A photograph postcard showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 361, 2-8-0, on an excursion train stopped at the end of the wye track, Cimarron, CO.

A photograph postcard showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 361, 2-8-0, motive power for Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion special. 175 of the 248 passengers posing in front of the train, Cimarron, CO.

A photograph postcard showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 361, 2-8-0, on an escursion train, turning the front part of the train, at Cimarron, CO.

A photograph postcard showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 361, 2-8-0, on an escursion train, returning around the wye for the rear portion of the train, Cimarron, CO. (Jack Riley at left)

A photograph postcard showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 361, 2-8-0, turning the rear part of train, Cimarron, CO.

A photograph print showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 344, 2-8-0 (BLW, class C-19), at engine house in Montrose, CO.

A photograph postcard (& negative) showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW), Silver Vista Excursion, locomotive 361, 2-8-0, climbing up along Cimarron Creek toward Cimarron, CO, too much water in the boiler.

A photograph print (& negative) showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW), 361, 2-8-0, narrow gauge, doubling the Silver Vista Excursion train, up the hill to the upper end of the wye so it could be turned, Cimarron, CO.

A photograph print (& negative) showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW), 361, 2-8-0, narrow gauge, on the Silver Vista Excursion train, Cimarron, CO.

A photograph print (& negative) showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW), 361, 2-8-0, narrow gauge, on the Silver Vista Excursion train, Cimarron, CO.

A report regarding Preliminary reserve statement 3, reserve block 5 (east part), Club Mesa, Montrose County, Colorado

A report regarding Preliminary reserve statement 1, reserve block 1, Club Mesa, Montrose County, Colorado

Preliminary reserve statement on the drilling of ore deposits in Club Mesa, Colorado.

Preliminary reserve statement on the drilling of ore deposits in Club Mesa, Colorado.

A study made of the joint patterns in four different formations exposed in Bull Canyon, and of favorable and unfavorable ground in the upper ore-bearing sandstone unit of the Salt Was member of the Jurassic Morrison formation.

Report discussing the San Miguel bench and the production of carnotite from deposits consisting of sandstone with uranium- and vanadium-bearing minerals.

A report vanadium-uranium ore in the J. J. mine in Montrose County, Colorado.

Abstract: Results of detailed mapping of the Salt Wash sandstone member of the Morrison formation in the Uravan and Gateway districts, Montrose and Mesa Counties, Colo., suggest that large areas containing both lenticular bedding in the ore-bearing sandstone and persistently altered mudstone beneath the sandstone are generally favorable for carnotite deposits.

Abstract: San Miguel bench includes about 4 square miles in the southern part of T. 48 N., R. 17 W., New Mexico principal meridian, Montrose County, Colorado. Production of carnotite ore from the area has been about 15, 000 short tons having an estimated average graderof 0. 31 percent U3O8,and 1. 6 percent V2 05 Nearly all of the carnotite deposits occur in a single-continuous sandstone bed near the top of the Salt Wash member of the Jurassic Morrison formation. These deposits consist chiefly of sandstone impregnated with uranium- and vanadium-bearing minerals. They are irregular tabular-shaped masses ranging in size from a few short tons to 30, 000 short tons or more of minable carnotite ore. During the period November 27, 1951, to April 17, 1953, the U. S. Geological Survey drilled 309 holes totaling 92, 194 feet on the San Miguel bench. Reserves total about 43, 000 short tons of material 1 foot or more thick and contain 0,.10 percent or more U30 or 1. 0 percent or more V205. Of these reserves 3, 300 short tons occur in private land. These reserves are in ten deposits found by Geological Survey drilling. Potential reserves (reserves based on geologic evidence …

Introduction: Detailed geologic mine mapping and sampling of the J.J. mine in the Jo dandy area, Montrose County, Colo., were undertaken to study a vanadium-uranium ore body in terms of the physical relationships of ore to host rock, the paragenetic sequence of ore minerals, and the sequential development of an oxidized suite of ore minerals from unoxidized ore.