The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . amphi-theater in the White Oaks range of mountains, surrounded onall sides by high peaks covered with evergreen pine, cedarand juniper. While several large cattle, sheep and goatranches are located in its immediate vicinity, from which itderives an extensive and profitable trade, the principalsources of the towns business, those which induced its estab-lishment at this point, are mining operations. Somethingmore than twenty-two years ago quartz veins, carrying visi-ble gold in large quantities,
The land of sunshine, a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . amphi-theater in the White Oaks range of mountains, surrounded onall sides by high peaks covered with evergreen pine, cedarand juniper. While several large cattle, sheep and goatranches are located in its immediate vicinity, from which itderives an extensive and profitable trade, the principalsources of the towns business, those which induced its estab-lishment at this point, are mining operations. Somethingmore than twenty-two years ago quartz veins, carrying visi-ble gold in large quantities, were discovered in what are nowknown as the North and South Homestake mines, and out ofthese discoveries and the boom created thereby, grew thenecessity for a trade center and White Oaks was the is inhabited by an enterprising class of citizens, who be-lieve in good schools, churches and respectable society. Oneweekly newspaper, the Outlook, is published here. The busi-ness houses would be creditable anywiiere to a town of 1,000or 2,000 people. No place can boast of a better v« 3aitJ|ll^^tN$StfvjiK^ ^t *^ <?
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