130 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



The estimated thickness of the ores in this region may be considered as 

 not exceeding a maximum of fourteen feet. 



Coming east from this place the ores on the B. Wilson and D. Maxwell 

 headrights do not exceed two feet. These are laminated and lie too deep for 

 practical purposes. On the north side of the John Beaty, near Montvale 

 Mineral Springs, the thickness is about four feet. On the Wm. Beckwell 

 headright a very siliceous ore in blocks ranging from four to ten feet or more 

 in length and from five to six feet in thickness caps some of the hills near 

 Lancaster's Mill, and also occurs surmounting some of the higher hills on the 

 J. Petsick headright. To the south of this, on the Stinson lands and the 

 W. C. Allan headright the ores are mostly a conglomerate, with thinly 

 bedded laminated ore underneath. The conglomerate lies mostly in its usual 

 position along the margin of the higher ground close to Little Cypress 

 Creek bottom lands or along the edges of the ravines formed by the small 

 streams flowing into these bottoms. The ore in these lands, including the 

 conglomerate deposits and underlying laminated ore beds, does not exceed 

 five feet. 



Along the D. Bryan, M. Hunt, and Daniel McPhail lands, and where the 

 higher lands approach the Cypress bottoms, laminated ore crops out in vari- 

 ous thicknesses, culminating in a bed five feet thick found in a well on the 

 A. Dean headright at M. B. Alexander's house. 



On the south side of the Little Cypress the thickest ore deposits reach the 

 maximum of fourteen feet and in some places may exceed this, though in 

 the majority of the ore locations the ore does not exceed four or five feet, 

 and in many not more than two or three feet. In the western part of the 

 ridge, on the Robert Hightower land, the beds of laminated ore have a 

 thickness of over ten feet. It is somewhat thicker on the Peter Pinchum 

 headright, where a break across the headright near the northern side shows 

 a bluff of nearly fifty feet covered with projecting blocks of a siliceous ore; 

 the thickness is probably from eight to ten feet. The deposit gets thinner 

 as it comes east, as on the J. Bowen and Dan Davis and northern side of the 

 Wm. Nelson headrights it falls to two or three feet. On the Seth Sheldon 

 and John Deckert headrights the ore hills reach an altitude of six hundred 

 and twelve and six hundred and forty feet, and so far as could be seen the 

 ore covering averages a thickness of ahout five or six feet. It may be 

 thicker, but its lower division is very liable to be considerably mixed with a 

 brownish yellow sand. 



On the Clery Grillet headright the. surface ore in no place exceeds four or 

 five feet. A deposit of conglomerate ore on the east side near the W. C. 

 Duffield headright shows a ridge of blocks measuring from five to six feet in 

 length and from two to four feet in thickness. In the northern part of this 



