HARRISON COUNTY. 159 



Sulphate of soda 8.670 



Sulphate of alumina 6 . 389 



Silica and insoluble matter 5 .481 



Sulphate of potash 3 848 



Total grains per water gallon of 231 cubic inches 112.077 



Free carbonic acid ga^ 15.19 cubic inches per gallon. 



Temperature at well 68°. Specific gravity not determined. 



The water has a strong acid reaction and is of a pale amber color. 



Note. — On reaching the Laboratory a large amount of the iron had become oxydized and 

 precipitated. The jug containing the water was well shaken and portions taken for analysis, 

 J. H. Herndon, analyst. 



Montvale Springs is a newly organized place of resort, and lies on the line 

 of the Marshall and Northwestern Railway, about sixteen miles from Mar- 

 shall. The following is an analysis of this spring: 



Bisulphate of potash . , 1 . 307 



Bisulphate of soda . 609 



Sulphate of lime ... .... 1.516 



Carbonate of lime 0.723 



Carbonate of iron . 844 



Alumina Trace. 



Silica and insoluble matter . 1 .924 



Chlorine Trace. 



Total grains per water gallon of 231 cubic inches 6 . 923 



Free carbonic acid gas, 15.52 cubic inches per gallon. 



Temperature at well 65°. 



This water has a slight acid reaction. 



Analysis by L. E. Magnenat. 



TIMBER. 



The total area of Harrison County is computed at eight hundred and 

 ninety-nine square miles, or five hundred and seventy-five thousand three 

 hundred and sixty acres. Of this, about three-fourths, or four hundred and 

 thirty-one thousand five hundred and twenty acres, are covered with timber 

 of various classes and different stages of growth. In the older timbered dis- 

 tricts the growth consists of the different classes of oak — red, white, black- 

 jack, post, and pin oak, with a quantity of bluejack oak on the sand hills; 

 pine, hickory, walnut, ash, cypress, black and sweet gum, with the smaller 

 growths of elm, holly, sassafras, and persimmon. The undergrowth in many- 

 places is dense. Cane grows upon the wet border lands of the streams. 



In the newer timber lands, or lands thrown out of cultivation within the 

 last 'fifteen or twenty years, pines greatly preponderate and are growing up 

 rapidly, to the almost total exclusion of every other kind of timber. When 

 cultivation ceases, and the land is thrown out, young sassafras and persim- 

 mon trees take possession and keep the lead for a year or two, then the pine 



