El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-30
MINING AND OIL NEWS.
WHITE OAKS MINES
RICH IN ORE
Opening For Big Capital in
New Mexico District
Near FL PaSO.

, White Oaks, n. NJ, July 30.-'If cap
! italists American and English, or rep
resentatives thereof are seeking an OPP
portunity for investment in gold min
ing camps the great gold felG Of
White Oaks, \. NJ. norIn or III Pas3,
will present them chance seldom
found" said a mining engineer with
wide and varied experience, now here
looking over the field Nv hit7 oaks
presents an opening for good strong
companies TO make one of the greatest
gold producing camps in the southwest
The condition and position OF all the
mines" said he, that are nov giving
up the yellow metal and lying along
side eff each other, with the Did Abe
Mining company in the lead, and The
North Homestake and South Home
stake good seconds, and as a close
third with hopes of taking the lead IN
the future. the Miners Cabin and silver
Cliff. now being developed by the vet
eran miner. Christ Yeager, are Won
ders Also the Boston Boy, with
tunnel we'll inward, showing now and
then chunks of Uncle Sans yellow
S2O.57,' mingled and disseminated in
the quartz porphyries- Higher up
and within the range lies the ia
nous Little MACK, WnAOl SdNS OP
to its owners $4,000 in = gold.
On the north lies the Henry
Clay, with the same formation and all
indications of producing hundreds of
thousands. On the north and west OF
the Little Mack and touching its lines
comes one Of the most promising prop
critics, where several rich gold speci-
mems were recently taken from the
tunnel and as float from the guich
below, which was recently acquired
together with two more properties, of
which the owner intends to open up
and treat the product on the ground
THE kittle Homestake, the Two
Hannibals and the Compromise lie a
little to the west of. the famous North
Homestake.
This wonderful CORA camp lies in
a broken up range of high hills with
deep canyons, the formation being
made up. of porphyries and breccia, the
gold belt running northwest and south
east. No doubt the subterranean dis
turbances which took place in years
gone by in the district, somewhat
shook up the hills and mountains in
general. but it is disclosed in the Old
Abe (Which has the credit of having
the deepest shaft in the territory of
New Mexico, it being 1925 feet deep
perpendicularly. and in a winze from
the drift 1926 feet deep, with number
less drifts and levels and immense
stopes) that wherever quartz is found
disseminated in the porphyry, the gold
is found. ; Indeed, the gold is often
found native in the porphyry itself, in
variably in layers.
Today the Old Abe is working a 90
stamp mill and expressing its gold
bars to the United States minis. In
ii thousands of So 10 $40 ore Is in
sight. Judge J. Y. Hewett and Messrs.
Paul Meyer, Spence and Ferguson are
the sole owners. The advantage these
owners have is that they also own 160
acres of developed coal land in which
at depth of 800 feet is a vein of the
finest coal in the country. four feet
thick. now being taken out. which Is
only three miles from the mines. All
of the mines are using this coal for
fuel If a strong company should look
over the ground it will see the feast !
bility of installing an electric power
plant at the face of the tunnel where |
by it could furnish power. not only for
all the mines. but TO the towns and !
cities and surrounding country gener- |
ain.
The North Homestake, second in /
rank, is also running a stamp mill |
and producing thousands of dollars |
monthly. The owners, Messrs. Queen, |
Jackson and Lane, are figuring on TAX |
ing out millions in the next few years |
Gold is found in the gulches also. |
and from near the surface down to a |
depth Of 1900 feet is the record-a gold |
camp destined TO open the eyes of the |
world"