Colorado: And Homes in the New West

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Upon one of the ridges near the Garden of the Gods, Professor Kerr found Saurian remains within three miles of h;;j class-room. It is not difficult to find petrified stumps or logs in position near the town. The agate fields and the jasper are within easy walk. A sapphire of great value was found upon the bottom lands near my house.
Within a day's ride there are petrified stumps sixteen feet in diameter; they were twenty-five feet high before the stone- choppers attacked them. Near by there is
...an extensive bed of 1 'I"he mesa west of Colorado Springs is composed of this drift.
2 Hayden's Seventh Annual Report, p. 200.
3 Wheeler's Survey, Vol. iii.. Geology, p. 428.
THE NEW WEST. 7 5 fossil insects, centipedes, bees, butterflies, and a vast variety of flying and creeping things in stone. The microscope shows the feathery scales of the butterfly still unruffled, forty thousand to the square inch. The Tertiary strata of the Rocky Mountain plateau are richer in fossil insects than any other region in the world.


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