134 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS, 



east of the springs. The eastern sides of these hills are mostly occupied by- 

 deposits of siliceous, massive, laminated ore and ferruginous sandstones. In 

 these localities the laminated ore forming the cap covering the summits of 

 these hills has a thickness of about eight or ten feet. 



On the Thomas Gray and Lewis Watkins headrights, in the northeastern 

 portion of the ore region, there is a ridge of laminated ore consisting chiefly 

 of broken fragments or bowlders of laminated ore and ferruginous sand- 

 stone. This ridge lies upon a re'd sandy clay or sand, and has a thickness of 

 about two feet. Underneath this red sandy clay there occurs another deposit 

 or bed of ferruginous sandstone and massive laminated ore about two feet 

 in thickness. The following is in a section of the region: 



1. Broken fragments of massive laminated ore and ferruginous sandstone 2 feet. 



2. Red sandy clay '. , . . 3 feet. 



3. Ferruginous sandstone 1 foot. 



4. Massive laminated ore 2 feet. 



5. White and red sand and sandy clay stratified in thin laminae. 



In the northwest part of the county, on Eagle Creek, beds of massive 

 laminated ore occur in the form of large blocks from eight to ten or twelve 

 feet in length and from one to three feet in thickness Similar deposits oc- 

 cur in many places in this region, but as a general thing the blocks have 

 been broken into small pieces. 



These are all surface ores, but in many places throughout the county the 

 beds of laminated ore are found under heavy deposits of yellow, brown, and 

 gray sands. 



On the north side of the Little Cypress, on the A. Dean headright, a bed 

 five feet thick lies under a deposit of gray sand ten feet thick. The follow- 

 ing section shows its position: 



1. Gray sand 10 feet. 



2. Laminated ore 5 feet. 



The broken edge of this depesit appears in the Coffeeville road about two 

 hundred and fifty yards southeast of this place. 



On the W. C. Allan headright a bed of laminated ore two feet thick lies 

 beneath twenty-one feet of gray sand, conglomerate ore, and a greenish yel- 

 low spotted sand. 



On the south side of the Little Cypress wells dug in several places show 

 the presence of laminated ore in various thicknesses and at different depths. 

 A well on the Clery Grillet headright shows a deposit of a dark brown 

 thinly laminated ore six feet thick at a depth of twenty-seven feet. In this 

 well another deposit is found ten feet deeper, but the thickness is not known. 



On the south side of the John M. Clifton, James B. Chaffin, and Henry 

 Teal headrights, thin deposits of laminated ore occur lying under a brown 



