As Seen by the Scribe of the "Daily News"

On Friday of last week, Erwin O. Blair, of the News, visited Aguilar, the most northern coal camp in Las Animas County. After an hour's pleasant ride on the Gulf train, we reached Apishapa. From here you have to stage it for five miles to the camp, which is located in the canon along the Apishapa Creek. The season has been dry, but along this creek are several groves of trees growing, making us think of our old home back in Illinois. On our way, we passed the ranches of Claudius Hart and W. H. Schulze, which reminded us that there are a few green spots in Colorado.

Aguilar's location is the prettiest and best of any coal camp in the county. We got out at the post office where James Stinston, the popular postmaster, waits on the public.

W. S. Bayles, the attorney and deputy town recorder, met us and took us in charge for the balance of the day. We visited the Brodhead Mine, a new one just being opened one mile above the Peerless Mine. H. C. & R. S. Brodhead, of Pennsylvania, have bought a large tract of coal land north and west of the United Coal Company's property, and instead of drifting into the mountain side, they are digging a shaft to the depth of 265 feet, which depth they expect to reach this week and there find the best and hardest coal that is mined in Southern Colorado.

While in the city we met Miss Patti Stinston and Jack Stinston, Dr. Harbison, H. C. Cossum, Chas. Hay, G. W. Norman, Mike Kelley & Son, Musgrave & Anderson, W. S. Bayles, J. L. Jamison, Mayor of the town, J. I. Lucero, Grant Donnelly, A. G. Brodhead, P. W. Gribble and W. J. Church, all of whom we are under obligations to for courtesies shown us.

The Town of Aguilar, named after ex-County Commissioner Ramon Aguilar, is well laid out, with wide streets, several good stores, a fine brick school house, a nice Catholic church, telephone connection with Trinidad and water running through the principal streets for irrigation. The coal mine has only run a few days each month since January 1st.

The grading outfits of the Gulf road are camped just north of town. Scores of miners have gone into the hills west of Aguilar to cut ties. Norman & Cossum have a contract to get out 20,000 ties and deliver them to the railroad company along the track near Aguilar.