CRETACEOUS FORMATION. 99 



many years in the potteries, which his master, Peter 

 Cribbs and his master's widow, managed from 1865 

 to 1886. The pottery, 3 miles further north on the 

 Military road near M. P. Young's, was the place 

 where most of the jugs, jars, etc.> were made. The 

 best of the clay for these potteries was obtained from 

 what is now Eeuben Powell's land, 2 miles west of 

 the Military road in the northwesit quarter 

 of the norhwest quarter of S. 28, T. 14, B. 16. The 

 pits were dug 14 feet down to the clay, which 

 was 3 feet thick. Mr. Powell has bored with an 8 inch 

 augur near this place, and found clay 1^ feet from the 

 surface, 5 feet thick, dark brown and very tough and 

 plastic. Analysis of this 1 clay is given by Dr. Ries, 

 under No. 11 S. 



Lewis J. Jones, who now lives on the Powell place 

 in the southwest quarter of south west quarter of 

 Section 23, has bored a Avell in his yard of which the 

 section is as follows : 



Section in Well, Lamar Co. 



Surface sands and loams 12 feet 



Clay 1 Ms feet 



Sand 9 feet 



Clay 2 feet 



White sand 24 feet 



Clay, penetrated to depth of 2 feet 



but so tough that the auger could not be raised, 



and the well was stopped. 

 i 



Clay is also reported at Thomas' Mills, above Hun- 

 neTs Bluff on Buttahatchie creek and on Wilson's 

 creek near Friendship Church. 



WestAvard from the Military road, the clay (terri- 

 tory continues to within 10 miles of Aberdeen, where 

 level land and white sandy soil set in. 



Gattman is on the Mississippi State line, and just 

 west of it across Buttahatchie is Greenwood Springs,4 

 miles from Quincy in Monroe county, Mississippi. 



