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A short distance south of the station are the old placers worked by the Indians 

 and Spanish hundreds of years ago. Remains of their ditches may still be seen, 

 and there is abundant evidence that the mines were at one time very rich. Recent 

 discoveries have established the existence of gold in paying quantities throughout 

 the entire range, a scarcity of water being the only drawback to its development, 

 A project is being set on foot to introduce several large steam pumps to bring 

 water from the Galisteo for the purpose of mining by hydraulics. 



Cerrillos has the best, if not the only, vein of anthracite coal west of Penn- 

 sylvania. It is four feet in thickness, and accessible to the railroad. Mines of 

 bituminous coal of a superior quality also abound, the product of which is being 

 shipped as far west as Los Angeles, California. — Kansas City Journal. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Literary Style, and Other Essays, by William Mathews, LL. D; i2mo., 

 cloth, pp. 345; Chicago; S. C. Griggs & Co.; 1881 ; $1.50. 

 Dr. Mathews is one of the most prolific writers as well as one of the most 

 popular essayists of the day. His style is attractive, his works are replete with in- 

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 and quotations from the best sources. Everything he writes is of an elevating 

 and instructive character, and a set of his works would fill an important place 

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 Literary Style, The Duty of Praise, Periodical Literature, The Blues and their 

 Remedy, The Modesty of Genius, Sensitiveness to Criticism, The Ideal and the 

 Real, Fat vs. Lean, Memory and its Marvels, Fools, Angling, Intellectual Play- 

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 Office Seeking, Americanisms. S. C- Griggs & Co. 's reputation is such that it is al- 

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The School of Life, by William Rounseville Alger ; Boston ; Roberts Brothers ; 



1881 ; $1.50; for sale by Kansas City Book and News Company. 



This small volume of 200 pages contains many gems of thought, expressed 

 in most elegant and beautiful language. The general outline of the work is that 

 the world is the school; God, the founder and head; desire, thought, labor, ex- 

 perience, and example the general teachers ; education the business of life ; 

 nature the original text book ; the lessons learned docility, energy, submission, 



