El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-17

up and down driving took US across the
nor hern end of Jornada del Muerto
! (the Journey of Death) through the
rough land between the Chap idera
| Mesa and the OScura mountains ald
through the northern end of the Nal
Pals to White Oaks The Nal Pals is
| deposit of lava of recent origin 1850
some authorities say that covers the
plain from five to fly feet deep for a
| length of over fifty miles with a width
| of from five to fifteen miles The erup-
| tion that produced it is supposed to
have wrought the geological changes
that made the Gran QIivera ruined
city in a waterless waste.
AT White Oaks our real work began
and during the succeeding days we
inspected timber tracts, crawled into
mines, burrowed like prairie dogs in
prospect holes, looked wisely at out
crop and paystreak ore from here,
there and everywhere and so worked
zigzag, together ard in sections, across
the entire region to Ell Paso. Our
route included the NOgal district, the
Bonito, Fort S anton, the Captains.
Eagle Creek, the Rio RuidOso, the
through the MescalerO Indian reserva-
tion and most hearty welcome from
Lieut. +. V. Stottler, who has, without
a soldier or a guu completely metamor-
phOsed his Apache charge. From
his point portion of the party went
to the famous potato and timber re-
gions of the Sacramento Mountains
ard thence to La Luz, while the others
went down Tularosa canon TO the love-
ly orchard town of that name. Then
there We're other days by the marvel
Gus deposits of pure gypsum-almost as
large as a Pennsy lvania county and
dry camps" and hill climbing and
mine seeing, and cattle herjerS and a
flying column too strong) to the lower
foothills of the Sacrau 7tCs and Jica-
rilla noun tains. And so with welcome
everyone ere, with every question freely
answered, with Information vo.un-
cred, we skirted the San And res, the
B ac'1 and Organ mountains until Fort
Bliss and the Old Flag, under the
shadow of the Franklin peaks told US
Ell PaSo was at hand.
Having thus touched upon our course
| will briefly surmise the results of our
investigation under separate heads.
THE COAL.
At White Oaks we examined with
great care the Parker and Schinziug
veins, situated in the mountains about
three miles from the town. La each of
them we found vein of coal aggregat-
ing something over three feet in thi k
ness, exclusive of the streaks of fire
clay aud shale. They are of fair
grade of bituminOu5 with good sand
stone roof and dip westwardly into the
mountain "a about "a 20 degree pitch.
While there is undoubtedly consider
able amount of coal to be mad from the
mines and possibly from Oiher deposits
whereabouts, The eastern coal men were
by no means enthusiastic over them. To
the unframed eye 1t seemed that faults
and broken veins mus be encountered
in such "a rough country, with the
mountains generally inclined to assume
the peak shape.
fancied that the coal contingent of
of the party approached the Salado
coal region twenty-five miles TO the
south, with no great exp =ctatio Is after
this experience l have been with in
vest eating parties on a great many
important trips but never saw more
complete surprise than awaited them
there. Before we bal even seen