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coal, some of which he had used in a blacksmith forge in sharpening tools. A 

 party was fitted out, who prospected the country, and after a week's search a 

 much larger body of coal was discovered than was first reported. Speaking of 

 \}a\'s,, Xht Scientific Press sd^y?,: " This latter showed croppings, float and shale, 

 in the easterly end of a valley about twelve miles in length, and all the ground in 

 the vicinity with coal on the surface had been occupied when the second party 

 reached the valley. They, however, followed down the same, occasionally find- 

 ing evidences of the presence of coal, till near the southwestern end of the val- 

 ley they found hundreds of acres literally covered with coal croppings. Where 

 the waters, rushing down a wide canon, had cut a wash-out of twenty feet in 

 depth, they found the black walls reaching from the bottom to the top, while the 

 floor of the wash was not still through the deposit. An examination of the loca- 

 tion discloses what would appear at a cursory glance to be thirty ledges, all dip- 

 ping into the hill to the southeast at an angle of twenty degrees, but which are 

 doubtless only one or two, the surface being marked somewhat with the debris 

 from the tall hills on that side. This party, with a few others who joined them in 

 the valley, located 1,240 acres. In a few days the vaUey was full of prospectors 

 making locations, and now nearly the entire valley between the two original dis- 

 coveries is taken up and occupied. 



"Specimens from the southwestern discovery were brought to San Francisco 

 a few days ago and have been tested. It is a fine quahty of semiTbituminous 

 coal, generates gas well and cokes beautifully. It is free from impurities and 

 deleterious matter, and is pronounced by competent judges to be the best article 

 or quality of coal for this country. This coal field is not more than twenty-five 

 miles from the point where the extensive copper smelters are soon to be erected 

 by Mr. W. A. Ballinger, and will supplement the smelting industry southeast of 

 Globe, now bidding fair to be very large and extensive. A competent engineer 

 estimates the cost of constructing a railroad up Deer Creek to the mines at $10 - 

 000 per mile. Unquestionably this is a most valuable discovery, and will satisfy 

 a need long and seriously felt in Arizona." 



METEOROLOGY. 



KANSAS WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVATIONS AT WASHBURN 

 COLLEGE, TOPEKA.— MARCH 20, TO APRIL 20, 1881. 



BY PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL. 



The last eleven days of March, which are included in this report were 

 warmer than the first part of March, the sky much of the time being clear, and air 

 very dry with no rain. The first week in April was very cold for the season, the 



