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  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Louisiana 
  [Sect. 
  

  

  1. 
  Miller's 
  bluff, 
  Bossier 
  parish.* 
  

  

  2. 
  Gilmer 
  field, 
  Phelp's 
  lake, 
  Bossier 
  parish.* 
  

  

  3. 
  H. 
  ly. 
  Aubery, 
  Claiborne 
  parish.* 
  

  

  4. 
  Location 
  not 
  given. 
  f 
  

  

  5. 
  Location 
  not 
  given. 
  f 
  

  

  6. 
  Location 
  not 
  given. 
  f 
  

  

  7. 
  Farmerville, 
  Union 
  parish.;}: 
  

  

  8. 
  Four 
  miles 
  northeast 
  of 
  Calhoun, 
  Sec. 
  30, 
  i8N.,2E.| 
  

  

  9. 
  Two 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  Calhoun, 
  Sec. 
  29, 
  18 
  N., 
  i 
  E.t 
  

  

  Col. 
  Samuel 
  H. 
  Lockett,§ 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  University, 
  in 
  his 
  report 
  

   of 
  the 
  topographical 
  survey 
  for 
  1870, 
  makes 
  the 
  following 
  state- 
  

   ment, 
  which 
  seems 
  to 
  full}' 
  cover 
  the 
  case: 
  "Many 
  persons 
  

   think 
  that 
  this 
  parish 
  (Bossier) 
  will 
  one 
  day 
  acquire 
  great 
  profit 
  

   from 
  the 
  iron 
  rocks 
  found 
  in 
  such 
  abundance 
  on 
  the 
  hills 
  of 
  the 
  

   red 
  lands. 
  This 
  is 
  hardly 
  possible 
  until 
  the 
  so 
  much 
  richer 
  and 
  

   more 
  easily 
  wrought 
  and 
  more 
  accessible 
  ores 
  of 
  iron 
  found 
  in 
  

   every 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  are 
  exhausted. 
  It 
  is 
  true 
  that 
  

   Bossier 
  and 
  Claiborne 
  and 
  Jackson 
  parishes 
  might 
  supply 
  them- 
  

   selves 
  with 
  iron 
  from 
  their 
  own 
  hillsides, 
  but, 
  until 
  they 
  become 
  

   completely 
  isolated 
  from 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  they 
  will 
  do 
  well 
  

   to 
  seek 
  their 
  supply 
  elsewhere. 
  These 
  iron 
  rocks, 
  though 
  look- 
  

   ing 
  extremely 
  rich 
  in 
  iron, 
  are 
  yet 
  so 
  largely 
  composed 
  of 
  sand 
  

   as 
  to 
  be 
  appropriately 
  ua.med 
  ferruginous 
  sand 
  rocks.'' 
  

  

  Lignite 
  

  

  The 
  lignite 
  beds 
  of 
  Louisiana 
  have 
  been 
  known 
  and 
  looked 
  

   upon 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  resources 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  from 
  its 
  first 
  settle- 
  

   ment. 
  Stoddard, 
  in 
  18 
  12, 
  in 
  his 
  Sketches 
  of 
  Louisiana, 
  p. 
  392, 
  

   says 
  of 
  the 
  Louisiana 
  lignite 
  : 
  " 
  Stone 
  or 
  pit-coal 
  is 
  an 
  article 
  of 
  

   some 
  importance. 
  It 
  frequently 
  makes 
  its 
  appearance 
  on 
  the 
  

   "Washita, 
  the 
  Sabine, 
  and 
  the 
  Red 
  rivers, 
  particularly 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  Johnson, 
  Iron 
  Region 
  of 
  Louisiana 
  and 
  Texas, 
  50th 
  Cong, 
  ist 
  Ses. 
  

   House 
  Ex. 
  Doc, 
  vol. 
  26, 
  p. 
  195. 
  

  

  fMin. 
  Resources 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  for 
  1887, 
  p. 
  51. 
  Analyses 
  by 
  Alfred 
  F 
  

   Brainerd. 
  

  

  JLerch, 
  Bull. 
  La. 
  Expt. 
  Sta. 
  : 
  Geology 
  and 
  Agriculture, 
  part 
  I., 
  p. 
  48 
  

   Analyses 
  by 
  Maurice 
  F. 
  Bird. 
  

  

  § 
  2d 
  Ann. 
  Rept. 
  of 
  the 
  Topog. 
  Surv. 
  of 
  Louisiana 
  for 
  1870, 
  p. 
  49, 
  1871. 
  

  

  