a term
of court i'm April.
The town of Lincoln is awakening
from its lethargy, and there are signs
ON every side that it will become not
only the political, but also the CONNER
ella center of the county. Only ten
miles away is the new camp of Capt.
tan, with it's immense coal measures,
With a hundred frame houses already
constructed, and fifty more being built,
with several hundred laboaers, who are
bringing the black diamonds to light
that mean cheap fuel and a stimulus to
all industries. Nine miles from Lincoln
is the Fort Stanton national sanitari-
um. About fifty men are now at work
making Improvements around the fort.
Twenty patients are already being ia
ken ARE of. OF the government land
belonging to Fort Stanton, 400 acres is
a dairy. Lincoln is getting the business
both of Captain and of Fort Stanton,
and therefore money is plentiful. The
farmers now have a good market for
their produce, and the whole county is
benefited.
One of the surest signs that Lincoln
has awakened is the fact that an Eng
fish weekly newspaper is about to be
esta blished there. 1t is some years since
Lincoln people enjoyed the privilege OF
having their own newspaper, and when
the Lincoln County Leader went to
sleep the town seemed ITO have gone
to sleep with 1t. But things afe differ
emit now, and Mr.. Perea stakes his rep
utation as a prophet that Lincoln coun.
ty will soon be the best and the mos
prosperous in the %territory. He says
the county has the coal, Timber, tillable
land, ranges. CATTLE, sheep, mines, ant
climate to make 1T the most blessed spo'
in the United States.
There are only three prisoners in the
county Jail at Lincoln, which, by the
way, lis a good one, BETTER than foun6
in most of the counties of the territory
Cattle stealing, once a common crime
has been suppressed. Law and ordel
prevail in even the most remote town.
ships. Good schools are found in every
district. The revenues of the county ar
sufficient to pay expenses, despite the
fact that Chaves, Eddy and part oil
Otero county were cut out of Lincoln
county, and for "a time crippled it. Cat
tie bring better prices than ever before
Sheep and wool command good prices
and everybody in Lincoln county VIII;
is NOT too lazy to work has money, ant
plenty of it. Lots Of timber is being
cut in the Captain and Tucson noun
tains. In the Tucson mountains a new
sawmill is alt work, and in the Capitar
the railroad company is cutting ties
1.-The Oscura and Jicarilla mountains al,
being overrun with prospectors. In thu
Bonito mining district there is more &C,
strikes of copper and gold are reported
The Old Abe mime ait White Oaks i!
employing a number of men, and th'
COAL being shipped from White Oaks t,
Ell Paso, part of the way by teams, il
of the finest quality.
Mr.. Perea says that White Oaks il
still the largest and best town in tn,
county, and there can be no doubt abou
its future prosperity.
The SNOW storm last week did not d.
near aus much damage as the sensation.
al reports had it. Lincoln county ha!
o1Ne " two similar snow storms ever,
year, and people are prepared for them
The SNOW has put the ranges in goot
condition, and cattle are looking fine
Land is being taken up by SETTLERS or
every side, The Lincoln Trading Com.
pany at Lincoln, recently incorporated
is doing IN immense business, and IL
ouSHi6 UP all ClHo sllCCp uIiu Chullc IL
a conner The sheriff thinks that il
would pay the FL Paso & Northeastern
Railway Company tn extend it's line al
least to Lincoln and Fort Stanton, a dis
tance of less than nineteen miles. II
this We're dome Lincoln would soon rank
with the leading towns of THE territory
MIR. Perea will return Ito THE capital
February 3 to ATTEND a meeting Of the
Republican central committee.