White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1901-03-07
CARRiZOZo STILL BoOMS.

I
Rock Island and El Paso exten-
sion is still growing in saloons,
restaurants, barbershops, mixed
population, etc, etc. Though
Carrizozo is much more favor
able location for a town than any
the northeastern has yet built,
people are generally dubious as to
its permanent future. However,
this may be, there is a possibility
of its becoming a point of con-
siderable business proportions,
being a junction and surrounded
by a resourceful stock and mining
country.
1t is far enough from White
Oaks not to i'll any way in
tcrfere with business condi-
tions here, and if successful,
as town site, will be populated
by a class of people after time
who will engage in the develop
ment of the mining resources of
this district, which will necessa-
rily take them to the surrounding
mining camps the three nearest
of which, offer inducements tor
the investment of capital in almost
every kind of mining open to the
industry. Schelerville the near
est camp south Of Carrizozo, is
new and prospering camp which
is rich in copper, silver and lead.
The development of large group
of claims, at that place is now be-
ing rapidly pushed by the Iowa
and New Mexico Mining and Mil
ling Company. The present de-
velopments show the Schelerville
district to contain extensive de-
posits of high grade copper and
galena ores, and the indications
are that it will soon be producing
these minerals, in tremendous
quantities.
White Oaks has been steadily
producing gold and coal for the
past twenty years and is extern
; sively and most favorably known
of any mining region in New
Mexico. The immense iron de-
posits of this camp are located
about midway between the town
of White Oaks and the nearest
2 station, Manchester, on the main
S line of the extension, and is in
t easy position for transportation,
: the deposits being about two and
q one half miles from the main line
e track. The coal fields are also
: near the main line, the deposits
: beginning about five miles south
D and east of the line of extension.
h The marble quarrieS and building
n stone quarries are all in easy reach,
h and branch of five miles length
e will tap all of these resources,
e and open to development one OF
O the richest mining districts ii
V New Mexico. White Oaks is the
= center of ten miles square of min
erals of which the gold mines Of
G Baxter and Lone Mountains, the
e marble quarries of Lone Noun
e tain, the iron, sulphur and copper
e of Lone Mountain, lie west of us
g and near the line of the northeas'
y extension, the coal, and fire clay
t south, east and northeast, and thC
v stone quarrics nearly east, al
within distance of three mile:
from the town of White Oaks.
d The third is Nogal, nearly soutl
: of Carrizozo, at distance of abou
! fifteen miles and within three mil
: es of the Captain branch, and ha'
e around it rich deposits of differen
v kinds of minerals, including gold
copper, silver, etc, etc. The de
5 velopment of the Helen Rae anC
G American mines has already de
= monstrated the worth of that dis
trict, and though much of the or,
is refractory, rail road facilitie
e will soon be such, or at least cal
n be made such, that development
& can be easily and cheaply made
Carrizozo with these surround
S ing is the possibility of city o