78 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



The upper surface of this area is for the most part covered by a heavy 

 deposit of yellow sand, and the ore deposit lies exposed at various places 

 along the breaks and small streams in the district. The ore is, as usual, 

 overlaid by a thin stratum of sandstone, which is in turn overlaid by these 

 deposits of unstratified yellow sand. This sand is about ten feet in thick- 

 ness over the greater part of the area, but in several places on the Douglas- 

 ville and Atlanta road it rises in hills of over fifty feet. A section of the 

 hill on the east Josiah Massie gives the following: 



1. Yellow sand (unstratified) . . 10 feet. 



2. Ferruginous sandstone and laminated ore, showing twelve feet on slope of hill 



and forming a bench 4 feet. 



3. Brownish-yellow sand to foot of hill 20 feet. 



This same class of ore is also found on the Squire Frazier headright. 



Northeasterly from this place, and on the James Clements headright, an 

 outcrop of the thin laminated chestnut brown and yellow ore is seen in a cut- 

 ting in an old wagon road along the side of a ridge, near Mrs. Rodgers' 

 house, where it presents a section of 



1. Ferruginous gravel, with nodules of ore and yellow sand 12 feet. 



2. Thinly laminated chestnut and yellow ore l-£ feet. 



3. Brown sand (thickness not seen) 2 feet. 



15£ feet. 



Ferruginous sandstones and thinly bedded but much broken laminated ore 

 occur in the northeastern part of the county. On the Nic. Edgar headright, 

 west side of the Daniel McKinney and north side of the Buffalo Bayou and 

 Colorado Railroad Company's surveys, laminated ore in a fragmentary condi- 

 tion occurs. In this district it lies close to the tops of the hills, and in some 

 places forms the cap. This ore is underlaid by an orange colored sand. 



In the central part of the county laminated ore occurs in the vicinity of 

 Linden. It is seen in thin beds on the .south side of the town, and on the 

 northeast corner of the Matthew Powell headright, a little over a mile north 

 of Linden, it has a thickness of ten or twelve inches and is overlaid by a de- 

 posit of yellow sand, which, half a mile southwest, has a thickness of over 

 thirty feet. 



In the region containing the Lavinia Mornen survey Cass County school 

 lands, J. N. Jackson, and associated small surveys, laminated ore occurs not 

 only near the surface, but also in small seams or beds at various depths from 

 twelve to sixty feet. With the exception of a few spots of several acres each, 

 the country is covered by a light yellow unstratified sand. Where the ore 

 occurs upon the surface it consists of nodular concretionary ore with a good 

 quality of laminated ore in a broken and fragmentary condition. The wells 

 throughout the region show the underlying beds of laminated ore to be very 



