Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-05
PETRIFIED WOOD.

Much of this petrified wood retains
its natural appearance. The sap cells
are clear and distinct in cross-sections,
and where cut and polished it is ex-
ceedingly beautiful, and it is we'll suited
for inlaid work. Where agatized it Is
equally beautiful. The woods so petri-
fed are varied and all equally distinct
in the change. Oak, cedar, juniper,
poplar, ash, pine, fir, and the various
old conifers of those ancient times
| shows EACH it's individual character suf-
ficiently to enable one to read its age
and history almost as we'll as if it were
a product of this day. The petrifed
forest of Arizona lies on the east side
| of the Little Colorado river, and covers
several hundred acres of land. The trees
that are here petritied are in some in
| stances 3 feet in diameter, out usually
broken in sections, and as they lie on
the ground they look as if they had
been sawed into sections for fuel. In
| some instances they still exist in I'M
broken lengths of from 20 to go feet in
length, and as they exist they are the
most wonderful feature yet discovered
in any country. AS they lie there they
ancient lake wherein they later We're
covered we with hundreds of feet of
blue las, and where they took into their
pores the SILICA that to-day presents
| than DC CO poonv noaSCaC nf Stpna
Still later the erosion of the Little Col
orado wore away the country surface
and exposed them to the eye of modern
man.
OBSIDIAN.
Obsidian of great beauty and great
variety is found in New Mexico, Wyo-
ming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada
and California. 1t is found semi-trans-
lucent and in all shades of color from
almost. clear water color to jet black;
also green, brown, red, yellow and blue.
The prehistoric races fashioned it into
arrows and lance heads, many of which
are now found and worn as ornaments,
and are very beautiful.
Pebbles.
In Esmeralda county, Nevada. and
around Mono lake. in Mono county, Cal
~ifornia, are found great numbers of OBJ
sidian pebbles, many of which are of
great beauty. They polish well and
make exceedingly pretty ornaments
when cut and polished.
NATIVE SILVER NUGGETS.
Native silver nuggets are frequently
found in some of the western mines. At
Austin, New, such were found years
ago; also at the Silver King mine, Globe
district, Arizona, and at the Mollie Glib
son mine, Colorado, and in New Mex
yer found in the Batopilas mine shows
the most beautiful examples of it's kind
ever found in any part of the world. AT
the Keystone mine, Mineral Park, Ari-
iona, years since very beautiful speci-
mems of wire silver were taken out. In
the trap rocks of Salmon river, in Lem
hi county, there are found great mum
bers of what are locally called lemon
geodes. They resemble very much. in
their natural state, wilted lemons, and
when cut they still more resemble that
fruit, almost prompting one to take
them for petrified citron fruit. In time
they will become valuable for setting
in mosaic work.
MANY PRECIOUS STONES.
Onyx, green variscite, chlorutalite,
malachite, azurite, cuprite, chrysocollo,
covillite, ch%alcopyrite, bornite, atacan-
lite, olivenite. tyrolite, chinoclasite, mix
lite, erinite. brochantite, chalcanthite,
a%uricalcite, t~etrahedrite, pyrite, anne
thyst, smoky quartz, tourmaline, beryl,
jade, Jasper, kyanite, agate, jet, ward
lite. fossil ivory, obsidian, trilobite, ma
tive silver nuggets, lemon goodies, anda-
lusite, rubellite, are some of the pre-
cious and ornamental stones found in
the Rocky mountain states, and for