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Crossing Black Cypress Bayou, to the south side of the Gideon Storey 

 headright, the ore deposits appear in the bluffs to attain a maximum thick- 

 ness of ten feet. It has the same thickness of ten feet on the east side of the 

 George Davidson headright. Old pits dug at various places east of the 

 Davidson headright, on the Gideon Storey and headright lying south, do not 

 not show this thickness, however. In these pits the ore, so far as could be 

 seen, is not more than five feet. 



In the southern part of the county, on the Ambrosi Douthet, Santiago Tos- 

 cano, John Kettrel, and William Crain surveys, pits dug by prospectors show 

 the iron deposits of this region to have at least a thickness of four to five feet. 



On the northwest corner of the Lavinia Mornen survey a well thirty feet 

 deep passed through ore four feet and then alternate beds of sand and ore to 

 twenty feet. 



In the same region, at Mr. Renaud's, on section No. 20, Cass County school 

 lands, two wells having depths of fifty-five and sixty-five feet respectively, 

 after passing through the surface ore deposit of four feet, gave thin streaks 

 and nodules of ore mixed with sand to a depth of fifty feet. 



The thickness of the ore in this region may be taken as four feet. In some 

 places it may be somewhat more. The thin seams of ores found in the wells 

 are generally separated from each other by deposits of sand varying from 

 four to six feet. 



Near Atlanta, on the west side of the Jane Richee headright, an iron mine 

 recently opened by the Lone Star Furnace Company, of Jefferson, has been 

 dug four feet deep. This, however, does not reach the bottom of the deposit. 

 Trial pits dug further down the hill show outcroppings of a laminated ore. 

 The whole thickness here, including laminated and nodular ore, may be taken 

 as having attained the maximum thickness of ten feet. On the west side of 

 the J. B. Mix headright the ore deposits show a thickness of from three to 

 four feet. On the Horatio Cunningham survey the same thickness is ob- 

 served. 



To the east of the Texas and Pacific Railway, and about two miles north 

 by east of Queen City, on the south side of the Albert Emmanuel land, as 

 well as the west side of the D. W. Gilbert survey, the conglomerate ores are 

 found to be about five feet thick, with a probability of being more. This ore 

 is broken into large rudely quadrangular blocks, many of them showing a 

 thickness of over four feet. These blocks rest upon others, but to what ex- 

 tent or thickness it is impossible to say. No excavations have ever been 

 made. About a mile southwest of this deposit, on the M. L. Ware headright, 

 a well was dug showing five or six feet of a broken ferruginous sandstone 

 and nodular ore. Several miles further east blocks measuring from eighteen 

 inches to two feet have been found, but not extensively. On the east side of 



