Show --76- and other Colorado towns are also outlets for their farm products To reach the Hew Mexico markets particularly The better route Albuquerque there are two motor routes is down the river from Fruitland to Shiprock then south to Gallup thence to Albuquerque The second is much shorter but not easily traveled even in the best of weather This way i3 east through Farmington south to Bloomfield then southeast to Cuba and Bernalillo where Santa Fe and There Albuquerque both may be reached over a paved highway is a narrow gauge railway from Farmington north through Colorado but trucks are the better means of reaching the markets Another source of income to the Mormons here were the small coal mines onerated for the local markets and consumption These mines are located along the table lands of the valley where an outcropping of coal was mined home at very little several of the Mormon families to financial independence but since gas wells have been drilled in the San Juan area the mines are expense Goal mining helped longer extensively worked The San Juan gas fields furnish gas to Farmington which had formerly been the consumer of the Mormons' coal Most Mormons were not financially no gas equipment in their homes resulting in the continued use of coal by them The economic possibilities able to install |