DURANGO-GALLITP    COAL    FIELD,    COLORADO-NEW    MEXICO.        257 
kcquired  by  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  which  is  making  surveys  for  a  railroad  line 
through  this  part  of  the  field. 
j  Including  the  Bruce  mine  and  surrounding  prospects,  the  workable  coal  beds  at  Fruitland 
seem  to  underlie  an  area  of  not  less  than  30  square  miles. 
!  In  the  northeastern  part  of  the  district  coal  has  been  mined  at  a  number  of  localities  near 
the  Colorado  State  line,  on  La  Plata  River  and  McDermott  Arroyo,  where  it  occurs  in  a  sin- 
gle bed  35  feet  thick.  One  of  the  principal  producers  at  the  present  time  is  the  Jones  mine, 
l£  miles  northwest  of  Pendleton.  At  this  mine  the  strata  incline  about  25°  southeast,  and 
the  following  section  is  exposed: 
Section  of  coal  bed  at  Jones  mine,  1\  miles  northwest  of  Pendleton,  N.  Mex. 
Ft.  in. 
Coal,  with  many  thin  shaly  to  bony  partings 1.5 
Coal,  with  three  or  four  shaly  partings,  varying  from  one-half  inch  to  2  inches .  33 
Shale J 
Sandstone. 
A  sample  for  chemical  analysis  was  taken  at  this  mine  in  the  usual  manner.  A  cut  was 
made  across  that  part  of  the  bed  now  worked,  which  consists  of  7  feet  of  clean  coal  without  a 
parting.  The  sample  was  crushed  and  quartered  down  to  convenient  size  and  sent  in  a 
sealed  can  to  the  chemical  laboratory.  The  result,  as  given  in  analysis  No.  2  on  page  258, 
shows  that  this  is  of  better  quality  than  most  of  the  coal  of  the  district.  The  moderate 
amount  of  moisture  indicates  that  this  is  a  bituminous  coal  of  nearly  the  same  quality  as  the 
coal  at  the  head  of  Beaver  Creek,  Colorado,  as  shown  in  analysis  No.  1,  but  the  greater  per- 
centage of  fixed  carbon  would  seem  to  indicate  that  it  is  of  somewhat  higher  grade.  When 
the  percentages  of  ash  in  the  two  samples  are  considered,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  Pendleton 
coal  is  very  much  better  than  the  Beaver  Creek  coal. 
