Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report Upon Explorations and Surveys in the Department of the Missouri, 1878
The next range to the west appearing to the traveler in the lower San Juan is the La Plata Group, a number of peaks at the lower end of the huge divide between the waters of the Animas and those to the west. They trend gently to the west and east, and end abruptly to the south, where the La Plata River emerges from the mountains, between which, for a dozen miles or more, it has coursed it way southwest and south.
At this point of departure from the mountains, beautifully situated on a wide plateau, is Parrott City, the attractions being the lodes of silver, whence the river and mount ains derive their name, and the placer deposits claimed to exist along the stream.
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