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the city of Pueblo, Colorado, one of sixty thousand 

 inhabitants, there is a large area of miles in extent 

 where warm mineral waters of various quantities can 

 be reached in from six hundred to twelve hundred 

 feet below the surface, which have artesian pressure 

 sufficient to convey the water up a hundred feet above 

 the ground, and flow thousands of barrels a day. 



Besides the Hudson spring there are many others 

 of a similar but minor character on the plains within 

 twenty or thirty miles of the Hudson. The flow 

 from the latter is of such quantity as to make a mod- 

 erate-sized stream, which runs off for a considerable 

 distance before being soaked up by the dry soil. 



While on the subject of springs, I will mention that 

 New Mexico, a somewhat dry region during months 

 of dry weather, abounds in many noted mineral 

 springs of large volume. One I saw, the Berrendo, 

 which broke out on a level plain, with a stream as 

 large as a moderately sized man's body, which made 

 a pool sufficient at all seasons to supply ten thou- 

 sand cattle. At another place, where a large well was 

 sunk twenty feet, it could not be proceeded with 

 by further sinking, as water of fine quality flowed 

 along at the bottom in a steady stream. 



The Membres stream in the mountains fifty miles 

 west from Deming, to which we were proceeding 

 and where we made headquarters — camping there 

 for a few weeks, and where we found fairly good 

 trout fishing — disappears in the ground thirty miles 

 from Deming, but, having a flow beneath the surface, 

 supplies the town with a bountiful supply of good 

 water, reached from twenty to forty feet below the 

 surface. This flow of water is drawn plentifully 



