Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1881, Page 10

CITICAGO generally prevalent Seqnont extremely that yoar an extreme that thne, and the con- Ww price of coal, makes unfayoradie one for a showlny of the coal products of this or any other district in the Stat ing year to June 1, IS8t, district was at least 25 por cent greater, and be set down at from 1,80 Tho syerage price of In 1870-'S0 nhowt & m 4) to SLU per ton efore, of the product for tho first of the two above yeurs was about and for the next year was from 33, ILLINOIS COAL. The Extent of the Productive Coal Field in the North Half of the State, Th the succeuil- te product of this Twenty-five Countics Out of Fifty- two in the District Now Producing Conl, MUER OF MEN EMPLOYED strict exclusively In the ecoalmines was fH) 1877 'sU 0 Httle over 4,000, and fn 1880 ‘SI probably about 5,000, dg the eval are pald by tho ton at prices ranging fron.80 cents to cents, according to the state of the demand for. Iavor and the Influence of strikes, ete. ‘The topmen and § Ahove ground, as well as the mule-lrivers, trappers, and others below ground reeelve on an average $20 per month, A good day's work fora miner fs three tong, - but tho average work of the utlners will not exceed two and t half tons per day, and thts for not over five days inthe week taking the year round, An overage day's earnings for aminer in the years mentioned was, there: ‘These fimures would show that In the years 1870-'s0 tha wages pald to ail the taborers about the mines amounted ‘The miners who Statement of Details of Production in Each for {he Year to June, all other employe: The Product in the Year to June, 1880, Placed at 3,- 763,162 Tons, fore, from 31.75 to $3, only $1.25 per. ton, it does not require much fguring to show that there was no operation of coal uilnes that ha great diference of $1.25 per ton at the mines—or even ® per ton and the price at which the con- sinner buys in Chicago looksas though there was ryont fora large proilt, but lu accord anes with the general contract made by all the ties with the ratlroads the latter re- ceive 0 per cent of the retail price In Cli for transporting the coal to the city. tls must be added And for the Year to June, 1881, at 6,000,000 Tons. Estimates of tho Future Inexhanstible Supply—10,000,000 Tons per Year : for 8,000 Yours, retail deulers’ profits, eartage, ete, Which all go to built up tho re- AW ritten fur the Chicaon Tribune, with st nited from Optciatand Authentic Suurcen| If we draw a ling from Kust to West ucross «the State of Ilinois about ten or twelve (es south of the Capital City of Springfield whl be lfty-two counthes north of ft. du twenty-four ot these coal is being mined toan extent thal makes it one of the inost Amportuat Industries of the country, ‘The most northern point al whlett cant is Inined in the State is ar Rapids Clty, in Rock Island County. ‘To trace approximately the outline of the coalfield In this northerts halt of the State, take the map and draw a line Ravlils City southeastwardly to the “northaest corner of Grandy County: thenee southeast to Witnington, tn WI Coun thence + santhwest fs the heaviest prod Stute, There are twenty mines “within radius of five “miles from? Strentor (and ducing vounty and Veru there are ‘seven shinfts, and at ‘These are nearly all fmportant auines worked Ly FH jarseilles, Ottawa, Seneca, and at a polit ten miles north of there ave also sinatler mines, ‘Tho totnl num- ber th the connty, both great antl small, ts <A good many of these, however, ust ernst. of Otlawa, are ? 1s they are enlled—that is, places where the edal fs so near the sure faee that only die superineumbent sollamd eravel drift have to be stripped off ton depth o twenty feet and the strat. mn ef coal quarried out, Tlis proximity of the coal lo the surface, however, usually In- dientes the cropping out of the eonl-seam at the boundary of the coul-feld, and in the o- cullty in question the seam Isonly sixteen to thick, wherens at Streator aud re it ein-only bo reached) by shinfts, Its average thickness. Is four fect. Lit Salle is a county full of Interest for the The * subcarbouiferous” torma- tous were avidently at one cine disturbed by 1¢ niichty upheaval, and in some age long brlor to the forination of the coal measure there was a mountain peak ata polnt where Uticn now stands, shown by the hydraulic cement rock whieh ronies to the surface, but which a few isiles away In any dlreetion Is thousands of Tevet betow the stirfner, in tho county east of Utien and on the north sidvof the Wingis River are found on the tops at the bluils, or, at least, on top of the sandstone clifls that border the Hlinols River from Utlea te Ottuwa, five miles te sho y of from twelve tho State to Wineheste thtnce northwestwaraly to Rushville Schuyler County; thence extending ‘to Tene we In MeDonetzh County: thence dl- reetly north to the Mississippi Rive fitteen miles west of Rovk Isiond, Jere the coat-bastn of Northern IMinais extends neross issippt River into Seott County, Towa, and is worked by half a dozen mines at several points from elght to ten miles This fs not properly a part of the * lows conl-tield? (whteh Hes at. Anost exclusively In the Des Moines Valley), bul a part of tho * [tnols coalfield 7 cut of Mm same prehistorle age by the breaking through of the Mississippi. River—or what- ever other enuse iniy have made the channel - for thabstreum—and itinay be here mentioned a8 an Interesting xeolugical fact that there fre evidenees that the Mississippt in Seott County; the ‘Town of west of Davenport, I the ‘eoal-mines But at La Sulle, only the coal Is reached shafts from 300 tu 400 feet deep, the county is the ntrnl,”” two and a half mfles north shatts In the great mining district of Streator yange from 100 t6 120 feet in depth. At La Sule two “seams of coal are worked which ls from three to six feet thick, and a lawer one which ranges froin three ‘to four At Streator tho avernze thick- about four and a | ‘The deenest shaft. in ant . Valley" nel of Rock yer at a point somewhere about the present eroasing of the Rov) Isl-' and Railroad, and thence down the Valley of the Rock River ton junetion with tho pres- chaniial, fonr or five imiles west of tho ‘ity of Rack Istand, ness- of tho coal-senn is haté to five fect. ‘The total coal, product of tho county in the yenr to June 1, 1880, was and In the year to dune 1, y not less than 1,0U0,000 ited that nt Ieast one-third of the entire nren of the county bears n seam of coal avernglng four feet in thickness, ‘ WILL COUNTY. ‘Tho mining district In this county ts con- fied alnost exelnsively to the ‘extrame southwesterst township, on 1 tract of Innd embracing d little over 19,000 neres around the Town of Braidwood, tho shafts of five mining corporations and. dirms, euch of which operates Its works with heavy muchinery and stenm-power, average depth of shutts here and the averuge thlekness of the sean worke ‘The total produet of the Pending Aug. 31, 1878, was eateulated by the County Ming Inspector at 20,000 tons,” In the yer to June 1, 1880, it was 540,000 tons, and” [1 teal muy be approximately stated nt 650,000 Us. about 800,000 tons, “I88l, was: prob: tons, It is estima NORTHENN ILLINOIS U8 given above shows not ‘only the limits within which coat fs now being produced, but also the Huts outsitte of whieh (exetipt- ing ns will be presently mentioned) thera is no probability of ever finding any eonsider-* ty of conlin the north halt of the “The ine drawn from Rapits .Chy to the northwest corner of Grundy County: ant thence to Wilmington slows. tho general course of the outerop of older geologle forina- tlons than the coal mensures. ‘This was nor albly once the northern margin of a inke or Bea extenting Indefinitly basin which was filled up by the deposit of the con! measures, ‘ary, as given above, from Winchester to the: AMississipnl, west of Davenport, was also dixed by tho same cattges as tho northern, As We £0 across the State toward the west from * the Ineot Springfield and Peoria all the conl-- sens gradually come nearer to the surface, vrop out and disappeur about tho western boundary given aboye, THY KASTEN NOUNDARY, as given above, from Wilmington to Pontiae, and thence to Danville, is unly conjectural. There imuy be vainable deposits of coal in tho western purls of. Kankakoo und Lroquols Counties, but if so they are ngs yet une known, aud the general On this tract are southward,—a The western bound- je yerr to June 1, The most important coal works in this county are at Coal City and at Brageyille, the eit the Intter place having been it winter hy the Chiengy, Mil- Wittkes & St. Paul vnllroad Company. ‘The shafts in this part at the county are from seventy to eighty feet deep and the seam of cont from three to four teet thick. At Morris tere cre about fifteen mines,butall operated ‘The shafts here are from thirty to forty feet deep and the sean of cont from two aud a hulf to three feet thick, ‘Th total product of the count) June 1, 1880, wi on a small seale, ¥ dn the year to as AboUL 200,000 tons. = NURLAU COUNTY hitcen coal mings, the ost finporiant eh ore, one at Sheltiel to and v hale miles east of wuilles enst of Unertan, and others jn the geologic feat- general outcropping and disappearance off iy toward the northeast in that ‘part of the State would argue ngalnst the one abn polnt uit, one” five “the southern boundary of the Northern Alinols coal-field, as given above, from Dane villo to Winchester, is to some extent arbi trary, Coal ts not produced in any of tho counties south of und adjacent to this tne wnul we get ug far west as Macenpin County. Hero there seems té be «a contiectiun or ox tension of the northern fell down to te im vortant Belleville district, oppusit St. Louls, and theues ‘further south to the southern fluid of tho State. It must not be assumed, however, thut there are no deposits of cont Jn the counties adjucent to and south of this County a shaft has Edinburg 350 feet, at which depth aseam of cout was found, but only elghteen Inches In thickness, and there fore not guilicient to puy for worklug. At Muattoun, ii Coles County, another shagt was sunk a year ugo to something beyond 800 feut, but without findingany seam of coal of sufictunt thickness to pay for working, THESE GENERAL FACTS, therefore, serve to show that the northern, western, and evatern boundaries of tho northern coal-Neld of the State ara. dotery. aiined by the coal seams oll cropping out and disappearing, and that the southern boundary (oxceptas mentioned In Macoupln County) was determined by tho gradual thinning out and disappearance of the sna senms nt great dupths; the growth of ee different .deptha below the surface, ‘The moft valuable one fs four and a half to tive feet In thickness, an excellent quatity of coal, being the same 3 Wa Loaf the depth of from 00 to 600 feet in La Salle County, but isin Bureau very hear the surtice, Just east of Buda, it is worked Ino At ‘Tiskilwa and at shalt sixty feet deep. Shetield tt is worked by drifts or tunnels entering the coul. sean from its outcrops in The geologieal surveys esti nunte that two-thirds of the area of the county is wndertaid by one or the other of the three seats of coal, any figures for the product of the mines ut Sheield, the product of the county for the year to dune 1, 1850, may be estlnated at Tron 60,000 ta 70,000 YENRY COUNTY, Almost the entire area of this coun vopt the three northenstern township: by une or more seams pf cou Aging from three to tive fect In thicl ‘There ava fitty cond wines In operntion In the county, the wost important of which are in the northwestern corner of th Briar Bluff, Edford, Green Hi dn the absence of ver, Genesvo, In all this part of the county the coal seams are from four and one half to tive fect thick, by drifts into the tiltle the soll and gravel an The next Important Joel: nd is worked either or by stripping off auurrylng It out, ity ix’ the yleinity where there tre several shafts front lve to 100 feut deep, and from which tha same seam of coal is worked ag nt Shot: jureau County, In Kewanee there ara nbouta dozen mines of Hut ‘besides these th pro mines in almost every purtof the county, ‘Ihe total product of coal in the county for the year to Juno 2, 1880, was about 225,000 uns. It $i possible that the vicinity of vegetation, from sinaller capacity, tahntlower depth of water than prevailed’ here at the tng of the formation of tha cont measures, ‘This apparent hiatus In ern oxtension of tuo coal tluil—whatever Us enuso—seonts to hea sufliclent warrant for dividing the cnal Meld of the Stale at the tne mentioned, ut least for deseriptive purposes, TU HEAVIEST PRODUCING DISTRICT in the State—though by no menus tho dis trict ty which are to be found the heaviest ileposits—may be outlined in general terms wbout os follows, viz,: ‘I'wo southwest town- ships of Will County ot Grundy County; three southeast towne “slips of La Salle County; and three north weat towaships of Livingston County—s dis ‘trict comprising about ‘ninety square sufles, and {n whieh there are about (ifty coal mines, the- majority. of them belug shafts. from KOCK ISLAND COUNTY ute of ubout forty mlnos, but ch have been so wearl olit by the corporations vu! wally operated thom that t abandoned to the operations of a few lndl- vidual miners, who are merely “draw! borts of the roof, and The most pro- ductive localities i the county have been at Bul the largest laces have been worked ‘The most Iuportant iy the eounty Jy next niost lmportant wi and Howlesburg, les cast from Malin swhich origl- hey have been piltars?? or st jetting the reo Tollow. nedr ishopt ullow, near dlamptoi mines at both these ol wlue flow in operation locality is at Cout ‘Vo about six or seven mil there ty a number of The scams of alx south townships small capnelty, was about 250,000 tons, ro the year to June f, 880, was tot above 200,000 tons, and for the ¥ to Tune 1, 881, not over 190,000 tons. "Che farge demand from stean bonts on the Mississippi River, as well as the numerous railways and manntacturing ex tablishiments concentrated nt the City of Roel Island, hes always iade an active de- mand for coal tt that potot and has stimu. fated conl-niting in the evunty to nn extent that ts rapidly exhausting tho supply there. Practical miners estiinnte that the coal de hosils of the county will be exhausted within five or six year: “MERCEIt COUNTY. ‘Khe six northeastern townships of thts county nre within the [hnitsof the productive conl-field, the sent wing ie anaverage depth of about forty-tive teot below the surface, and being workeit in atuwot alt localities by shafts of that depth. Tha most Important locality Is at Cable, to whieh point a railway has been constructed frou the City of. Rock Island for the yuirpose of bringing out. the con At this point the: gent of coat ts four feet thick, but thins olf to about two Tew miles te the westyfard ng the ey western boundard of the goat-tield 1s rencheds ‘There are twenty-tive miles In the county, the total product of whieh in the year to September, 1870, was 874075 tons. | In the year to dune 1, Isso, this was probably Inerensed. tu 60,000 tons. WANKEN coUNTY, Nearly the whote of this county, excent tha western tler of townships, 1g within the Hme , its of the productive conl-lelds: but the seams, which are thicker and deeper Below the surface to the eastward In Knox anit Pe- orla Counties, here become extremely thin, crop out on the surface and disappear, ‘There are over fifty mines in the county, but all of tho small class, enlled * gopher-holes,” being alrifts that are worked by one or two men it eneh, and ona sinall settle of produetion for Inunedtate local consumption. The sean of coal In all parts of this county varies from one and a-hnif to two feet fu thiekness, Che total product of the county Iw the year to September, 1870, was 17,000 tons, and" in the year to June 1, 3880, probally £5,000 tons. KNOX COUNTY. The north tilf of the contr, especially about Altona, Onelda, Henderson, — and Wataga, beats a valuable sen of cont of excellent quality and about four feet in thickness, but, owing to tho free supplies coming up from the mines fi Peorla County, the mines of Knox have never been deyel- oped to the extent their capacity woult {isis ‘Thore are in all about twelve nines in the county at the poluts above named, and their total product in the year te June 1, 1880, was about 12,000 tons, STARK COUNTY, Nearly the entire area of the county Is un- derlatd by a seam of coal trom three to four feet thick. ‘Tho most {important nine in the county Is that of the Lathrop Coul Compuny at Wyoming, which lng a shaft 128 fect deep, This mlng was produclag about 15,000 tons per annum. upto April, 1580, when the boiler exploded and the top works were burned down, sities whieh it has not been operated. ‘Phe other inines in the vicinity of Wyoming, ‘Toulon, and Modena are of mueh sinaller en nally ‘The total product of the fourteen ‘mines in the county inthe year to June 2, 1880, was about 25,000 tons, 4 MARSHALL COUNTY, A seam of coal three and a half feot thick |- crops out of the buf nlong the tlorth side of - the {inots River. from Spurland ali the way to Henry, On this the yarlous landowners, and farmers tre injning by drifts ina small way to supply local trade, ‘The entire prod- uetot the twenty-four mines In the county for tho year to June 1, 1880, was 0 tons, Horlngs for an artestan well at Spariand, have, however, shown that there Is another three and a half, foot seam of coal at the depth of 175 feet, which has never been worked in the county, LIVINGSTON COUNTY. ‘The seam of coal worked tn this county Is the same us that worked at Streator, boing abqut the same thicknegs and worked by shafts of corresponding depth. In the year to June t, 1880, three mines at Falrbury ‘pro- tluced 27,700 tons, one at Pontiac, 3,500 tons, and six mines in the extreme north cor- ner of the county, near Streator, 64,400 tons, iuaking a total of 4,600 feng, WOODFORD CoUuNTY has but ong ming: thts Is 0 shinft operated nt Minonk, 655 feet deep, having the second deepest shaft In the north half of the State, ‘The product of the nine In the year to June 1, 1880, was a little over 100,000 tons, “e ; LEONA COpNTY ‘had fifty-five mines In operation at the ond of 187, All of these ure dn the southwestern half of the county. All except twelve of these are along the vatley of the Klekapoo Creek and on tho Hne of the C., B. & Q, Kalle way between Peoria and Elmwood, a dis- tance of twenty-seven nilles, ‘being un aver: fige of one ifne to every two-thirds of o wile. ‘Tho'other twelve are located wong tho Jing of the Wabash, St. Louls & Pacific, be- tween Veorin and Mapleton, a distance of eleven miles, The thickness of the seam everywhere along these lines averages Just about four feet. Along the line of the Wabash Railroad as far as Mapleton {it averages about four and one-half feet, and in the vicinity of Patts- town, on the C,, B.& )., fs ree {to about three and one-half feet, but everywhere olse the average Is a ttle dver four feet. Four- fitths of all the mines are dritts, rin into the cont seam ata level about twelve to fifteen feet above the bed of Kicknpoo Creek, ‘Chere fre bue elghet shafts in the county, the deap- est of which iy sixty feot. : ‘The total product of the county In the year to Oct, 1, 1878, was 204,800 tony, and in the Year to June 1, 1880, 310,800 tons, FULTON COUNTY, The principal seam of coal worked in Peoria County extends tito Fulton, but there are nlsy others tot found in Peoria. ‘The entlre area of Fulton County is underlutd by one or more of these seams, moaklug in the nggreeate vn henyler deposit. of oul than is found in any other county Inthe State, At Farmington, Fairview, Canton, Rawalt, and other points in the northoastorn quurter of the county, it la worked in most cases by shafts from fortyto sixty feut deep, tho seam yursing from three and ond-balf to live feet tu thickness, In tho vicinity of Clver und Cuba the shafts require to be somewhat deeper and. the seam [3 thle! At tethurforu’s mine, twa males north of Cubs, there Is a six-foot seunt of rather poor caul twenty fect below tho surfucs. Eight feet below this fan iyo. foot scam oft bete ter quailty, and twelve feet Lulow the hyt ane Other totr-toot veum of gyod con), presumer to bu tho wuine ae worked un Kickupoo Creek, In- -Peorla County. It ty ago elujmed tua thirty- five feot beluw this Inst fs stil another anita tive feot thick, Jn the nelebuorkoud af Eiisvilte there ure ffgeon or twenty miues worked by: dritteon a sdum about three und one-half to four feet thick, About Avon the seam begins thin out, and dogs not average moro than two fect in thickness. Following down the Valley af Spoon itiver the sou be» oomes thicker, and ut Tater Hollow and Babylon da tive feut thick, and ao neur thy wurfnea tht in the creuk nt Whitebund’s Banks ut the former plnse she bod of thy erect 1s asulitl masa of coal ive feel thick, At Stoningtonand seville, whorg (hero are n great number of banks, it Is nearly as thick, Furthor down the river, at Bornadatte, the deam Lbind out to twonty-eight Inches, and ds so near the surfuce ns to be worked either by drifts or by stripping of tho superincumbont gotl, At the mino nt Avtorin, worked Uy Bhatt, tho seni fa six feet thick, and six miles north: oagt: of Astoria, ut Summum, thers are two suns, One ve fevt and the other six feet thick, with only a stratuin of clay and suite, faur tect thick, between them, . {here wre mines in every ks of the county, the total number bulng W fittle over 100, ‘The totul product for the your to Juno 1, 1880, wus ourly 147,000 tons. 7 * SCHUYLER COUNTY, : Phe six-foot woam worked at Astoria in Puls tol DUE extends into Bebuylor County as fur tuspvilio, whore tt ia still tye feet thick, and is worked by three diferent hatte n few. jalles nortthenat of that pluco, ut an averuxe Hopi aft forty feet, West of Itushvitle, huwovers | Huon thing outtoubuut thirty inchos, and the mosi western potnt at which It is worked ut ull fe 1 Camden, avout stx unites vorthwest of Rushville, Here all con! svnins sisapucar on the weatorn edge of tho lilinoly coal Held. Thore are only ten nines $n (he county, and wll of small produde Hon; the nxgregato tor tho your bving only wbout 6,000 tong. ‘ AGH COUNTY, At Hlu€ Spring, on tho Olio & Mississippi Railroad, In this county, @ seu of cont from two to threg Feet thick crops out along the face Of the blult which fuces the Milnols iver Vale loys ‘Tle seam fa oxposed at various placos for wdistance of four or five illes, and undoubted- Uy auderiies 4 linge portion uf the county to the custwurd, | But the supply of coal trom Sane amen and Fulton Counties bas been so abun. ant that there hus bown ne demand for this, ond it bas not beep operuted except dine vory ginal way for beveral years. ‘ M'DONOUGY COUNTY, ‘The wines of Ncbonough County are avarl: all locatea Iu tho fusmediute viehaity oF Cul cheater und Tennosse, Tho groater bulk of the coat fs producod from two sbufts of different. companics uenr Colchester, these shafts beng from forty to fifty {cot dean, usides thosu twa there ure twenty-vine othur sinall shafts and Irreguluy | ‘drifts operated within a radius of alx pulles trom 125 to 150 fuet deap, and B fow innes worked dy drifts or Jovels into the prodyet of this district In the year to June 1, , 16s, was in round numbers just about 1,500,- 00 tons, But the open wiuter ut 1870-'30, the depression of mauufacturing usluess depths as compared with the 4 thoy ara uso yery’ dng from two and one-hele to ng Oh the extruine northern coultield they are ju the forin of 4 For the yeur end- uct of the county thickness, ran ing July, 1978, the totul prod Colchester and. ene near Busbuell. AU those wines, excopt the one wear Uushnoll, work tho same “sean Of coul, which ts abd} two feet thick. Tho quality is quite digerent froin any other coal fouud tu the Stato, bolug cowparyr Hyely tree frau sulphur, and briugsu bigbes gree than aay other Uinols coal. “Tho supply lor the Vity of Quincy comes uluost ey Tho total product of tha avery one fs now safe, mines fn tho county for the your to Junio J, 1880, ns erected by the rallron seo fortably 200 0) 3 veenpled by of ny, telegraph-oftice, bazguce t the Southern Poelse J h rans to Callforuia, % NEW MEXICO. A hotet has hara been company that aceom- Aly the Plutout nthe yolcante. enrefil examin contd be fou the: volennic MENARD COUNTY, Jn this county aro two seams of coal, one About threa feet thick and nother six feet tho frst of those seams Is worked nt adopth af about fifty-five feet. and pth of saventy-lve to 100 fret, tor roan t3 worked by shifts ‘here aro seven mines in tho county, and their total product in tho year to was 18,402 tons, and not very eto Jin 1, 1880, Loan county, There fs but one inino in Logan County, lo cated at Lincoin, and opertted by a atatt 230 Tho thicknessef tho seam Is tive feet two Inches, and: the total promuet of the nilno fur the year tuduno 1, 188), war 60,000 tons, fourteen inines, all in they vielnity of Pekin. ‘The prineipal seam: of eoat is from four to four and one-hilf tect thick. and Is worked by shifts from elghiy to 10d fect deep. Anothor seni, alaa two und one: halt feet thick, Is worked ut a depth of 15 fect. ‘The total product of the county for the yeur to Jtna 1, 1850, was 40,00) tons, MLEAN COUNTY hins tho iteopest shaft in the north half of tho State, bette tint of tho McLean County Cont Compuny at Bloomjogton, whiel ts AW fuet de ‘This slingt penctrates three seams of coul—viz.t ane thres feat tive inches thick nto depth of 2X6 feet, one four teat thrao t depth of 890 fact, and one two reetelght Inches thick ata depth this shaft (het ‘Was 03,000 Cons VEUMILION COUNTY, ‘Tho produotivo coal district of this county Is embraced withiy a radius of about iifteen mites horthwest and eouth from the City of Danville. There nre two seams of cout here, one About thirty fect above tho other, and onch ranging from five nna on tulf to six fect in thickness, Hoth of these nre exposet to view in the faco of the biuits on tho wost side of Grape Cravk, about twelve miles south of Danvil Rreateat dopth below the surface at whieh either of thesy scams had boon reached Is by a at Falrinount. ‘The decpest around? Danville ure fron 10 feet, while in muny places both sautns crop out and are worked clther by drifts Within tho distriat mentioned thare were fifty-two mines in operation at fut in the summer of 1880 operations were begun ona large suaiy by the 9 Creek Coul Company at bout ten miles autho: the lower of tho two scams of coal is exposed. Extensive works wore erccted, a rafiway tv con nect ut Dinville with oll the other railways was bullt, and the work of mining was commenced with 9 force of 200 mon and five alr-compressinic entting wichines, By winter the product of this mino was from 10 to 200 tons per day, and preparations word niadu for such an Inercasa that the produat of the tine for tho yerr te Juno 1, 1881, would be nbout 150,000 tons, For the your to dune 1, 1840, tho total of the fifty-two imines’ then in operation was 21,000 toug. The better demand and inure uctive operation of the coul mines everywhere in the Stute during tho winter or with the winter of 1870- duction of the same fifty-two mines 450,00 tong dn tha year to J this wa add 60,000 tans for: the productof tho new ming. on Grane Creek, it woutd inake the peaale vor 600,000 tong for tho yer to June J, Bot the compa: A Country with Great Natural thick. | At Potorabury ‘Advantages and Resour- thy ecennd at nde} «At Athons tho In! 1 feot deep, Ti cause of there theory that fs rapid) 3 NO longer consllere the. oltlest formatie eut through by wrosty enous, which nt th Hes at nn altitude of re tae ni feet above the sen, horth of west. tron Wis renched by a dally Hne of Tho rond clreails around the Black Keross Antslope Plulin, which ax. tends to the boundary of Olt AL the Membres River. goverell wilh nutritious grass, kne two ranches along this One fs known as Hudson Spring, which fy rapidly becoulng noted for its imedielnal pertics, ‘The temperature of the water is. nhelt. ‘The spring risus in largy rock, on the top of a The component parts of the water are fron, sadn, properties not w few invalids seeking health. ‘Thus far the Water stdered a specific for kidney and rhennintisin 8, Alongs the valley of the Sf t these raiches, are flue tells of tomatoes, and p growth and quality, Silver City bas a population of 2,000 and THE DEST IMPROVED TOWN The bulldings are chictly of them two stories high, jarge two-story briek scho: Rrated sehools, two Jarge sinelters and one stamp-mill, Tho’ town ts compnetty built, and shows both on- It ls the county-svat of County, The buslvess-houses carr: henvy stocks of gonds suitable to both retal and Jobbing trate. The Co. carry a stoc! valu, This is the centre of n extending In some directions over fifty miles, Jt fs reported that the bullion: product of this county Inst year was over # 0000, Near this city a farmer trom Michigan has settled, who ins tried the experiment of planting seed from tho States, with great His corn flelds will yleld not less Ig to tho acre, and other’ Some of the Towns That Have Sprung into Existence Keptember, 187, dierent from t eaches the seedia he footet the ri hosits of gravel, rap out are find ean be tracer I dtreetion belt The whole e ‘There are only: The Mogollon and Other Ranges of Mountains, and Their Mineral Sazewell Comey degrees Fale! the centre of n Queen Lode ru West of north, ere ate constantly ta bo restored has been con- New Mexico Central & Southora Ratl- road Company~Tho Troublo. CHEST GOLD-FORMATIO; some Redsktn. @ issays being West of south, Special Correspondence of ‘The Chicago Tribuns, Socouno, N. M., Aug, 25—No one ean travel through New Mexico and not bo: hn- pressed with the svonders that appear on every hand, ‘Ihe country fs new to Amorf- cans, yet old tn history, tho Spaninrds who caine inte this land over 500 years ogo lave mate no progress what- ever. ‘They still ive In the same one-story tudobo house, cultivate the sof! with the sane oll wooden plows, and ettltivate no more Innd than their wants seem to demand, Should the crops fall they live poorly, thelr happiness being more or less dependent on the amount of corn, ehillt, and soft beans they have toent. ‘They are strongly attached to thelr relatives and carly home, and hence seldom moye any distance from the place of thelr birth, ‘Ihe population hus not improved In quality during these many years, It isno longer Castilian, but A DEGENERATED PEOPLE— amixed race—of Indian, negro, and Spaniard, The Mexican Js an fsoluted people, which ling received ng new blood or impulses of su- perlor quallty from’ outsidy races, become stationary and fixed In hinbits of thought ond natural wants. We look in vain for advangement In any direction, z Injustice is often done tho country by thoso who Judge of i from looking at the people; by this test the country would for- ever remain a barren waste. ico has soil, climate, and’ natural wealth in great abundance, and requires only a popu- tation which will become acqualuted with the soll, and adopts proper systein of farming, with due regard to the sensons, to ralye very largo and profitable crops of almost every kind, ‘This 1s the rainy season, and the whole country Ig coyered with green grass; even the foot-hills and lower modntait-ranges are green to thelr summits, cattle and flocks of sheep that are seen are in excellent condition; and these are chiefly owned by Amerieans, New Mexivo Is a tablo-land nearly 7,000 feet nbove the sea-level; is broken by ranges of mountains which in many places rise 2,000 or 3,000 fect above the general surface of the country. The atmosphere is dry; but little rain fails, oxcopt in the months of July and tables of splen mn these different meunitah les near the suri it advantage e¢ put of inines he absolute he; Work can be en year. Mountuln-fever, ilsvasey yo prevalent § known here. “The nye: of tha thermometer Is The air ty cry, Hinted by fresh bree: supply of water Is ellmate ts eortain be found In nny par From Socorro w NEW MEXICO Cc , i 0 tho only mine in the county) In New Mexico, brick, aint inmost The descendants of bullding, wi terprige and wealth, drm of Meredith, Kk of $100,000 itt not and abunit large ining shaft 180 feat dee: shite Frittata or by stripping. has ¢ 3 the close of 18, I He completed Its a bale befcre ot rh 'Y fy made upof nineter: ecuind Gi, Suieias, petgent Sucorre Rauge, the mineral be! misses the foot-hills of the I, jturns to the southwest about two-thirds of the Ma alns; cuts the north end of runs tho entire length of the alns, which ure very. but of low-grid SMoutitaing are crossec tho Sierra Montosa | belt of the Montosa crossed, whieh fs the as yet in te jerritor ; uv the south, is covery to the waist, and Ig ‘This plain is from thirty and about 100 miles long. alr, 1. C, Patterson, hats the finest rane! lived hore for point on Grapo: Psi Manville, where crops about in the san Oe St Louls, perlmont shows that a c that used for the Jast cans is necessary to insure Chinaman is here, with Yervtubles, which si everything planted, THE TRIP FROM Tits TO THE MOQOLLON ize of seed from 200 yenrs by the Mexi- ood craps, The lars gurdens of, how luxuriant growth of tieh in mineral je ores, ‘Tho Gall at the south end, Ranges and the mf) and Gato Mounta richest galenaore adistance of 1: #0 miles, was taken by private conveyance, and extended through the Goy- erninent Reservation, aka considerable dls- ver, which heads in runs south of ‘rancisco on the pe. Here nnd there along the tches of considerable size, One #0 of forty miles, owned b of Socorro, on which feed 5,000 le, The grasa is considered yery nutritious. in fine condition for market, tha surrounding mluing camps. for beef.. llere tov isa cheese-factory, w! Which utilizes the milk heese Ig very fine, and finds nr ready sale.on the ranch at 15 cents a inthe near distance ure the Burro alng, which divide the Atiantle and Paciite River are” corn splendid growth and large yield. talus away from the mountalus, ys among them, are very productive—the s-Rrowth being thick, strong, and tall. ic soil ii composed of a consiterable Inyer of vegetable mold, which Is followed by layers of earth made by decomposition of, The geologteal formation has. bi caused by eruptions which took place in the early perlod of tha Karth's formation, or in a. Jaterepoch, of the tins of which Science fur-, Itus clear that these erup-, 80-8], us compared 8), would make the pro- But New Mox- euters the San Dinek grammia, ‘The cattly are and are sold to BANGAMON COUNTY. * 6 conl-senm worked In this count: dust about six feet in thickness, ani extends under tho entire aren of the county. tho Statu Geological Surveys it ie indicated ns Senm No. 6, being. the tlfth ‘one in tho arder of ther formation, countlug from the lowest or in New Mexico, dina been in many WE KILLED THIRTY und it was not'a good day for Indians the Indians fear : “the long-haired Texlea: Attack hint in thel tempt tu take his enttle, fayorably known throu Tho few herds of nor do° they at- ughout the Territ he road branches nu of He the norchwost ldo of the Ilinols Itver of cient thickness to nay for working; tho sens worked north of tho lilinofs ure muinly Nos, 4 and ¢, one belng of eariler aud the athor of later doposit than this in Sangamon County. tl f tho county, ut Pleasant Piaing, vot suam (No, 5) 18 reacnod by a shut 100 feet deep, The seam gradually dins to tho enstward, so that at Springteld itis reuched by Thore are thirteun mines in tho county, threo of which are new shafts, oponed In the fall of 188), 1870, thora were but nine mines in operation, Tho total product of these running southeast to the Bi | it takes in the entird minera lente (Hot Sprin teo Mountains, ee, Wild Horse, Chio rf mtnes lave been inoderately worked, itera Mountalns the graz- Snow iles here but a few ‘ear round, This strikes the Ozo Call foot of the San Mu celebrated Ivanho Polomas, and othe: are now betng a\t Uo foot of the L ing Is. superior. days.. Water pasttisocboll Js rolling, 2 square, and comparatively unocen this belt are a few alkali the purpose. of galt gave this expense to this comes Patten Jandsenne-scenery 1 trees of ditiereit varieties, 'T! are on the right and Elk Mount- I Here are deer, bear, and other game in al ry of every liue—flowers of every color—water, rock, and liti—all tend ne. Ilere too, near the Rehatysw fect dcup. in the year to Sept. But little whent has been raised, yot suft- clont tests huve beon inade to show that it CAN UE GUOWN IN ANUNDANCE. At this season corn-ilelds are seen in every part of the ‘Territory that rival those in Mis- sourt or Iilnots.” All kinds of veg ure ralsed In great abundance, Tho Spanish settlers hugged close to the Bio Grande, and their descendants remain thero still, The length of this’ river, in its windings through tho ‘Territory, 1s about 1,200 iiles, and its valley {s from one to twelve miles wide, In 1870 this ‘Territory had 8 population of 01,878, mostly confined to this valley, The Territory includes an aren of 100,000 ¥quare miles, or about an area ag New. England States with New York and Now Jursey added. It will be seen from this that the greater portion of this ‘erritory ng not been tho home of the Mexican, but remains untniiabited to this day; and St can be truthful for thut year was In tho year to dune 1, 1830, there Were ton shafts tu operation, and tholr aggre. gate product was 450,000 tons, the now mines In the fall of 1680, together with the incrensed production of the mincs ulready a, In consequonce of the inercascd el in the wintor of 183-'8], would Provably increase the aggregate product of the county for the year to June), 1881, tonbout Is plenty the y alshes. no ‘data, tions took place ‘ FAR BEYOND HISTORICAL TIMES, and, whether from carth action, no one can can t The opening af to the cattle, and thus erttle-owners, ‘yond. Valley, which In poiutof Is unsurpassed, juake or volcanic Tho soll con-, hosphoric acid, and other In- srediauts which make the most praductive ps of Brain and fruit now cule, jettles béyond dispute that New Mex- prominentin these produc ofitable homas for the MORGAN COUNTY. soil, ‘The cro) 9 samo scam of coal so extensively worked Eungamon County oxtonds into Blorgan County, and also gomoof the other scams tht are so jurgely developed and worked in Sohuyler: Fulton Counties, put owin supply from Sangumion Vounty the vonl-depos- itsof Morgan are not worked to wny coneftera. ble oxtent, In tho ylcinity of Neclyvillethore are tivo mines in operation, Uct of whlob Is bunt 14, ico*will become tions, and wirl a farmor and frult-growe fhe only town in the Mogollon Mountains 4s Clearmont, which nestles inn smal has about: 100 people, The ‘siscoveries, pyer within a: rom.tlils town are wou, jedges are large and rich, and! this eamp, as the question of possession has ested by tha Indian until, just few months, and the road thither has beon during that time the theatre bloody and barbarous scones, It is l to travel, and all whoun-, ily armed, and keep a SHARP OUTLOOK FOR THE UNFRIENDLY ZAV- ‘OE to the charming sce: middle of this valley TUE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. altitudo ts 7,600 fect above the sea. [era ‘ht the eye and feast the ere this’ hus existed fog erhaps an occas ra day to feask is Valle Bonito, a small 100,000 head of aud-waters of the Negreta along which stream the Mo- gollon Mountains are reached from the north; and here begins the great timberbelt, over this road, New Mex- ty building material of the Over all this vast unvceupted territory there Is no poor Innd, no bad water, ho unhealthy climate—but one vast stretch of land that’ should tempt the hardy pioneer and ludustrious young man’ from the States and fiuprove, The only obe 6 urged against this ls TUE TROPBLESOME INDIAN. This will soon bo r present stunner hag been ane of great loss i@ people of New México. ut rent tribes, under oll Nana, gether for mntrder sud rob bery, and lave done a erent deal of both. ‘Thoy Havé'been | guilty of ome of the most fiendist nets, ‘They take no prisoners, and wil! not be taken alive, they have killed about 100 citizens and sol- ders during the ‘month of August. On the {ith of August El Bitu, a lictle town on the A. P, Rullroad, was entirely wiped out— Wonty-seven Men, women l engaged in mining. Cha mearometn prods, old, silver, muyd) co} ede We ti Js evorything to-tell; + | Joreg.a8 all of; th {maxiiation, And fiere centuries, In solitude, with sional traveler who stopped the grand scene, Beyond the Divide | in which. now herd i The scams of: coul thu out tn this co} ‘on the western border of the coalfield. At Winobester a shalt: 120 feet deop reaches a seat of coal thirty inches thick, and at Exetor there nia sevoral small dejfts worked foro tow the immedinto Pproduet of otho county for the your wus not nbove 8,000 tons, TOTAL SUPILY, ‘Tho figuras given for cach of thn twenty-fvo car to June, 1880, make pn 162 tons, this belug the frst statement cver mada (exeept by rough estimates any considurable portion of ‘This statement, ft will be rememberod, Is not for the whole Stato, but for all that. north of the lus of Bt counties north of that dne which arg pot wen Uoned among tho twenty-tlye referred to do not Produce any cont. This, bowover, docs not argue that thore ure no coul deposits in any of then, Tho countics of Iason, Do Witt, Macon, Pin ign, Ford, aud Putnam are all witht mits of this northorn coulsfold of the State, and jn al probability possess yuluable posits of con! which will yet bo developed, ‘be year ending June 1, compilation of unfortunate one, for the reason was Iiehtor than it was in elther tha procedin, or tho followluy yeur. ‘Bho winter af 187{-' was an unusually mild one, and the demand for domestic nse of cont was not so lurge ad in tho winter uf 1878-'70, and not more than hait ua urene ag in the winter of 1A4)'8) banksang ainall mines throughout the State whieh are operated only Sor # supply of coal for inthe winter of 1kbd- ‘81 to Curniah double the quantity they did in the winter of I870-'8),- ‘Tho bunks and mines of this ulugs produca nt teust one third raised Inthe north hulf of tha State, There wos nlso on Increased demand cstablishinents and q not only in conscquenco of the greater xovority of tho ely on aecuunt of the reviving. ustry ang traiic, Tholarge mines that supply this clisy of demand led upon for an increased supply chat percont over thoir supply y f, therofore, wo tuke raduct for the 1880, and double {t and thon a y the romuinder, it would give 5.G18,206 t product of the same numbbr of Yeor ta June, 148}, Me near the sui been strongly con y suid that this is . River are here, TIE UEST PORTION OF IT, portion which has fine streams, fore tile valloys, and mountains of great mineral wealth, ‘This {sg now open tothe intelligent and brave American, who Js moving In to en- joy the splendid adyanta, dertake it go heay whieh will supply, ico and Arizona w finest quality, counties for too AGES, nggremite of 3,70! whose daily business 3t 13 to kill and rob. Whilst in camp at Holt’s ranch, at mfdnight, Q courler came shouting hat.the Indians In heading for- the There werd tf of the product a} tha ilinois conl- tte! wes of both home ‘Thts Is an old country; for, when the Cas- tila came In the year 1537, the Az Jong disappeared, “The ruins of that people remained in the wonderful walls and welrd houses that Une had falled to level the Chincso sage, ten up In tha fare for war and con- struck the Pacitle Ocean, and was inet by a very destructive storm most of the vessels, an re not were tIriven to the west- ward. Jt, is belleved by many that some of these vessels reached the North American Continent, and that the ‘crew sutiled there, the origin of the Azteo orted by the fact that the jon of the Aztevs and the Chinese . 1S ALMDST IDENTICAL, It is true that the Chinese settle in thia ‘Verritory, i imuges and charms mude of precious stones that they understand and set areat store by, nel long, nude of ture it way shown toa Chj- Donn, Who al ones named if, and sald that tho priests wore tt, and that those who wore ivcould not be harned eltuer b, devil, Nothing of this kd tho tradidons of the Spaniard. ‘Chere are iuany other slullar things coming to Heht that support this theory, kane, and the Mexican 1s going, for the Aterican {fg voming, and comin ‘Towns are springing itp us Hl by ALBUQUERQUE, mi Atchison, is an American Wot Many months old, and has nv on of 1,500 people. roud two amifles lon, many other publis Ispatch trom rs Mountaing!”” Mrteen in the company, each’ tmington and-six-shooter; hut no one was anxious to meet thered man. Scalps! then, ‘To return meant to! met the hostess to zo on was to be over- ‘onversation was carricd on in a low tone of voice, watched until the moi it was resolved to advance, with one-of the rty on horseback.to keep a-aliort. distunee @ cavalende moved out and on, with the figstilesone hundred mites nway. Clearmont is at the end which extends north and wi and averages fifty nilles wid yellow .vine, and spruc e th ek on tha grountag any forestin America, Tho trees are numerous in diameter and 100° f whilst several mensure six. and across, and are considera! length. Near this tinther- ries, wild currants, gooseb ries, and cherries in great al forest aboundsin elunamon bear, w! to.come cultlvat Jection that can. with tha dust, rene te eels writes of au expedition got back ‘ages by the ‘Tartars ‘emoved, although the ‘The party walted and. rning dawned, when | hays banded to; which wrecker the ‘opportunity for those that we: It ty esthmated that est aver 1001niles, Tis {3 one theory of de, ‘Thedintber Is race; and tt ly sayy naud elildren bes rons Socorro they killed five Americans (eltizens), two mlners, and three-Mexfeans, aking ten in all. Or the ith of August, at Carlzo.Cafon, near five Indians iu a strong posi cd by Capt Charles Parker, Ninth ‘Cavalry, with nineteen attla Justo two hours, Capt es ghot trom under hluy was slightly wounded in the leg, and uuirked on the right cheek by in lost two nen ki wounted, but Infileted: considerable Toss to Caut. Parker isa Chicago wan wis educated in Chicago University, He haw beau fighting the Indians since the Rebelllan closed, und is regarded in Ash Mexico ng one of the most couragraus and sticcessful Indinn fighters. It Is thn Judiuns should cease, frequent outvreaks and the crue} murders porpetrated by them OUUNT NOT TU DE TOLERATED, It seems they will not stay on their reserm® Uons, but once a year or oftener brexk out on ralds for -robbery and murder, Tho ote rugcous manuer In which they treat he wounded it dead that fall Into their bands, the wore thin death tre Mot iuensire three All tho small coat eoplo, as thay nt inany Tttle above 100 feet 111 elt are raspber- erties, atrawber- bundanee, ‘This nine,—deer, elk, turkey, ote, One of a surveying party. shot before breakfast one morning seven turkeys and two deer, This 3 the sportsuinn’s paradise: no tedious hunt or Jong walls for gaine sides, and very plentifu. ‘TNE MOUOLLON MOUNTAINS are seventy-five miles lor enst and northwest, ‘The 8 same direction, and axtends about 100 les, ‘Tho distance between these.moynt- 1 ranges is from twenty-tive to 100 mile: rain tha Blas ountalns are still west of the Mo- ley of from ton to thirty ‘These mountains are broken upt, tall peaks. ‘The valley {3 crossed Creek aud Mineral Creuk, three alles of ench othor 1 ure of clear, cold water, and are suld to bo lon Mountatns, and on the THE TOWN OF ALMA ' out, Ono stone building, 190x. ed, and a respectable J, G, Barney & Co. Famallur buildings are there, ‘The valley fs al this place, and domestie congun sieinity wero calte Sablnal, twont Au image about au fi ton were atta quolse, was found ne: evidently very old. {com manu fuotar ing ker had two ho dnd is known among er al it 3 here ig on al 1, and run south- ek Range rns 853 miles fro war with the inines for tho But to this muse also be added the product of new and extensive mines apened in response to tho Increasing demand tn 1840, suvh wa thos at Grape Crook, tt and the govern] new shatts In je, and other counties, It hns a streo nfting large hotel, and iprovements, ‘Che town is Tuviting In supearance, and Its people are inlles between, aetlye and public-spirited, Vormition Coun Sangamon, 11 Bull would probubly bring the agereynie tho ycar to June 1, Iss), up fo near u THE FUTURE SUPPLY, estimute of the cupaolty of tho coal-flold ‘stton to supply tho Incrosaing demands of Must Of Course bo purely confucturnl, Novertholves, there ure some fai Buch catiaute cnn he based wit ttude to convineo: aven tha most skeptical that there need nover bo a doficionoy of fuel in Mit things that will over so jo coat Of labor and trans- TUE CALCULATION, Jn wmuny of the twenty-tive countios above, ontimeyated there arc two or more se: id in very miuny pinces these mas. trated by onu shaft, ‘The average thi Ong of these sous is four foot, ‘This ood us the average of ull the coun. We may therofure busy enicutntion on the general extent of one fours fovt souin of coal throw ree wholly or 1,027 miles from Atch}son, lies at an altitude f 4,605 fuct above the sea-level; has a popu- Jution of 3000 people; and, ‘whilst olght Months agp but one or two Aimerlean families lived herd, one-half the population now fs e largest stores are owned by The best hotel Jn the place fs the ublauitous Ohio man, ore splendid orchards of apple, lonted down with excel ‘he peach ts of good sJze, aud ric! favor, Many of the trees wi would Indicnte from thelr ull of fifty years old, wl and crowned with fruit, BAN MAKCIAL,. h, ta oniy a few months old and hugs a population of abont250—ail Aniui a Santa Fb duposits of the 19 that wondertully rich jluerat to say nothing of iment that women and ehifdren ree tiie should call out a determi vein from existence. ‘The of.no use to Lhemselves, and certainly to to the civilized people Hv Ine of their periodical ratds, Indian isn dead Indian, and the svone undo sate the better, 1 wi}], at auother thine, g! the different mining ¢ t ear the Mogoll San Vranelsco Riv ets upon which, H wufidlent, core 25 feet, ns bi ale, aad that the ont is carried on by. orn the price wi ‘ to ean accoun Portation, it New Mexleo. Wintrast 5, EVERETT yy Americana, ten iniles “wide at Season presquts a beautiful prospect. Ln the hear diitancy ure broken fuot-lills that rise b above the general level, nll rowith green realized that this I 8 from Chicago, VANIOUA = MINENAL-BEANING = MOUNTALN- frlllog, bone. thirty miles 1 errlilos, ubout thirty miles in Gallons, about gixt ucorros, Hix tiles, ‘Twenty m Range; and at about the Nee West coms the Man Matena id successively by tho Slogolions” aro at of them have rich mineral East of the gallos rena, where the kee Boy, and en discovered untains nara twenty-five miles west of 8 of turquoise is anid third deposit of ‘turquoise four The only other place whe ne Is found ty In Persia. splendid turquoise In the Ris- ‘owl-Jewels came from tho mine tn the which was Ww tT #,000 years ayo, yot are vigorous = ——_ THE WAY OF THE WORLD, For The Ohteuyo Tribune, a ereruys a bolted brows Dee few He Klased tho gontle Vivlor thy Down in tho yal Call the war! * Wait hers=I will coo VN not forget, Quyty be sped aordsa tho Summor-dny. Dow froma warden wall upon bls wo; A red itosy leaned, Bo sensuous, 6 7 souched pls Souibare nature with welt y “Tell tay (by ngyie.” t Sho suid, ee thou canst bysr. Robbed uf his strongth, and of his honor sh! (Tho Hose hat dropped ‘hor feaves and ebow! the blisses i Yar Kisses 1,055 miles sout! pout all the counties mbracod fn the Itults oF tlinolé coalefold, as describod at the heyinning of this artiuto. ‘Phe totu) area of thirty, within the boundarie ‘vEwo counties embruved 8 of tho conl-fold us de werlbed Ja 14,804 square miles. If now we deduct over one-half of this area for portia district whuro coal will never bo of the seams being washed Qui scams fron) any other cuuse, wt least 0,000 equaro miles of a fc ofonul, In every acre of land foot yeam there are tons to the square wile, or a tutal of 2, tong (nearly twouty-nine thousand tons), an amount suilivient to supply ten mijtlon tons per annum for about three reaummed that by the tine this au) pdimintah from exhaustion of t filnes, a xrcut many of the present auuerd, uy well as Dpliticlans, | and otbers will nog require nuy ee referred to by’ the Norfolk r) casa of a vendabie lady, o an unslgutly tow: ther, has not less than ican—and is Increasing nN, suventy-fly; ‘iese are follows other ranges - until found, because reuched; and i i I by washouts, adi moved all doubts as to the becoming one of note. ‘The ef ranged fora picnic, ‘They assembled In a beau- Gor Hee arounds, shout half a own. ‘Phere were wall dressed, and f ‘The dinner was 3 complota'in every particular, ‘T were young and full wo shall buve, nd cone Inthe faurefoot seany ey joritas; Tancock, Clicinnutus, Wi Very sour tizens ‘had ur- thorn), ‘i No atood ut inst, all sated Of her guroaying arms ani A thing tor Koes to “sweet Vjoloty u J oomy tp thee!” ho cricd, flo comes to Ong g blithd young Nuttorey we H toot witbreiidee igh Tut toes Winn padea tinea les on Bo jets hing press a P a gives a plerclug ¢ry— of Jife, cultivated aud aut, aud Look special interest in make Wuite at homer Te was truly aston uite WOME, 8 tru eget by every one presen. 'y 8 della! the Spantards over THE FORMATION oy ‘TUK MOGOLLON MOUNT+ a AIMS shits uf trachyte, por indicates yreatave.” th cecgazurus oF Blac ous feet higher, formation is ledge and rate ares, with brad b an how | lneipal: vi uave-out throug ff rust relative of Ca guttten atthe supper-tablewith what seeme @ partial parajysls which resluted the usu: yemedies professionally — preseribed. Oll was upoptled, Insuring iminediata and jts continued use for, thres days u house as woll as ere that she awes her life Buter the Bea: be “False ono, adios. Teannot wed with you You arg wptrue, untrue!” ‘Tho insect> world look: “Algy, poor Heat Bho's driven bim usttaye Pha i Nader . ine ‘Thus Pune. tRe world away: Fula Waser > tchison—the terminus of the & ¥6 Road—claiuis This place was until re- mous for robberies and. xs COWbuys, Who seemed reeort. [twas avoided by tra Nrarcny and quartzite, range Ls much Ke itange, and on fn sad dlemay- w its great curat!