BORDER COUNTIES. 173 



CHAPTER V. 



MORRIS, UPSHUR WOOD, VAN ZANDT, AND 

 HENDERSON COUNTIES. 



BY WM. KENNEDY. 



The counties of Morris, Upshur, Wood, Van Zandt, and Henderson mark 

 the northwestern limit of the iron region of East Texas. A line drawn from 

 the eastern side of Morris County, about four miles north of Hughes' Springs 

 Station, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, and running in a south- 

 erly direction through Morris County to a few miles west of the point where 

 the Upshur County line intersects Big Cypress Bayou, thence in a south- 

 westerly direction to about three miles north of Gilmer; from there in a 

 westerly direction to near Quitman, in Wood County; thence southwest 

 through Wood, crossing the Sabine near Mineola, and then in a south- 

 westerly direction to near the centre of the south line of Van Zandt County, 

 near Beaver Creek; crossing into Henderson and turning back in a south- 

 easterly direction to near Brownsborough, and thence southwesterly into 

 Anderson County, near the Trinity River, will give an approximate boundary 

 to the western and northwestern edge of the brown hematite iron ore fields 

 of East Texas. 



The ore deposits lying along and within the boundary thus approximately 

 given are not extensively developed in any of the counties named. In Morris 

 they are found as extensions or outliers belonging to the Cass and Marion 

 County deposits. In Upshur and Wood counties the ore deposits are found 

 partly as extensions from other counties and partly as isolated deposits scat- 

 tered over the eastern and southern portions of the counties; and in Van 

 Zandt and Henderson the ore deposits occur altogether in isolated hills, in 

 the southwestern portion of Van Zandt and northeastern and southeastern 

 portions of Henderson. 



The total area of these ore deposits^ does not exceed seventy square miles, 

 and is distributed among the various counties as follows: 



1. Morris County 15 square miles. 



2. Upshur County . 10 square miles. 



3. "Wood County ". 25 square miles. 



4. Van Zandt County 1 square mile. 



5. Henderson County 1$ square miles. 



Total 70 square miles. 



The ore deposits found along the boundary line thus drawn are mostly of 

 the nodular concretionary variety throughout Morris and Upshur counties. 



