–A party of five men who came in from the Panhandle by the way of Tucson, start for the White Oaks to-day. Welding and Anderson, of Watreus, will start out this morning with their own conveyance for the White Oaks. They will take provisions sufficient to last them two months, and go thoroughly prepared to prospect.
The White Oak boom hasn’t let up a bit and never will. It has the mineral and it will have the machinery. Besides, the greater number of well known mineral regions are not all the advantages possessed by that section. It is a great stock raising grazing and excellent agricultural country. Some of the finest farming lands in the Territory exist there. Men who don’t mine can farm and dispose of their products at high prices.
— The meeting of the citizens to consider Wells to the White Oaks was held at the St. Nicholas Wednesday night. A committee consisting of Messrs. Lockhart, Lewelling and F.O. Kihlberg was appointed to solicit funds, select the best route and let the contract for sinking the wells. Yesterday they were quite successful and collected some $500 on the east side. They will devote themselves to this side to-day and hope they may be met in a liberal spirit. We will publish a full list to-morrow of the subscribers.
Mr. Whiteman is back from the White Oaks, speaks very encouraging of the mines there. — Mr. H. S. Davis, of Humboldt, Kans., who has been to the White Oaks, came up yesterday and started East on the noon train. He expressed himself as much pleased with the prospects at that point and will return in a few weeks in the company of his son. –Joseph Askew and Virgil Cullom got on a bender in WHite Oaks City recently, fired off their pistols into houses containing women and children. The citizens collected and followed the constable, They had a fight with the fugitives and wounded Askew and killed Cullom. Both men were recently from Western Texas. View Source
— John Hansen starts for the White Oaks today. He is going to look after the boot and shoe business. — The death of the child of A.M. Janes and wife was sad in consideration of the fact that Mr. Janes is at present at the White Oaks mines and it was impossible for him to reach here in time to attend the funeral. — The Mexico Mining and development company represented by a number of the live men of the east side, equipped men and teams and sent them Sunday last to the White Oaks district to see what can be done there towards forwarding the mining interests of the Territory.
— A large party of prominent men from St Louis who represent capital are here and will leave at once for the White Oaks mines. They are stopping at the St. Nicholas. We obtained the following name of the parties: Ex-Mayor, Jos. Browne of St. Louis; Benj Roadhouse, a prominent Banker; D. Wright, a dealer in blooded stock; Harry George of Morency, Michigan; J. G. Ruple and Chas, App. They have started originally for the Shakespeare mine, but hearing of the rich development in the White Oaks, they turned their attention in that direction and will go there. If they find the mines anything as near as the reports they predict that fully a thousand men will immediately leave St. Louis for the camp. They will send a stamp mill down immediately and prepare to do business. View Source
–Col. McClure has recently brought up from the south some very fine specimens of copper and other mineral bearing ore. The copper is from the new discovery south of the White Oaks, between that camp and the Indian Reservation. The copper must carry a very high percentage of metal as when tested in a blacksmith’s forge, it shows the native metal in large planchettes, That district will yet boom greater than it has. There is considerable country round about and it is all mineral.
–Mr. Dudley Irving, an old resident of Texas and who came up through the White Oaks Mines, is among the recent arrivals. He gives his testimony to the effect that the mines are good and that it will grow steadily into an important mining district and that work is progressing rapidly in the Homestake and one of the shafts is now down fifty feet. The ore increases in richness as they go down and shows no signs of running out. It is a true fissure vein and no mistake.
–Mr. Rathbun of the Chicago Shoe store was busy yesterday unpacking a large stock of boots and shoes; just received from the manufacture. He has a boot made expressly to order for miners. it is a substantial piece of foot wear. He has christened it the “White Oak Boot.”
–There is a consignment of goods at the depot for the White oaks mines. They came from Santa Fe. This is an effectual answer to the boasting of Santa Fe papers in reference to the good and practicable road from the city to White Oaks/ It is more effective argument than a whole column of newspaper talk. It is conclusive that the practical route is from Las Vegas.
–Messrs. J. A. Cooper, H. B Lander, J. Taliaferro, and Burt Crapster of Winfield, Kansas, form a party of young men who proposes to seel fortune in the famous White Oak Mines, These young gentlemen appear to have the proper metal in them for success, and as they already own seventeen claims in that district, we may expect to soon here a good report.
— Messrs. Brunswick and La Rue shipped yesterday 5000 pounds of Homestake ore to Denver for reduction. We have perfect confidence in the Homestake as a way up mine and believe that there are plenty more in the vicinity of equal richness. The White oaks will be a becoming mining camp, the mineral is there and men and machinery will go in to take it out.
–Well No. 1 to the White Oaks is down to a depth of twenty-one feet and prospects for water is already good. — Messrs. A. M. Janes, Edwards from Texas and Ruly, of West las Vegas arrived from the White Oaks yesterday evening. They report the camp booming and more people there than ever before. — Mr. A. M. Janes just in from the White Oaks gives a very flattering report of progress in the district. There are more people in the mines now than ever before and more work being done. he has perfect confidence in the future of the district and gives evidence of his confidence by taking a stock of goods in there five times as large as the stock he has in this city.
The Capt. Kidd mine of White oaks has received from the East reports of mineral sent for assays running from $2,000 to $3,000 per ton.
We met M. Whiteman yesterday who just returned from the White oaks. he gives it as his opinion that the White oaks, Jicarillas, Nogals and Capitan mountains will prove to be the richest ever yet found, outside of Leadville in the United States. If anybody disputes this assertion, they can find Mr. W. at either of his two stores east side where where he will furnish them abundant reasons for the faith that is in him. he has been in western mining regions for 38 years, was at San Francisco when there were but two stores there and has had sufficient experience to make him a competent judge of mineral prospects. Mr. W. has recently made a visit to Colorado. He went there for the purpose of procuring a mining expert. He got one of the best in Leadville, paid his expenses to the mines and went through them all and examined them thoroughly. The later pronounced that country a basin of immense wealth. Mr. W. does not propose to make extravagant statements without cause, but some recent discoveries not yet made public convinces him of the correctness of his views, and he prophesies that in four months time there will be a complete demonstration of his assertions, he states that rains have fallen quite frequently and has made the water question much easier as good supplies can often be found in basins in rocky gulches. White Oaks is peaceful and quite and the officers enforce good order. View Source
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All the newspaper Clippings from Gazette June, 1880
