Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . has been but super-ficial, and prospecting by shaft has demonstrated the existenceof several streaks of black sand constellated with gold nuggets oflarger size than those found near the surface of the hills on both sides of the creek are formed of primitiverocks, gneiss, a granite cut by a number of quartzite veins, alsosome fine blossoms and garnets disseminated through the rocks,as well as in the sand of the creek. Along Indian Creek valley,between the Grayback and LaVeta, the sandstone
Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . has been but super-ficial, and prospecting by shaft has demonstrated the existenceof several streaks of black sand constellated with gold nuggets oflarger size than those found near the surface of the hills on both sides of the creek are formed of primitiverocks, gneiss, a granite cut by a number of quartzite veins, alsosome fine blossoms and garnets disseminated through the rocks,as well as in the sand of the creek. Along Indian Creek valley,between the Grayback and LaVeta, the sandstone beds are sothoroughly impregnated by copper that several mines have beenopened in this locality. THE SPANISH PEAKS, seen in the southern horizon, are located nine miles southeast ofthe thriving town of LaVeta, and promise to become one of themost important mining .camps south of the Divide. The main body of these peaks is a porphyritic trachyteemerging from the upper carboniferous formation, and cut bydykes radiating from the center of eruption towards the plains. ..n^-vr^siiffliiincr!!!. Mines and Metals. 41 and accompanied by a contact matter carrying galena, sulpluir-ets and the precious metals. As it can be seen by this too short description of the naturalbasin in the middle of which the Pueblos are located, we have atour doors mines of Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron and Copper ; bedsof Coal, limestones, sandstones, clays, gypsum, springs of Min-eral waters. Artesian wells. Petroleum, without saying anythingof the surfac:e formation of our plain, which is but a vast are those who do not see that with all these advantagesPueblo is, what it claims to be, a mining center. THE PUEBLOS THE GREAT COLORADO MARKET FOR ORES. Obeying the laws of gravitation and attraction, the drops ofrain gather together to form rivulets and brooks, and runninginto natural channels down the steep inclines of our mountains,unite, forming creeks and rivers that empty into the sea andocean. So a
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