82 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



distance of about two miles, the surface of the country is covered with yellow 

 sand having a thickness of about two feet. Nodular ore appears to underlie 

 this sand and crops out on the sides of the hills. In some places it lies scat- 

 tered over a space of fifteen or twenty feet and forms a belt along the side of 

 the ridge. On the Lavinia Mornen land and on the Martha Ingram head- 

 right ore deposits are seen cropping out from beneath a heavy deposit of the 

 same white sand. Similar outcrops are also found upon the banks of several 

 small brooks on the Willis Hester and William Gilbert headrights. The ore 

 deposits on the Ingram, Hester, and Gilbert headrights are very small and of 

 no practical value. 



On the George S. Young headright nodular ore extends over the lands oc- 

 cupied by A. Goodman and D. D. Dodd. as well as several other small patches 

 on the same headright. 



The greatest development of nodular ore occurs in the western portion of 

 the county. In this region many of the concretions reach a diameter of from 

 one and a half to two feet. On the southwest of the M. L. Ware, south side 

 of the Gideon Story, Louis Strong, Fisher and Miller, James Allen, and 

 George W. Davidson, as well as several other surveys in the same neighbor- 

 hood, great masses of this ore he upon the surface of the ground, covering 

 the sides and tops of the ridges, and overlie stratified red and white sandy 

 clay. From this ridge these ore masses extend to the Cypress bottom. On 

 the west side of the Cypress, nodular ore is found on the W. P. Dickson and 

 other headrights west to the Morris County line. In the southern part of 

 this district this ore occurs on the 0. H. King and D. H. Edmondson and 

 surveys east to the Andrew J. Fowler headright. It is also found on the 

 James Coffee, William Hutchinson, and other headrights lying upon the 

 higher grounds between Cypress Creek and its tributary streams. 



On the^John Kettrell headright and several small surveys lying to the west 

 as far as the Cypress; on the south side of the A. D. Duncan, north of the Ket- 

 trell survey ; on the W. H. Crain, Santiago Toscano, and northern part of the 

 Ambrosi Douthet headrights, concretionary nodular ore associated with a fer- 

 ruginous sandstone occurs, mixed with an orange colored sand. The ore in 

 this region is over four feet thick. 



Small quantities of nodular ore also occur on the south side of the H. J. 

 Story and Evan Watson headrights. It also occurs in small deposits through- 

 out the county, but with very few exceptions, most of which have been men- 

 tioned, these deposits are of no practical value. 



As bearing somewhat upon the origin of these concretionary ores, it may be 

 noticed that in a creek on the Patrick W. Birmingham survey there are great 

 quantities of rounded and oval-shaped nodules of clayey sand enclosed in a 

 covering of dark red oxide of iron. In appearance these clayey nodules are 



