28 GEOLOGICAL REPORT. 



Little Tavern creeks, in Maries county ; the hills and valleys 

 near Clifty Dale, and the white-oak lands of Maries county." 



MINERALS. 



The mineral wealth of the region under consideration is very 

 great, and cannot fail, when fully developed, to command the 

 admiration of the world, and greatly increase the material 

 wealth of our State. 



BUILDING MATERIALS 



are very abundant in all parts. There is an ample supply of 

 limestones and sandstones and marbles, suitable for all the 

 purposes to which such materials are usually applied. Clays 

 and sands of excellent quality for limes and cements exist in 

 large quantities in nearly all parts of this country. Gravel 

 and pebbles of good quality for roads and streets occur in great 

 Abundance. 



IRON ORE 



of most excellent quality exists in great quantities. The Red 

 and Brown Hematites are the most common ; they occur in 

 nearly all the counties, and are found in the Ferruginous 

 Sandstone and the Magnesian Limestones. One of the most 

 valuable localities of iron was observed in the south-western 

 part of Green county. Large masses of fibrous brown hema- 

 tite cover several acres in the S.E. qr. of the S.E. qr. of Sec. 

 24, T. 27, R. 24. The bed is more than eight feet thick in a 

 shaft sunk into it. In the S.W. qr., Sec. 19, T. 27, R. 23, we 

 saw another large bed of the same ore. The same excellent 

 ore covers many acres in the N.W. qr. of the same section. It 

 also abounds in Sec. 7 of the same township, and in Sees. 14 

 and 15, T. 27, R. 24. There are also large beds of this ore to 

 the N. and N.E. of these localities. Some important beds of 

 the common brown hematite occur at Pond Springs, and sev- 

 eral other localities in Green county. In Sec. 2, T. 25, R. 25, 

 in Stone county, large quantities of the ore were observed. 

 Beds of less importance were also seen in nearly all the coun- 

 ties examined. 



