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White Oaks Eagle op THE SOUTHWEST. Volume 9 No. 31. WHITE OAKS, NEW MEXICO, THURSDAY, AUG. 9. 1900. Subscription, S1.50 a Year. CHASE & SANBORN, Importers, Boston. Taliaferro M.&T.CO. ? ? 3 i 4? ? 4?' 4? THE EL PASO GROCERY Co. Wholesale Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries. We make the lowest Cash Prices on Groceries in the Southwest! Distributors for Pillsbury's Best, the best Flour in the World, and Pillsbury's Vitos, the Ideal Breakf ast Food. Ask jour Gro cer for them. 200 Overland, and 200 to 206 S, Oregon Sts., El Paso, Tex. 4? 4? (yo Shelton Payne Wholesale and Retail Fire Armes, Ammunition, Saddles, Harness and Leather Goods. We make a Specialty of Fire Arms, Ammunition and Stock Saddles. All mail orders given prompt Attention. 305 North Oregon mr mr -v H 11 11 Dry Goods, Boots and j Shoes. Glassware and Í .. Notions. I i I HAY AND (j) Ivrakauer, Aork ec 1 loye, V7HJLE5ALE and. ÜETAIL Xi33.A.X.:Er&S 11T ' IIAKDWAKIC, Arms, Ammunition, Wagons and Waon Material, Agricultural Implements, w Paints, Varnishes, etc. Agents for Bain Wagons, Ideal Windmills, and Atlas Dynamite. Mining Supplies a Spe cialty. P.I Onct Tov ci n rl f!V ill n n linn DTfi-r. tl Paso, Wholesale Grocers, Wagons ad Agricultural Implements, lYCormick Rakes and Harvesters. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR Wool, Hides, a i 1 lit 1 ; : i a iiiniiir . i i i i i i 0 0 rr cv Arms Company. St., El Paso, Texas. m m IT 7 11 n 1 11 u u t Groceries, Hardware, Granite and 5 Tinware. Miner's Supplies. $ t GRAIN. f Texas. Pelts and furs. m m m mk im sm Ka w. V u b a b m Hot on The Trail of Coffee! All beginnings are hard, as the thief said when he began by steal ing an anvil. But why not begin now and use a good coffee. Some would call it extrava gance. Do you think so? For high grade coffee call on WOULD ADD 25 PER CENT. TO PRESENT VALUES. A good system of water works would add 25 per cent, to the val ue of real estate in White Oaks. Real estate without water is like a mine without mineral it is not worth the taxes paid to retain it. Real estate has been command ing respectable prices here for the past twelve month, where mártir t-i -i i ammip umn ndrn nnon 1 , , , , ,1 """v or could be at little cost. Sales ! would increase and values crawl up, it water could be had at a i v.a..lu..w.,l, u.. ties mat now cannot dc marKetea at any price. Water works are a necessity to the development and growth of this city, and should enough of our business men and property holders get in the no tion at the same time the enter prise will be undertaken at once. FIX YOUR TEETH. Dr. Henwood, dentist, of Ala mogordo, will return to White Oaks August 12th, and will be glad to see any and all who desire dental work of anv kind, at his ; office at Hotel Ozanne, from 13th to 18th of August, FOR RENT. A barn, stable and corral for rent. Everything convenient. For further information call at this office. HUNT'8 CURE Cures all skin diseases in all its various forms. No internal treat ment necessary. Failing, money returned to purchaser, at M. (1. Padcn's. HUNT'S LIGHTNING OIL Cures catarrh, neuralgia, sprains, cramp colic, diarrhoea, cuts, headache, and rheumatism. Good for man and beast, at M. (J. Padcn's. ICYCLE FOR SALE. A bran new "Armada" bicycle for sale cheap. It is the leader manufactured by the Mead Cycle Co., and is one of the best wheels in the market. Guaranteed for 12 months. Inquire at this office. Rich, red and pure blood can be had by using Dr. Simmon's Sar- saparilla. Only $1.00 per bottle and 130 full doses for an adult. GREEN RIVER. Is the official Whiskey used in all Hospitals of the United States. For sale at the "Little Casino." JOB WORK. Job Work of every description neatly and cheaply done at the pletion of the gap between Liber-EAOuc-oftice New type, new ma-'al, Kan., and White Oaks. "The chinery and skilled workmen. I value and extent of the mineral Everything new and the best. 1 discoveries now so frequently rc Try this office for anything and j ported from the Gallinas moun everything in the job line. Our ( tains will have much to do with facilities arc the best, and all ( this feature of the enterprise orders promptly filled. i Citizen. THE ROCK ISLAND VIA WHITE OAKS. The shortest route from Chica go to Los Angeles, Cal., will be formed by the extension of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway from Liberal, Kansas, to White Oaks, N. M., a distance of about 360 miles. The length of the new route from Chicago to Los Angeles will be 2,1 miles, or seventy miles shorter than the Santa Fc route. Faster time can be made over the new route than the figures of mileage indicate, because the country in New Mexico through which it will pass is less moun tainous than that traversed by the Santa Fe route. The distance from Chicago to Liberal, Kansas, via the Rock Is- lana road, is hoh miles. 1 ne line to be built from' Liberal to to White Oaks, N. M., will be about 360 miles. At White Oaks connection will be made with the El Paso & Northeastern railroad, the distance from White Oaks to El Paso being 155 miles. The Southern Pacific will be used i from El Paso to Los Angeles, the J distance between the two places by that line being 812 miles. This makes the total length of the new route from Chicago to to the Pacific coast 3,195 miles. It will also make, in connection ... . - . With the Mexican Central, a new of Mexico, which will be nearly 2000 miles shorter than anv other Une. Kansas Uity Times, Within the next few days the Rock Island and the El Paso & Northeastern railway surveying corp, working southwest and northeast, will have formed a junction of their respective sur- vevs somewhere north of White ! Oaks, toward the Jicarilla moun-' tains, orobabl v not far from Luna Springs. Some dispatches sent out from Clayton and other places in New Mexico two weeks ago about the line taken by the Rock Island surveyors are very misleading. The Rock Island's chief engineer is quoted as saying that he was headed for som point on the "Pecos road," when it should have been "Pecos river." These surveyors crossed the Pecos val ley near Puerto de Luna, a week ago, headed for Jicarilla, where Chief engineer Sumner and his corp of E. P. & N. E. road sur veyors were encamped Wednes day, so they cannot be far apart at this writing. The survey made by the El Paso & Northeastern corps through the White Oaks country has been suprisingly satisfactory. The grade through the ranges there can be made with a little less than per cent, which was a great surprise to the surveyors. It is now conceded that the road will go via White Oaks in stead of Capitán, to avoid the heavy 4 per cent grade on the Capitán line, already in opera tion and to get a more direct line to El Paso. It is generally agreed that the work of construction will begin on the connecting line as soon as the survey is completed. As to running a branch road north through the Gallina moun tains and the Pinos Wells region, that will doubtless be the next move undertaken, after the com- WHAT EL PASO SAYS ABOUT OIR EXHIBIT. John Y. Hewitt, president and manager of the Old Abe Com pany, S. M. Wharton, editor of the White Oaks Eagle, and S. A. Neid, contractor and builder, came down from White Oaks last night as a committee appointed by the citizens of that place to attend the mineral exhibit of White Oaks which was started to this city yesterday and was to have arrived last night, but through a mistake the car containing; the exhibit was set out at Alamogordo and will not I arrive tonight. I The exhibit consists of one ton and a half of minerals and a ton and a half of of coal. When the Herald man expressed surprise at the amount of the exhibit, Mr. Hewitt said, "Oh, that is only the beginning of the White Oaks exhibit. There will be more to follow at different times in the future. There have been many false reports made alout White Oaks and her resources and we intend to prove to the public that they are false. "When people talk of going to White Oaks there is some one ready to say 'Don't go there; there is nothing there,' and it has been said that White Oaks coal is full of iron and runs into big clinkers. "We have in the exhibit a lump of coal 2x2 yí feet and 5 feet and 4 inches long, the length being the thickness of the vein. A look at it will convince )-ou that White Oaks coal has no iron in it. We use it in the mine furnaces and have no trouble with clinkers." One of the main features of the White Oaks mineral exhibit is a 25lb. lump of ore that is a min eral Maverick. Samples of this ore have been examined by all sorts of experts but no body has ' vet classified it. President Hew- itt, of the Old Abe Company, calls it shale, just to give it a name, but dosen't think it is shale. It is a strange combination being a dark blue looking rock permeated by many thin seams of pure white lime. These seams carry free gold in considerable quantities. Herald. The White Oaks exhibit for the Chamlxir of Commerce rooms arrived last night and secretary Russell has been busy with the committee from White Oaks plac ing the ores today. Probably the finest specimens in the exhibit arc two large blocks of coal from the mines three miles from White Oaks. They are about xs ieet ana snow tne width of vein. The rest of the display consists of copper and galena which car ries gold, silver and lead and sul phur. The minerals have been i examinen ny many miners tooay ana pronouncca very ncn speci mens. The work of placing the exhib- it was completed at 3 o'clock this afternoon and secretary Russell of the Chamber of Commerce ar ranged for a reception akin to a banquet at 4 o'clock. The members of the Chamber of Commerce were requested to le present and meet the committee from White Oaks and express their thanks for the interest the White Oaks people have taken in El Paso's mineral exhibit. News. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. A stroke of lightning killed 350 sheep and a Mexican herder on Three Rivers the other night. Dnring the storm the herder, who was an employe of Ernisto Ar mijo, of Las Cruces, took refuge with his Hock under a huge tree. While the storm raged, lightning struck the tree, killing the herder and 350 of the sheep bunched about him. A QUESTION OF PUBLIC INTEREST. The question of water works for White Oaks has been dis cussed at intervals for several years, but alway from a stand point of financial profit to the in dividual who backed the enter prise. Recently it has been talked of as a question of public improvement; as a necessity not only as a means of service to the inhabitants, and as a requisite in adding attraction to the town, but as a protection against loss to property holders by fire. Past experiences and heavy losses by fire have prompted prop erty holders and all classes of business men to look a little more invitingly on the question of water works for the city. Those who own water near town have been investigating its resources, and computing the cost of pipe lines, reservoirs, etc., and plans for construction have already been pretty well matured in the minds of different individuals who have purchased water rights with the view of furnishing the city with water, sometime ago. The Eagi.k has been informed that Kansas City capital ac quainted with conditions here has proposed to furnish the money for the construction of water works, and money is ready when ever the owners of the water right want to use it. Between $4,000 and $5,000 will be ample funds to furnish White Oaks with a first class system of water works, and the advance in prop erty alone as effected by it would be worth many times that amount of money. A survey of the south side of White Oaks Avenue is proof con clusive that property ten times the value of the cost of water works went up in the flames in a few hours, and those acquainted with the incident know that sev eral thousand dollars worth of property across the street was only saved at the time by an army of water carriers working like Trojans to save it. Now that the town is improving . and every house in it occupied, fire may be expected at any time, and the next experience may be ten times more destructive than any former one. Why not every man who lives in White Oaks, and every busi ness man in particular, make it a point to lend a portion of his time and a meager portion of his earn ing forone year to needed public improvements? All agree that this town is not surpassed in climatic advantages by any part of the United States, and could be made one of the most beauti ful residence towns in the world by utilizing the water now going to waste in the mountains sur roundingit.One of the great things needed to fill White Oaks with life and business is more attention on the part of our business men and property owners to public enterprise the very first thing that demands their attention is a system of water works. There is not a town in New Mex ico as old as White Oaks and do ing the volume of business that we do that hasen't water works, a public watering place for man and beast and shade trees at the proper placcson its thoroughfares. A number of yards and homes in this city show what they could all be if water was available. A system of water works could be put in here at a minimum cost that would supply the town and also furnish an abundance for every mine in operation. Why not have it thus?