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While the outlines given above embrace the great ore belt within the 

 county, there are a few small deposits lying beyond them. 



On the east, along the "breaks" cf Beach Creek, on the Samuel Burn- 

 ham headright, a deposit of a dark blue geode or nodular concretionary ore 

 occurs. Toward the southeast of the county, on the James Davenport and 

 John H. Rives headrights, as well as in numerous places along the banks of 

 Frazier's Creek in the same part of the county, there are many outcrops of a 

 siliceous ore much mixed with a ferruginous sandstone. A small hill of the 

 same class of ore is also found in the southeast quarter of the John Watson 

 headright, about three miles east of the Kildare station, on the Texas and 

 Pacific Railway. 



In the northern and western portions of the county ore also occurs in iso- 

 lated patches. The chief of these deposits are those of Lambert's Ridge, on 

 the Wm. Lambert headright, the deposit on the Cusseta Mountains near 

 Cusseta Postoffice, and those on the Cynthia Latimer and John Styles head- 

 rights.* 



Throughout other portions of the county which have been designated as 

 non-producing ore regions small scattered outcroppings of iron ore are occa- 

 sionally met with. These outcroppings are occasionally seen in the banks of 

 the streams flowing through the region, but more frequently in the form of 

 isolated bowlders and nodules upon the sides of the sand hills, or as a thin 

 covering of gravel and ore pebbles covering the tops of the higher hills. 

 . Whatever ores may be found within the boundaries of Cass County of suf- 

 ficient economic importance or value to work will be obtained within the 

 limits of the area above defined. 



TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ORE REGION. 



The topography of the principal ore bearing district of Cass County may 

 be described shortly as a series of long ridges, having an elevation of from 

 fifty to eighty feet above the lower or second bottom lands of the eastern por- 

 tion of the county, and having a general elevation of from five hundred to 

 five hundred and eighty feet above the level of the mean tide in the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



These ridges have in the main their long axes extending in a northeast and 

 southwest direction. This, however, is not exclusively the case, as many of 

 the larger ones have lateral branches or spurs extending at right angles, or 

 nearly so, from the main body; that is, in a northwest and southeast direction. 



These ridges are generally, indeed, in nearly every instance, divided from 

 each other by steep-sided, narrow, deep ravines, the bottoms of which are 



* The ore in these ridges was examined by Mr, A. G-. Taff . 

 12— geol, 



