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from 200 to 300 barrels daily. Much 

 oil is used for fuel, yet the shipments 

 of refined oils amount to from 1,500 

 to 3,000 barrels per day. 



Within a radnis of five miles are at 

 least 2,000 coal miners at work in the 

 mines of Oak Creek, Coal Creek, Wil- 

 liamsburj;, Brookside and other small 

 places. In this neighborhood are sev- 

 eral deposits of the finest gypsum and, 

 at least one, of marble— very much 

 like Cararra. 



This marble crops within a few hun- 

 dred feet of the railroad. The finest 

 limestones are abundant here. The 

 convicts in the penitentiary at Canon 

 City are principally employed in the 

 manufacture of lime. Much lime is 

 made at a place about six miles south- 

 east of Buena \'ista — on the east side 

 of the Arkansas river. At this latter 

 place, there are large deposits of pure 

 white calcite much used for making 

 lime and also largely shipped to smelt- 

 ( rs to be used as a llux in the treat- 

 ment of ores. 



About ten miles from Leadville and 

 extending for miles is a field that yields 

 fine iron oros. Some of the iron plants 

 at Pueblo and Denver use these ores, 

 so I am informed. Much of this ore 

 is used for fluxing cert^ain ores. 



The finest granite abounds in many 

 different parts of Colorado. 



The most beautiful I saw was in 

 Platte canon about fifty miles west of 

 Denver. Some of this is a beautiful 

 flesh color. I would want no finer 

 monument over my grave than a block 

 of this granite 



There is much w&ter power — little 

 of which is utilized — in various parts 

 of Colorado. On the upper Arkansas 

 river alone there might be developed, 

 in seventy-five miles, several thousand 

 horse power. 



I can not stop to speak of the agri- 

 cultural resources and scores of other 

 items, of lesser importance, among 

 which are fine clays, mineral paints, 

 sand, gravel, artesian water, hot springs, 

 mineral water, etc., etc. 



Nosv, a few words on New Mexico, 



the sunny "American Italy." For an 

 all-the-year round climate, New Mexico 

 certainly easily leads any other Ameri- 

 can country. I have no interests nor 

 friends in the territory and hope I 

 speak without prejudice or partiality. 



The mineral resources of New Mexico 

 are certainly as great as that of any 

 other country, but they are, with the 

 exception of a few localites, midevelop- 

 ed. Timber is not so abundant in New 

 Mexico as it is in Colorado, but many 

 forest abound, and wood for fuel and 

 mining purposes is usually plentiful. 



There is an undetermined coal field in 

 the Ratton Mountains in the northern 

 part of the territory that is a continua- 

 tion of the Eastern Colorado field. I 

 say undetermined because it is undeter- 

 mined as to extent. The cjuality of the 

 coal is much like that of Trinidad. 



The strangest geological phenome- 

 non I ever heard of, or saw, is present- 

 ed in connection with the coal forma- 

 tions of New Mexico — most notably 

 near Cerillos (pro. Se-re-osj about, 

 say, fifty miles north of Albuquerque. 

 Here are twenty-two veins of coal! 

 They vary from one to seven feet in 

 thickness. The united thickness of 

 the workable veins is probably forty or 

 fifty feet! But this is not the phenom- 

 enon! The upper four veins anthra- 

 cite! Who ever saw anthracite above 

 bituminous coal and in close proximity 

 to it.' Has several thousand acres been 

 upset.' If I live long enough I mean 

 to know more of this strange forma- 

 tion. 



East of the Pecos (Pacus) is said to 

 be an extensive coal field, but I have 

 never traveled that way. 



Before leaving Cerillos, let me say 

 that in addition to extensive mines of 

 gold, silver and copper, it has fine iron 

 ores, limestones for flux, the beautiful 

 Rocky Mountain red sandstone, so 

 highly prized for many structural pur- 

 poses, white fire clay, etc. , etc. 



Eugene H. Cowles, the inventor of 

 the Cowles method of manufacturing 

 aluminum, told me that the coke and 

 iron ores of Cerillos are as fine as the 



