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oorer, it can be worked to a great advantage. With railroad facilities a 

 great industry will be developed, for the raw material is of good quality. 



(lohJ. Xilrcr aiid (V>/>/>rr.— The mountains are crossed in all directions 

 l)y mineral bearing veins; but to date the ores found are too low in grade 

 to ship, the railroad being too far away, and they are not enough in quan- 

 tity to pay to put a smelter on the ground to smelt them. Should a rail- 

 load I)e put up Jemez Valley, mining would at once become a paying 

 business. Besides the ore in veins, placer gold is foun<l in the rieisto- 

 ceue deposits, but water for hydraulic mining is wanting, ("ould the 

 necessary water be obtained, this region would witliout doubt Itecome one 

 of the leading placer mining districts of the west. 



MnJU-'uKil .V/*r/«//.s-.— The springs of the region are numerous, most all 

 are hot, and all possess medicinal properties. Among them are the famous 

 Jemez Hot Springs, and the Sulphurs. These springs surpass those of 

 Minnesota and California. They are visited by people from every part of 

 the United States, and foreigners not infreciuently visit them. 



This region, with its building stone, with its gypsum, with its forests, 

 with its medicinal springs, with its gold and silver veins and coal fields, 

 and with its fertile soil and unequaled climate, is one of the best regions 

 in New Mexico: and under proper handling, will become one of the wealth- 

 producing regions of the country. 



The Jemez C'Oal Fields. 

 Albert B. Reagan. 



The Jemez coal fields are situated about twenty-tive miles west of 

 Bernalillo, thirty miles a little to the west of north of Albutiuerque. and 

 six miles south of the Jemez River at San Isidro in longitude 100° .")()' 

 west, and in latitude 35° 30' north. They cover an area of altout twenty 

 square miles. 



Tlie strata of this field show a predominance of soft yellow sandstones 

 interbedded with clays and sandy shales. Interbedded with these are 

 strata of In-own coal which are freely exposed in the perpeudicidar walls 

 of the mesas. These coal seams vary from two to twelve feet in thick- 

 ness: and, along one fault in this respective coal area, seventy feet of coal 

 are exposed at one view. In examining tliese coal fields, it was ol)served 



