HARRISON COUNTY. 1 1 5 



CHAPTER III. 



HARRISON COUNTY. 



BY WM. KENNEDY. 



THE IRON ORE REGION. 



The iron ore deposits of Harrison County form a part of the great ore bear- 

 ing belt extending through East Texas from Sulphur Fork of the Red River, 

 on the northern boundary of Cass County, southward through Cass, Marion, 

 Harrison, Upshur, Gregg, and other counties. 



The boundaries of the Harrison County ore bearing lands may be roughly 

 localized as follows: Beginning at the Gregg County line, near the south 

 side of the David Hill head right, and running east to the west side of the 

 W. S. Smith headright, thence turning southeasterly to the southwest corner 

 of the W. C. Crawford headright. From this point it turns north, curving 

 around to the southwest corner of the upper division of the W. Mcllvain 

 headright, thence east to the middle of the western half of the south side of 

 the William Patton headright, and then southeasterly through the Jose 

 Sanchez headright, extending a short distance into the John M. Dorr head- 

 right. The line then turns east by north to near the northeast corner of the 

 same headright, and then follows the left bank of the Potter Creek, at a short 

 distance west of the creek, into and through the S. P. Hall headright. Turn- 

 ing on the left bank of Potter's Creek, it follows the course of that stream to 

 near the centre of the Clery Grillet headright. The line then turns sharply 

 east to the southeast corner of the Ephraim Tally headright, thence north 

 along the east side of the same to the south side of the Samuel Jordan head- 

 right. From the Jordan headright the line continues in a broken condition 

 to the east side of the Robert W. Smith headright, with a few detached out- 

 lying knolls on the D. Macdonald and J. Prewitt head rights. From the 

 southeast corner of the Robert W. Smith headright the main line turns 

 northerly through the Smith and Henry Martin head rights, northeasterly 

 through the Thomas Gray, Joseph E. White, and John Johnson headrights, 

 and into the Joel B. Crain headright. In the southwestern end of the Crain 

 headright the ore line turns westerly through the Crain, J. C. Post, Lewis 

 Watkins, and Thomas Gray headrights to the bottom lands of the Little 

 Cypress Creek. The line then follows the margin of the Cypress bottom 

 lands to the southwest corner of the James Gormon headright, and then south 

 by east through the Henry W. Vardaman headright to the northwest corner 



of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company, westerly 

 15— geol. 



