660 W. T. LEE STRATIGRAPHY OF COAL FIELDS OF NEW MEXICO 



found readily, the form of reference used in the bibliographies of the 

 United States Geological Survey has been followed. 



No. Date. 



1. 1848. Abeet, J. W. : Report on examination of New Mexico in the years 



1846-1847. 



Report Sec. War, 30th Cong., 1st sess., Senate Doc. No. 23, pp. 

 3-130, 24 plates, map (Washington, 1848) ; 30th Cong., 1st sess., 

 Ex. Doc. No. 41, pp. 417-546. Washington, 1848. 



(P. 37) Coal was found in the Cerrillos field and on the Rio 

 Puerco. (P. 547) From the Rio Puerco coal beds (at Poblozon) 

 he collected fossils which Bailey determined as Cretaceous. 



2. 1848. Bailey, J. W. : Notes concerning the minerals and fossils col- 



lected by Lieut. J. W. Abert while engaged in the geographical 

 examination of New Mexico. 



Report Sec. War, 30th Cong., 1st sess.. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 23, 

 pp. 131-132, 3 plates (Washington, 1848) ; 30th Cong., 1st sess., 

 Ex. Doc. No. 41, pp. 547-548. Washington, 1848. 



Reviewed, Am. Jour. Sci., 2d series, vol. 6, pp. 389-392. 1848. 



The Cretaceous fossils collected by Abert at Poblozon, in the 

 Rio Puerco coal field. New Mexico, are described. (Poblozon 

 is a few miles north of San Ygnacio. ) 



3. 1848. WisiJZENUS, A. : Memoir of a tour to northern Mexico, connected 



with Doniphan's expedition in 1846 and 1847, 141 pages, 3 maps. 

 Washington, 1848. 



Geographisches Jahrbuch von Dr. Berghaus (Gotha). 1850. 



Abstract, Am. Jour. Sci., 2d series, vol. 6, pp. 376-386. 1848. 



For the occurrence of coal in the Rio Puerco coal field see 

 accompanying map. 



4. 1850. Simpson, James H. : Journal of a military reconnaissance from 



Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Navajo country. 



Reports of the Secretary of War, with reconnaissance of 

 routes from San Antonio to "El Paso, by Johnson and others 

 (etc.), 31st Cong., 1st sess., Senate Ex. Doc. No. 64, pp. 146-148. 

 Washington, 1850. 



(Pp. 72 and 146-147) Coal was found in 1849 on the Rio 

 Puerco north of Cabezon and at several localities farther west 

 in northwestern New Mexico. 



5. 1853. Hitchcock, Edward : Notes on the specimens of rocks and min- 



erals collected. 



Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in 1852, by Marcy, 



pp. 163-178. Washington, 1853. 32d Cong., 2d sess., Senate 



Doc. No. 54. 



(Another edition, pp. 140-155. Washington, 1854.) 



(P. 165) The paper contains a review of the occurrences of 



coal previously described. 



6. 1855. Marcou, Jules : Resume of a geological reconnaissance, extending 



from Napoleon, at the junction of the Arkansas with the Missis- 

 sippi, to the Pueblo de Los Angeles in California. 



