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many places throughout the lower eastern portions of the county, where it 

 forms the great proportion of the ore. An extensive deposit occurs along the 

 banks of the Little Beach Creek, on the Samuel Burnham and James Harris 

 headrights, about four miles west Of the Arkansas State line. In this deposit 

 the nodules average about ten inches in diameter, and when broken present a 

 steel blue appearance. The deposit lies in a loosely bedded form over the 

 headrights named, and appears to have a thickness of about two feet, and is 

 overlaid by a light yellow sand, averaging from one to ten feet in thickness. 

 Above the ore deposit there lies a broken fragmentary bed of ferruginous 

 sandstone. 



Scattered over the Jane Richee headright deposits of nodular ore of vary- 

 ing thicknesses occur. On the road from Atlanta to Queen City the deposit 

 is only a few inches thick and lies upon the stratified white and red sands. In 

 the hills at Berry Crawford's mine this ore has a thickness of three feet. This 

 ore has been mined by the Lone Star Furnace Company, of Jefferson. 



Northward from Atlanta nodular ore is found thinly scattered over the 

 greater part of the Willis Pitman, Jane Richee, James Clements, Samuel 

 Harrison, and a part of the Horatio Cunningham headrights. On the Willis 

 Pitman and Jane Richee headrights the ore is covered by a deposit of yellow 

 sand. On the Horatio Cunningham and other headrights it lies mostly upon 

 the surface in a broken condition. Northward, along the line of the Texas 

 and Pacific Railway to near Springdale, the surface ot the higher ground is 

 strewn with fragments of this ore. 



Beginning near Springdale and extending in a northwesterly direction, a 

 ridge of ore and sand with its spurs embraces the greater parts of the James 

 Horton, Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railway, A. Goodman, William Kolb, 

 W. de Woody, James T. Wood, Howard Reames, and P. Hall headrights, 

 and the southern half of the John Myers survey. This ridge thr(*ughout its 

 greatest extent is covered by a compact ore and gravel associated with a fer- 

 ruginous sandstone. The P. Hall headright and part of the Cannon Smith 

 headrights have a covering of yellow sand varying from one to ten feet deep 

 overlying the ore. Fragments of laminated and conglomerate ores occur 

 through this ridge, but the nodular concretionary ore forms the greater pro- 

 portion. The ore in this region is a little over four feet in thickness, and is 

 underlaid by a red clayey sand. 



In the central portion of the ore region of the county nodular ore occurs 

 intermixed with light yellow-colored sand. On the Cass Count j school land, 

 near Mr. Renaud's house, this ore lies upon the surface, and is also found in 

 his well several feet in thickness. At W. R. Brown's house, on the same 

 land, the nodular ore forms the surface, and occurred in a well fifty feet deep 

 all the way down to the depth of thirty feet. Between these two pi ces, a 



