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nut color, interstratified with similar laminae of a bright orange or yellow. 

 These laminae rarely exceed a quarter of an inch in thickness. The ore also 

 occurs as a massive ore of irregular thickness and associated with a thin 

 overlying stratum of sandstone. It is also found in pieces formed of small 

 cuboidal blocks intermixed with clay, and of such a character as to readily 

 crumble or fall to pieces. This last condition of the ore is not very plentiful 

 in Cass County. 



Occasional outcrops of this ore are found in the cuttings along the line of 

 the Texas and Pacific Railway from near Springdale to Kildare, a distance 

 of twenty miles. Laminated ore is also found in wells throughout the part 

 of the county lying west of the railway. 



In a cutting about a mile north of the Queen City station a deposit of 

 laminated ore about four feet thick occurs. It is here composed of thin 

 strata, averaging about one-fourth of an inch in thickness and alternately 

 dark chestnut-brown and bright orange in color. The following is a section 

 of the cutting: 



1. Surface ferruginous gravel and orange-colored sand 5 feet. 



2. Thin stratum of soft sandstone 3 inches. 



3. Laminated ore in alternate laminae of dark chestnut-brown and orange 



yellow 4 feet. 



4. Stratified white and red clayey sand (total thickness not seen) 3 feet. 



12 feet 3 inches. 



On the hill constituting the Berry Crawford iron mine, on the west side 

 of the Jane Richee headright, about a mile north of Atlanta, a broken bed 

 of massive laminated ore two feet thick lies immediately under three feet of 

 nodular ore. This class of ore also constitutes the greater portion of the ore 

 deposit found on the southwest corner of the J. B. Mix headright and east 

 side of the northern portion of the P. M. Keeton headright. In both of 

 these places it is in massive blocks, broken and tilted on edge and having the 

 appearance of being the outcrop of a bed extending east to the Berry Craw- 

 ford mine and northward through the Mix survey. Black Bayou runs along 

 the west side of this hill, and, as the underlying material is a sand, there is 

 every probability that the breaking and tilting of these blocks may be due to 

 the erosion of the underlying sand by the water of the bayou and the break- 

 ing of the unsupported ore bed. 



Extending northward from this place the same class, and probably the 

 same bed, of ore is found on the A. Birmingham and Horatio Cunningham 

 headrights. On the east side of the hill, on the M. S. Mullens headright, 

 laminated ore occurs. It is also found further to the west, on the Widow 

 Powell's farm, on the R. M. Burton headright, and northward on the south- 

 east of the Dickson Dyer, E. C. Simons, Elisha Baty, Josiah Massie, James 

 Batey, and John B. Denton headrights. 



