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



No. Date. 



Fe and samples of the anthracite from near Cerrillos were 

 obtained, but that localitj' was not visited. 



11. 1865. Owen, R. E., and Cox, E. T. : Report on the mines of New Mexico, 



GO pages. Washington, 18G5. 



Abstract, Am. Jour. Sci,, 2d series, vol. 40, pp. 391-392 (J p.). 

 1865. 



Anthracite coal, regarded as Carboniferous, is reported at 

 Placer Mountain (Cerrillos field) (pp. 23 and 40), and bitumi- 

 nous coal is reported on the Rio Puerco (p. 24). 



12. 1868. Hayden, F. V. : Rocky Mountain coal beds. 



Am. Jour. Sci., 2d series, vol. 45, pp. 101-102. 1868. 

 (P. 102) The author refers briefly to the coal beds in New 

 Mexico and includes them with his Tertiary lignites. 



13. 1868. Le Conte, John L. : Notes on the geology of the survey for the 



extension of the Union Pacific Railway from the Smoky Hill 

 River, Kansas, to the Rio Grande, 76 pages, 8°. Philadelphia, 

 1868. 



(P. 34) Coal is reported near Tijeras, New Mexico; at Tierra 

 Amarilla, about 120 miles northwest of Santa Fe (p. 36) ; in 

 Rio Puerco Valley (p. 41) ; and (pp. 38-40) the anthracite near 

 Cerrillos is described and also the occurrence of fossil leaves in 

 the rocks associated with it. The coal is referred to the Cre- 

 taceous and said to be older than the Laramie of the Denver 

 Basin ("Marshall formation"). 



14. 1868. Le Conte, John L. : Cretaceous coals in New Mexico. 



Am. Jour. Sci., 2d ser., vol. 45, p. 136 (i/o p.). 1868. 



The coal beds near Cerrillos are referred to and correlated 

 with coal beds described by Newberry in the lower part of the 

 Cretaceous of northwestern New Mexico. 



15. 1869. Hayden, F. V.: Preliminary report for 1869 (see 3d Annual Re- 



port, 1873). 



16. 1870. Raymond, Rossiter W. : Statistics of mines and mining. 



Report, 41st Cong., 2d sess., H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 207, pp. 1-80S. 

 Washington, 1870. 



The coal beds at "Old Placer Mountain ;" also on the Rio 

 Puerco, near Fort Wingate, and elsewhere are described (p. 

 417). 



17. 1871. Newberry, John S. On the age of some western lignites. 



New York Lyceum Nat. Hist, Proc, vol. 1. p. 252 (i^ p.). 

 1871. 

 The coal beds near Cerrillos are referred to the Cretaceous. 



18. 1872. Lesqxjereux, Leo : An enumeration, with descriptions, of some 



Tertiary fossil plants from specimens procured in the explora- 

 tions of Dr. F. V. Hayden in 1870. 



United States geological survey of Montana and portions of 

 adjacent Territories, preliminary report, F. V. Hayden in charge, 

 5th Report of progress (Supplement), pp. 1-22. 1872. 



