CASS COUNTY. 85 



1. Yellowish white sand 6 feet. 



2. Ferruginous sandstone and iron ore nodules. .... 12 feet. 



3. Brownish yellow or orange sand, with patches of mottled white and red sand, 



the red spots being of a bright turkey red 



The blocks are all tilted towards the small extent of bottom land through 

 which this creek runs, and the tilting appears to be due to the erosion of the 

 soft underlying sands. 



A considerable deposit of the same grade of ore occurs on the north side 

 of the Ambrosi Douthet, west side of the Mathias Dillard, and east side of the 

 L. H. Walker headrights, in the southern part of the county. This deposit, 

 like all the others, occurs in large broken blocks of an irregular shape, and 

 fringes the narrow bottom lands along Cunningham's Creek. It also extends 

 northerly to near the edge of the bottom lands on the south side of Jim's 

 Bayou, on the R. C. Graham headright. 



Conglomerate ore is also found in small quantities on the west side of Flat 

 Creek, on the ML. Ware headright. 



Half a mile west of Hughes' Springs, on the west J. S. Brown survey, 

 there is a body of conglomerate ore of a very earthy quality, and still contain- 

 ing rootlets belonging to recent vegetation. This deposit has been tested for 

 the manufacture of paint, and several of the houses and workshops in the 

 village are painted with the product. It gives a dark red color, which is 

 said to stand the weather very well, but a great amount of waste occurs in 

 the manufacture. 



Near the centre of the George McAdam headright, on the Knight's Bluff 

 and Queen City road, about two miles from Queen City, conglomerate ore 

 occurs on the side of a hill and dose to a small stream belonging to the Black 

 Bayou system of drainage. This ore also occurs in broken blocks, and when 

 broken gives a bright red powder. Following down Black Bayou to the 

 Alfred Pride survey, the same quality of ore occurs in the edges of the higher 

 ground overlooking the bottom lands along the bayou. This deposit is, how- 

 ever, very much mixed with and overlaid by a ferruginous sandstone. 



Conglomerate ore occurs in greater or less quantities in other parts of the 

 county, but always in association with and close to the streams or water 

 courses. In the northern part of the county, where the district is broken by 

 numerous small streams, this ore is found near where these streams enter the 

 lower lands, approaching the second bottom land of Sulphur. A deposit 

 occurs on the north side of the W. de Woody, northwest of the James 

 T. Wood, northwest of the Jonathan K. Kolb headrights, and in a general 

 southwesterly direction to the large deposit already described on the Samuel 

 Harrison headright. 



This ore also occurs at various places along the Frazier Creek from the 



