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cultivation with varied crops, including considerable corn and cotton, 
and there are many cattle, sheep, and goats. Poultry raising and 
are important industries. 
D’Hanis (named after an old French settler but settled by south 
Germans) is on the alluvial plain, but hills of the older formations rise 
to the south and north. To the west and south 
D’Hanis. are high banks of clay of the Escondido formation, 
Population 2 ong which is worked for brick and tile. Two principal 
New Orleans 630 miles, terrace levels will be noted in this region, a lower one 
of alluvium and an upper one capped by sand and 
gravel (late Tertiary?). Old D’Hanis, a mile east of the station, 
south of the tracks, was on the early stage route from San Antonio to 
El Paso. Near by is a large gravel pit showing the thickness of the 
alluvial filling. To the south is a high hill with a cross on top, which 
was placed there originally as a landmark and is at present a shrine 
for the Mexican people of the region. 
A mile west of D’Hanis the railroad crosses Seco Creek (say’co) 
which drains a part of the Edwards Plateau. On its banks 2 miles 
to the north are the ruins of Fort Lincoln, 1849-1852, once garrisoned 
with 141 men to keep the Comanche Indians and outlaws in check. 
Beyond Seco Creek there is a long ascent on a slope of clay (Escon- 
dido) to the summit of the wide, high plateau which separates the 
valleys of Seco Creek and the Sabinal River (sah-bee-nahl’). This 
plateau, nearly 200 feet high, is heavily capped by sand with coarse 
gravel and boulders, in large part cemented by caliche. There are 
many small exposures of this capping, notably one in a gravel pit 
ath of the tracks just east of Seco siding. It extends north to the 
foot of the rise to the Edwards Plateau, about 5 miles north, and to 
the west it slopes down somewhat and terminates at the edge of a 
steep down slope 111; miles west of D’Hanis. 
by @ fault that crosses the region 
northeast to southwest a short 
Austin chalk, Eagle Ford limestone, and 
Del Rio clay crop out. The Del 1 Rio in 
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(See table on p. 75.) 
Another outcrop of Midway limestone, 
similarly down-faulted, i 
limestone and overlying shale, as shown 
in Plate 11, A, and farther up the ereek 
es and _ Ford beds is 
shown in Plate 9, B 
co Creek, nied 3 miles north of 
pia has moderately high banks of 
Anacacho limestone, and a short dis- 
tance farther north the Austin chalk is 
well The beds are consider- 
ably fentind Farther north are foot- 
hills of Austin chalk, a zone of Buda 
and Del Rio outcrop, and long slopes of 
Georgetown limestone. 
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