162 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



road running west from this place to the Upshur County line, near the Omega 

 Postofifice, with the exception that the unstratified orange colored and brown 

 siliceous pebble bearing deposits become heavier towards the west, and also 

 that the lower division of the deposit, as seen in the cuttings, assumes a more 

 regular and somewhat roughly stratified condition, as well as becoming more 

 like a soft sandstone or sand which has been consolidated and hardened by 

 exposure. These deposits are also found extending into Upshur County. 



Coming southward the country is so covered with brown and gray sands 

 that no sections are exposed until near the line of the Texas and Pacific Rail- 

 way, which runs in an east and west direction across the county. On the 

 east side of the Isaac Skillern head right, about two miles west of Longview, 

 a cutting in the course of a small creek crossing the Longview and Glade- 

 water public road shows the following section: 



1. Brown sand, mixed with gravelly pebbles of quartz and other crystalline rocks 



and ferruginous sandstones 4 feet. 



2. Stratified white and red sands and sandy clays, the white sandy clay predomi- 



nating, visible 4 feet. 



At the crossing of the Internationa] and Great Northern Railway with the 

 Longview and Kilgore public road, and lying to the east of the public road, 

 the same series of stratified red and white sands (No. 2 of above section) and 

 sandy clays, with their protective covering of ferruginous matter, is again 

 seen. 



The section is as follows: 



1. Ferruginous gravel, with crystalline pebbles, brown sand, and conglomerate 



iron ore in the form of bowlders . . .... 1 foot. 



2. Thin ferruginous partings 6 inches. 



3. Stratified red and white sands to bottom of cutting 6 feet. 



The apparent dip of these beds is towards the south. 



Another section of the same nature is also seen at Willow Switch, on the 

 Texas and Pacific Railway, about three miles west of Longview. 



A well twenty-two feet deep, on the south side of the Alexander Furguson 

 headright, is reported to have the following section: 



1. Brown sand 6 feet. 



2. Thin layer of laminated iron ore 4 inches. 



3. Red clay 14 feet. 



4. White sand, containing large quantities of gypsum in a finely divided con- 



dition • 2 feet. 



22£ feet. 

 Water was obtained in the white sand, and the thickness of the deposit is 

 unknown. 



The next section obtained was at the iron bridge, on the International and 



