2 NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
In the object of our search we were by no means successful; , 
not, as we afterwards discovered, because there was no coal 
in those localities which report led us to visit, but because 
those who knew of it determined to keep it secret, supposing 
that the railway company would devise some plan of robbing 
them of the fruits of their discoveries. This was not sur 
prising amongst the suspicious Mexicans, but so “‘ dog-in-the- 
American frontiersmen. At the village of Galisteo we could 
not find any one willing to show us the coal veins, although 
they did not deny their existence. We were surprised to se¢ 
were made, and at sunset these enclosures were crowded with! 
stock. Notwithstanding that hundreds of cows were standing 
around, not a drop of milk could be got for love or money. | 
On our way to Tejeras Cafion, a fine natural pass lying 
between the Placer Mountains and the Zandia, we visited for 
the second time the hospitable dwelling of Dr. Steck at the 
Real de los Dolores. 
When at eventide, after a long and difficult ride over 
