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cover, it can be Avorked to a great advantage. AA'itli railroad facilities a 

 gi'eat industry will be developed, for the raw material is of good quality. 



OoUl. Silrer iiitd Copper.— The mountains are crossed in all directions 

 by mineral bearing veins: but to date the ores found are too low in grade 

 to shii». 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 lie put up Jemez Valley, mining woidd at once Itecome a paying 

 business. Besides the ore in veins, placer gold is found in the Pleisto- 

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

 necessary water be obtained, this region woidd without dount become one 

 of the leading placer mining districts of the west. 



M((}iciii(il Sin-iiii/K.— 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 Suli)hurs. These springs surpass those of 

 Minnesota and California. They are visited I)y people from every part of 

 the United States, and foreigners not infre(inently 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 tields, 

 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 counti-y. 



The .Femez Coal Fields. 

 Albert B. Reagax. 



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

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

 six miles south of the Jemez River at San Isidro in longitude 106° 50' 

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

 square miles. 



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

 interbedded with clays and sandy shales. luterbedded with these are 

 strata of lirown coal which are freely exposed in the perpendicular 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 these coal fields, it was oltserved 



