FOWKE] ABORIGINAL FLINT QUARRIES SIE) 
Cooper place-—A short distance beyond Watson’s is a store be- 
longing to Carver, but usually known as Cooper’s, from a previous 
owner. Across the road from the store, on Hiram Cooper’s land. is 
a gentle slope, facing east, and running out to the north in a narrow 
ridge. Over a space of 50 by 200 yards the ground is strewn or 
covered with worked flint in every stage, from broken nodules to 
flakes and fine chips. There is a strong, never-failing spring on the 
hillside near the center of the flint refuse. No diggings could be 
found, but the slope below the workshop is covered and filled with 
concretions, and abundant material for making desired forms of 
implements could doubtless be secured without making excavations 
of sufficient magnitude to maintain their identity as such through a 
long period of time. 
Carver place—On Jeff Carver’s farm, east of the Stafford school- 
house beyond the store, is a mound of such regular form as to be 
generally considered artificial; but it is entirely a natural feature. 
The ground surrounding it is commonly known as “the flint field ” 
on account of the great quantity of stone on the surface. There 
was such a rank growth of grass that none of the flint could be seen 
when the spot was visited, so it was impossible to learn whether there 
was a workshop here. In a corner of the field, southeast of the 
mound, were small pits, now mostly filled up. Some refuse is to be 
seen around them. 
There are no other workings on this ridge; and reported “ dig- 
gings” at other parts of it result from the attempts of misguided 
visionaries to find a “vein of silver,” or “ where Indians buried all 
their gold,” or other forms of “ hidden treasure.” 
McCormick place-—Crossing Brushy Fork, to the ridge between 
that stream and Smith Creek, John McCormick’s farm is reached, 
not far from the railway station of Deep Cut, 5 miles northwest of 
Carter. At the end of a ridge on this farm were excavations amount- 
ing to an acre or perhaps more; most of the pits are now filled by 
cultivation and natural wash. The ground is covered with broken 
flint, much of it showing that it has been worked. Nodules lie thick 
in the earth, and not much excavating was necessary to procure 
good, unweathered material, consequently they have been gathered 
for some distance below the outcrop. 
Smith place—The next excavations beyond McCormick’s are on 
the farm of John J. Smith, who lives 4 miles west of Carter. Near 
his house there is a narrowing and lowering of the ridge, due to 
ravines which have cut their way back from opposite directions. 
In the depression or “col” thus created the flint horizon is only a 
few feet beneath the surface, and several large deep pits in the de- 
pressed area take up most of the space in which the earth has been 
