DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES. 73 



1. Surface soil 1 foot 



2. Bright red stiff clayey sand 15 feet. 



3. Yellow sand streaked with white near bottom of bed 30 feet 



4. White sand 6 feet 



5. Black clay 3 feet 



6. White sandy clay, changing into a white and rusty white and orange sand. . 10 feet 



7. Gray sandstone ... 2 inches. 



8. Black micaceous sandy clay 6 feet 



A well on the same headright half a mile south gives 



1. Surface soil 1 foot. 



2. Yellow sand 16 feet 



3. Black clay containing nodules of iron pyrites 25 feet 



4. Yellowsand 4 feet 



Between these two sections there appears a deposit of the stratified red and 



white sand in a position where it appears to take the place of No. 6 of the 

 first of these two sections, and probably a portion of No. 8. A bed of clay 

 ironstone appears on the top of the stratified sands. 



Another section in a stream about half a mile east of this gives the follow- 

 ing: 



1. Surface soil, a drab or yellowish gray sand 1 foot 



2. Dark bluish sand .■ 4 feet 



3. Yellowish brown sand 12 feet. 



4. Fine grained quartzite, having the appearance of a bed of nodules cemented to- 



gether 4 inches. 



5. Black laminated micaceous clay, in every respect similar to No. 8 of above sec- 



tion 6 feet. 



Passing to the western side of the county, we find the section at Hughes' 

 Springs to be a succession of brown unstratified sands, stratified red and 

 white sands, and black clays. 



Section at cut on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, three miles west of 

 Hughes' Springs. Elevation, 409 feet. 



1. Red ferruginous sandy soil, with thinly bedded iron ore and ferruginous 



sandstones 10 . feet 



2. Stratified brown and white sands, with a broken bed or pavement of nodu- 



ular ore near centre of bed; ore, 1 foot thick 4 to 6 feet. 



3. Black laminated sandy clay, containing rounded bowlders of ore and sand- 



stone and showing efflorescence of pale yellow 8 feet. 



A well on the Joseph Burleson headright, about a mile and a half east of 

 Hughes' Springs, gives the following: 



1. Conglomerate and nodular iron ore with red sand 12 feet. 



2. Black earth, a thinly laminated sand and sandy clay with small patches 



of white sand and nodules of yellow ochreous matter in lower division. 15 feet. 



3. Greensand H to 2 feet 



4. White sand to water 6 feet 



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