lU NEW TEACKS IN NOETH AMEEICA. 



On the Huerfano Eoute, Dr. Parry reports that he met with 

 no workable coal. 



On the route by '' Puntia Pass," coal quite equal, if not 

 superior to that of the Yermejo, hereafter to be described, 

 was seen by Col. Greenwood at Cailon City. It occurs in 

 Yeins, from 4 to 10 feet thick, and the deposit extends at least) 

 twenty miles down the Arkansas Yalley, below Cailon Cityi 

 This brings it to within ninety miles of Port Lyon, or 204] 

 miles from Sheridan, being the nearest certain supply o 

 good coal to the present end of track that we know of. 

 The quality is admirable, and the quantity apparently inex-' 

 haustible. Major Calhoun, of our party, estimated the sizd 

 of the deposit between Hard Scrabble and Canon City tc^ 

 be one hundred square miles.* In the Wet Mountain Parfe 

 the deposits are represented as equally good. ' 



Between the Arkansas and the Eaton Mountains coal has 

 been found amongst the heads of the Huerfano Eiver, which, 

 no doubt, is the northern continuation of the deposit bette 

 known south of those mountains. Some of the extensiv 

 deposits exposed in the canons, thi'ougli which many of th 

 heads of the Canadian Eiver leave the mountains, wer 

 carefully examined by our geologist after he had v 

 those in the Eaton Pass. I extract the following facts from 

 his report.. In Mr. Long's farm, on the Purgatoii'e, a vein, 

 3 1 feet thick, of which 2| are of good quality, was examined 

 In Eaton Pass, one and a half miles beyond Trinidad, on th 



the road, several thin beds are exposed, varying 



fronJ 



some inches to 3^ feet thick. Four and a half miles farther 

 on, other similar croppings appeared, as also at the toll-gate 

 and four miles south of it. Mr. Wooten, who lives at the 

 toll-gate, mentioned several beds known to him, and con- 

 ducted our geologist over the hills to visit a vein 8 feet 



