Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-10-13

getting a share of the enormous wealth; and the town took on the hec- tic like of the most active mining camp. Gradually the output of sil- yer declined, and when the World War began, 4n 1914, all of the mines turn ed to the production of zinc, which gave the camp new life and helped materially to supply our urgent nced in the war. Leadville now seems to be in. decline, but one can not see it without feeling touch of the TO- nance and glamour of the old camp that still clings to it.
 The change that the wizard water has made on the parched lands of the West is well illustrated in the trip across Colorado and Utah. When, af- ter riding mile after mile across the dry and dusty desert, the traveller suddenly comes into an irrifated val ley, where bountiful crops are grown and trees hang loaded with luscious fruit, he begins to realize the wonder of the work that the Government is carrying on under the Reclamation Service in converting the wilderness into a land of abounding blossoms. The work of the Forest Service in conserving the forests of the West and in reforesting land that has been denuded by fire is graphically set forth by a member of that service, who also tells briefly of the policy of the Government in dealing with the grazing problem and with the dis posal of merchantable timber from the national forests.
 Some of the most interesting pages of the guidebook are those winch gives to the reader a graphic account of the great railroad war that was waged between the Denver & Rio Grande and the Santa Fe in 1S78-1SS0 for the possession of the Royal Gorge. This was a real war, resulting in the loss of many lives and the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of prop erty. The first overt act of this war was committed by the Santa Fe in taking, possession of Raton Pass, through which the Denver & Rio Grande had surveyed its main line and had expected to build its road to the city of Mexico. Later an armed force under the direction of officials of the Santa Fe road took possession of the Royal Gorge and barricaded it's lower portal to prevent the en. trance of the forces Of the Denver & Rio Grande road. The barricade was storned and many lives were sacri. feed, but the Santa Fe could not be displaced. The case was carried tc i the> courts, and a Federal court ir 1 Denver decide that the Santa Fe hat prior right to the Royal Gorge. The Denver & Rio Grande appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States and finally that body reversed the previous decision and or. dere that the right of way through the Royal Gorge be turned over to the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. The result of the war was that the Den yer & Rio Grande was prevented from extending its line to the south, as originally contemplated when the road was named and was forced to become an east-west line, which now has de- veloped into one of the great tourist carrying railroads of the country.
 The guidebook just completed, which is listed as Bulletin TOY, describes a number of one-day interesting trips that may be made to localities from Denver, Colorado Springs, Canon City, and Salt Lake City, and it de- scribes the scenery along the Gunni- son route through the Black Canyon as we'll as that along the main line over Tennessee Pass. The book con tains a fund of interesting and use full information and is elaborately il- lustrated with shaded relief mapr, half-tone plates, and diagrams. It may be obtained for one dollar from