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3. Stratified white and red sand with white sandy 



clay (Queen City beds) 65 feet. 



4. Brown sand and clay 25 " 



5. Lignite 1J " 



These beds have never been outlined but are known to occur 



at various localities in Cass county. In Marion county, near 

 Jefferson, and in Harrison county these beds appear at various places 

 immediately underlying the yellowish brown sandstone here forming 

 the base of the Marine beds. The same beds are also found at 

 Willow Switch near Longview and Gladewater in Gregg Co.,, and 

 also occur near Tyler in Smith county and at Wilkins' Mill in Up- 

 shur Co. 



These beds are uufossiliferous throughout. Not the slightest 

 trace of a fossil of any kind has ever been found in them and they 

 do not carry lignite. They are, however, readily recognized, and 

 whenever present, are conspicuous from their clear, distinct, banded 

 appearance lying between the brown and brownish-yellow beds 

 above and below them. They have been correlated with the Carrizo 

 sandstones of the Tertiary west of the Brazos. (i ~ 



The lower lignitic deposits are very different from the Queen City 

 beds in many respects. These contain the dark blue, gray, black, 

 brown and yellow clays and sands, sandstones and lignites so 

 characteristic of the lignite group everywhere, and form by far the 

 most extensive deposits belonging to this stage of the Eocene. 



In Bowie county, in the extreme northeastern portion of the state, 

 lignitic clays and lignites occur ; in Cass county the same deposits 

 show the typical structure at many places. A section at the Alamo 

 mine, on Sulphur Fork, shows : 



1. Sand and clay 26 feet. 



2. Gray clay . 23 " 



3. Lignite 1 ft. 8 inches. 



4. Gray sand 2 feet. 



5. Hard slaty clay 9 " 



6. Lignite 4 feet -f 



lu Marion county the enormous thickness of these beds is seen in 



the artesian boring made for water at Jefferson. Here the drill 

 passed through alternate strata of sands, clays and lignites to a depth 



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