OCCURRENCE OF COAL. 41 
About 225 feet above this prospect, in a location that is difficult 
of approach, a bed 6 feet thick has been prospected. 
Along the cliffs between Price Canyon and Horse Canyon coal out- 
crops can be seen from the valley, but because of their situation high 
in the cliffs they are unprospected. Two beds of coal 4 feet thick 
and lying about 200 feet apart were measured about 10 miles north 
of Vv r oodside. 
At the western end of the area under consideration, in the vicinity 
of Horse Canyon, 6 miles south of Sunnyside, the coal has been con- 
siderably prospected. A large bed has been opened, and probably 
before long a mine will be located in Horse Canyon, although as yet 
there is no railroad connection and the property is 7 miles from the 
nearest point on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The coal 
is between 250 and 300 feet above the top of the Mancos shale and 
is immediately underlain by a bed of massive white sandstone. Only 
one main bed of coal has been found in the vicinity of Horse Canyon, 
although at Sunnyside there are two beds, but neither is so thick 
as the one in Horse Canyon. 
In the entry on the west side of Horse Canyon (No. 36) the following 
section was measured : 
Section of coal bed in Horse Canyon. 
Shale, carbonaceous. Ft. in. 
Coal 2 I 
Bone (i 
Sandstone and shale 1 6 
Bone I 
Coal 13 5 
Sandstone. 
18 6 
Serin, n of coal bed at prosper/ Afo. 36. 
Sandstone, thin bedded. ki. ;,,. 
Coal 2 4 
Sandstone and shale 1 i; 
Coal 9 2 
Bone 2 
Coal (i 4 
19 (i 
At a prospect (\<>. 35) a mile east of the last, the following section 
was obtained : 
Section of coal bed at prosper/ No. 35. 
Sandstone. i :. in . 
<'oal 2 I 
Sandstone and shale 3 
Coal (, 
Bone \\ 
Coal. 10 
Sandstone. 
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