606 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
One especially was found where human hands or lava or falling leaves and 
dust had filled it level with the earth, no shaft being discernible, and would not 
have been found, perhaps, had not an old trail been discovered. This was dug 
into and at a depth of twelve feet a man could, in places, thrust his arm in up to 
the elbow between the granite walls of the mine and the earth which filled the 
old shaft. The mineral, unlike our White Oaks country, does not seem to out- 
crop, but seems to be deep in the earth; no float having been found as yet except 
near the shafts or around the old smelters. On the eastern slope of the Manzana 
Mountains no quartz has been found excepting in a very burned and blackened 
condition. This part of the country will perhaps yield immense mineral wealth 
in time, and further developments and prospecting is awaited with great interest 
to many. 
The walls of some of the old ruins at Abo are six feet of solid stone—lime and 
red sand—the walls in places are yet six feet in height and in a state of perfect 
preservation. In the ruins are found vessels of various designs and sizes made 
of pottery—some representing birds and animals. Stone hammers are found 
here, but no indications that sharp-edged tools were used in this ancient period. 
In digging down in one place the remains of an old aqueduct was found, which 
was probably used, as in the present day by the Mexicans for supplying the 
inhabitants with water. 
It is thought and believed, by specimens of ore found, that gold, silver and 
copper were found in paying quantities. All the rock is more or less copper 
stained and some of it is so much so that some of the ‘‘country’’ rock has run 
as high as 37 per cent. copper. 
. Surely our bright, sunny land has been enjoyed long before the Anglo Saxon 
made his appearance upon the scene. The future of New Mexico can only be 
surmised. Every day new evidences of untold wealth are thrust upon us, and 
the day is not far distant when the multitudes of the East will flock to our bor- 
ders and assist in the development of the greatest mineral region in the world.— 
Era. 
CVE MITSTRY. 
CHEMISTRY IN 1727. 
PROFESSOR T. BERRY SMITH, LOUISIANA COLLEGE, MO. 
I have been reading a book—very large book—whose title page reads thus: 
‘¢ A New Method of Chemistry, written by the very learned H. Boerhaave, Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry, Botany and Medicine in the University of Leyden, etc., 
etc., translated by P. Shaw, M.D., and E. Chambers, Gent, London, MDXXVII 
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