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U1111 d okiLes Department ( )I tjj 3461 <br /> (130)HW <br /> 13UREAU OF LAND MANAGEMrNT <br /> , . <br /> Canon City District Office <br /> 3080 East Main, P.O. Box 311 <br /> Canon City, Colorado 8121-2 <br /> August 2, 1.982 <br /> Mr. Jack Gillespie <br /> District Geologist <br /> CF&I Steel Corporation <br /> Box 316 <br /> Pueblo, Colorado 81002 <br /> Dear Mr. Gillespie: <br /> This is in response to the telephone conversation that we had on July 29th. <br /> The BLM conducted unsuitability inventories in the Raton Coal Basin in <br /> 1980. The area covered by the inventory was confined to the Federal coal <br /> tracts located north of the Purgatorie River. We did not find any areas <br /> that, in our opinion, qualified as alluvial valley floors. Although <br /> alluvial-colluvial deposits occur in the bottoms of some canyons, we did <br /> not find any irrigated land, or land that we felt wzs potentially irrigable, <br /> overlying, the Federal coal. Aside from the mainstem of the Purgatorie <br /> and its three main tributaries (south, north and middle forks) , I doubt <br /> if there are any significant alluvial valley floors in the Raton Coal Basin. <br /> Sincerely yours, <br /> District Hydrologist <br /> I.nlr� <br /> �L-i�__�_1 •_r <br /> MINING r:r-P���T1�1tNT <br />