Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-10-04
THE OLD ABE
REPORTED SOLD
A Plan to Make White Oaks an H.
dustrial and Mining Center
at Once.
OUTSIDE CAPITAL COMING In
An Electric Power Station to Be Erected in
the White Oaks Goal Field to Dis
tribute Power for Seventy
Five Miles Around

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the Denver papers:
| The White Oaks region, Lincoln
county, is traversed by the now build
| ing Ell Paso and Northeastern and
Rock Island railroads and is noted for
its minerals, stock raising and it's agri-
cultural lands.
The White Oaks mineral area en-
braces the districts of Carrizozo, JIG
arilla, Gallinas, Nogal, Bonito and
White Oaks itself.
The American Placer company OF
Cleveland, O., has expended $4,000 in
work preparing to operate the Jicarlia
placers and is now about to begin act
ual gold getting with a big steam
shovel and other machinery. The COM
pany has 5000 acres of placers running
about so cents per cubic yard, and a
long reach of pine line.
The Gallinas is a copper district and
is the scene of late and large invest
ment by Iowa capital, extensive devel-
opment being proposed. Jones ralia-
ferro of White Oaks, the Spenc Broth"
ers and others have large properties in
the Gallnas Mr.. Taliaferro having
hauled ore so miles at a profit
Nogal is one of the old camps of the
White Oaks region and counts some
noted mines, including the American
and the Helen Rae groups. Eacn OF
these groups is equipped with milling
machinery, and both are rich in gold.
The American group is owned by the
Vanderbilt Gold Mining company OF
New York and Pennsylvania, and is
now idle. The Helen Rae property DE-
longs to Dolph & Robertson Of hcran-
ton, Pa, and is being worked.
CHICAGO CAPITAL INVESTED.
In the same mining vicinity ]. M.
Rice, with Chicago money, is taking
hold of the noted Hopewell, or Par
sons mine This is veritable noun
tain of gold ore, and it looks as though
il is now slated for active production
On Turkey creek, Iowa money is de-
veloping gold properties, while Byrd q
Collard are working rich silver veins.
On the Bonito, Ottawa, Kan, money
is exploiting promising lead and silver
deposits, mostly Of silver return.
The late purchase OF the famous Old
Abe gold mine and the great White
Oaks coal fields by the Oscura Copper
company is to fully develop the White
Oaks mining region and build the town
of White Oaks into a city
The Oscura company-at the practi-
cal head of which is G. Pray Smith, the
well known Boston, Mass, capitalist
and western investor and operator
proposes to fully develop the White
Oaks coal properties by an electric
plant, and from thence transmit elec'
trio power not only to the Old Abe goli
mine but also to the big copper leach
ing plant of the company at Oscura,
80 miles distant on the Ell Paso-Rock
Island railroad-this electric power
again to be furnished by contract to
any of the other gold, copper mines of
the White Oaks district so desiring.
A LIFT FOR WHITE OAKS.
The development at once Of all the
mining resources Of the district will
make the town Of White Oaks one OF
the busiest commercial points of the
now rapidly unfolding southern and
southwestern New Mexico zones, and
must speedily result in the building by
the Ell Paso-Rock Island railroad of a
White Oaks branch.
The Old Abe mine has, since its first
milling--in 1S94-produced 100000, the
rock being free milling. About five
months ago, at the 1,20o-foot level a
4O-foot vein Of sulphide gold ore was
encountered, which has since steadily
produced under the stamps and the
| cyanide teaching vat $6 ore, the mine
now being below the 1900 foot level.
It is estimated that the electric pow
er currents of the White Oaks coal
mines will cover a circuit of at least
| 75 miles and drive the machinery OF
probably 50 mines-the ores including
gold, silver. copper, lead, iron and zinc
The town of White Oaks has a pres
ent population Of 800, and has dou-
BILE daily stage and mail connection
with the railroad station at Carrizozo-
the stages themselves being well
horsed and equipped.
The Hotel Baxter at White Oaks Il
a pleasant resting place.
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