MORRIS COUNTY. 



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Ordinary building bricks have been made in the neighborhood of Dainger- 

 field, but these bricks are generally rough and rather weak. No regular 

 brick yards exist, and the bricks made are only made at long intervals. 



The following sections show the general relations of the various strata of 

 this region: 



Section of cutting on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway three miles west 

 of Hughes' Springs. 



Fig. 11. 



1, Brown unstratified sand and gravel. 2, Unstratified mottled clay. 3, Black or dark blue 

 stratified clay with sandy partings. 4, Thin layer of ferruginous gravel. 5, Thinly bedded 

 or laminated white and brown sands. 6, Thin irregular pavement or bed of conglomerate 

 ore. 7, Thin beds of ferruginous sandstone. 



Section of cutting on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway two miles east of 

 Daingerfield : 



E W 



Fig. 12. 



1, Brown unstratified gravelly sand. 2, Thinly bedded white and red sand. 3, Thinly bedded 

 white and blue sand. 4, six inch layer of soft sandstone. 5, Same as No. 2. 6, Unstrati- 

 fied mottled sand. 7, Ferruginous sandstone. 



The stratified red and white sands and black micaceous sandy clays of the 

 lignitic group appear in the cuttings along the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 

 Railway in this region as far as Daingerfield. A short distance north of the 

 town these black micaceous sands are seen in a stream cutting, and show a 

 thickness in this place of eight feet. Throughout the;lower black micaceous 

 clays nodules of iron ore occur, lying in the form of thin beds or pavements. 

 These nodules are generally of large size and average from twelve to twenty- 

 four inches in their longest diameter. These pavements are somewhat irregu- 

 larly distributed throughout the cuttings, but are never superimposed upon 

 each other, and as no more than one ever appears, even in the longest cuttings, 

 it is presumed that they are continuous and all of the same horizon and formed 

 at or about the same period of time 



Beds of a sandy yellow ochreous clay also occur in these regions, but these 

 are as a general thing too sandy to be of any practical value. These clays 

 would require to be washed to free them from the intermixed sand before 

 the ochre could be utilized, and this would entail cost far beyond anything 



