WHITE OAKS NEW MEXICO MINING CAMP MIGRATION
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES OF WHITE OAKS MINING CAMP MIGRATION APRIL 1880 LAS VEGAS N.M. GAZETTE After the discovery of gold in 1879 by John Wilson ,Jack Winters also known as “John” and Harry Baxter, who were placer mining in the White Oaks country, news spread quickly around the country especially via Las Vegas New Mexico about 130 miles as the crow fly’s Northeast of White Oaks and the Buzz starts hundreds and thousands and people flocking to White Oaks to claim their riches. A very exciting time. Our party arrived here on the 7th from Vegas. We found half a dozen log cabins constituting the new laid out town of White Oaks. I went immediately up to Baxter gulch to the famous Homestake Lode. Going up the gulch I saw a hundred Mexican miners washing out gold, stopped long enough to see one pan of dirt turned out a dollars worth of gold. I saw one Mexican who had washed out that day sixteen dollars worth of gold and another twenty dollars worth. I saw one Mexican today with a nugget of gold which he washed out that weighed thirteen pennyweights and sold for ten dollars. The Chicago …
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