9Gfi REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Exteusive flint quarry near the town of Mill Creek. This ((uarry is of the white 

 chert peculiar to Illinois, and furnished the huge oval chipped iuiplements supposed 

 to have been used as digging tools or for agricultural purposes. The (|uarry was 

 discovered in May, 1899, by Dr. AV. A. Thillips and Edward E. Wyman, and opened 

 by Drs. I'hillips and Dorsey, of the Eieltl Columbian Museum. ' 



TENNESSEE. 



Cooke County. — Worksho]) on the ridge. Quantities of Hint (iliips, etc., scattered 

 over the ground. Reported by .J. W. Emmert. 



KENTUCKY. 



Ohio County. — A lliut implement factory ou Wade N. Martin's farm, (Jromwell post- 

 ottice. Reported by Mr. .J. M. Ikown. 



Wyandotte County. — There are a number of mounds near Wyaudotte, Ktmtucky, of 

 which a map is iu preparatiou. A workshop 1 acre in exteut aud covered with chips 

 and shreds is reported. 



"About two years ago I discovered on the farm of .1. L. Stockton, 1 mile northwest 

 of this city, remains of an aboriginal workshop or village. It is located on a small 

 stream called Jersey Creek, and near a large spring. It covers an area of about 

 2 acres. The soil is saudy, and to the depth of 2 feet is a complete mixture of flakes 

 of flint, ashes, bones — both animal aud human — fragments of ornamented pottery, 

 broken and unfinished stone implements of nearly every description. * * * There 

 are no deposits of flint or other stone valuable for arrow making, etc., in this vicinity. 

 The axes, celts, skin dressers, and balls are all made of porphyry, and the arrow- 

 heads of flint." - 



TEXAS. 



Goliad County. — Flint workshop on the margin of Lone Tree Lake, 2 miles west 

 of San Antonio River, and 7 miles south of the town of Goliad. The lake margin 

 was of sand, covering, to a depth of 4 or .5 feet, the flint workers' site. This was 

 about 150 yards long by 50 wide, the debris, chips, flakes, arrowpoints, spearheads, 

 and tools, being on and in the clay under the sand, aud estimated at 10 bushels iu 

 sight.^ 



ARKANSAS. 



Garland County. — Quarries of novaculite were tbund in Garland County, Arkansas.'* 

 Dr. Holmes reports everywhere the aborigines found and worked these transported 

 masses (from the quarry), and hundreds of square miles are strewn with flakes, 

 fi'agments, failures, and rejected pieces, and the country around, from the mountains 

 to the (iulf, is dotted with the finished forms that have been used and lost. 



Hot Sprinf/s County. — Ancient novaculite mines near Magnet Cove.'' 



Novaculite is one of the varieties of fliut and, where obtainable by 

 prehistoric man, Avas much used for the larger aud ruder kinds of 

 implements. 



The subject of novaculite quarries is treated by Mr. L. S. Griswold, 

 under the title of '-Whetstones and Novaculites of America."" 



The Quarterly Geological Journal " contains the report of an iuvesti- 



I George A. Dorsey, Report of Eield Columbian Museueui, June, 1899. 



2E. F. Serviss, Smithsonian Reports, LS79, p. 433; 1881, p. 528. 



•■"J. D. Mitchell, Victoria, Texas, letter of June 24, 1894. 



^W. H. Holmes, American Anthropologist, October, 1.S91, p. 313. 



•''W. P. Jeuney, American Anthropologist, October, 1891, p. 316. 



« Annual Report of the (icological Survey of Arkansas, 1890. 



■> London, Vol. L, Pt. 3, No. 199. 



