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THE IRON OEE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



they would realize if brought to market. Bricks have been made of this 

 material in the neighborhood of Hughes' Springs, but they are not consid- 

 ered of a good quality. 



UPSHUR COUNTY. 



The next county south of Morris County, and lying within the ore boundary 

 already defined, is Upshur County. From our present knowledge of the iron 

 ore deposits of Upshur County, their mode of occurrence appears to be in the 

 form of small patches, ranging from fifteen or twenty acres to thirty-eight 

 hundred and forty acres in extent and somewhat scattering in their positions. 

 From the specimens obtained these ores belong chiefly to the geode or nodu- 

 lar concretionary and conglomerate varieties, and the analyses made in the 

 laboratory of the Survey give the following results: 



ANALYSES 



OF IRON 



ORES COLLECTED IN UPSHUR COUNTY 



BY MR. 0. E. LADD 





No. 



& 



CO 

 0) 



1 



OS 



a 

 £ 



< 



o 

 CO 



o . 



Pi 



1 6 | 



3 § 



i 



h3 



3 



o 

 H 





319f... 

 325*. . . 

 326+... 

 335*.. . 



61.51 

 80.78 

 65.79 

 71.78 

 66.09 

 48.65 



k 22.32 

 4.30 



18.77 

 14.10 

 11.85 

 26.07 



6.03 

 2 22 

 8.31 

 2.82 

 6.91 

 12.65 



0.10 

 0.02 

 0.36 

 0.28 

 0.37 

 0.26 



0.16 

 0.38 



Trace. 



Trace. 

 0.28 



Trace. 



Trace. 

 0.88 

 2.30 



Trace. 



Trace. 

 Trace. 

 Trace. 



10.04 

 10.47 

 5.05 

 11.10 

 12.40 

 10.30 



100.22 

 99.05 



100.58 



100.08 

 99.71 



100.23 



43.09 

 56.44 

 46.05 

 50.24 



338*... 

 341+.. . 



1 81 ! Trace. 

 2.30 i Trace. 



46.23 

 34.05 



Analyses made in the Laboratory of the Geological Survey of Texas by *J. H. Herndon, |L. E. Magnenat. 



Localities. 



No. 319. Ahira Butler headright, northeast corner Upshur County. 



No. 325. Three miles southeast of CofEeeville, on the Wm. Hambright headright. 



No. 326. Ahira Butler headright, in northeast corner Upshur County. 



No.. 335. Two miles southwest of Coffeeville, on the John Parker headright. 



No. 338. Ahira Butler headright. 



No. 341. Northeast corner Upshur County. 



Beginning at the northeast corner of the county, the first deposit of ore is 

 a straggling remnant of the conglomerate deposits found in the western end 

 of Marion County and the northwestern portion of Harrison County, on the 

 Wm. Murray headright. 



Northwest of this deposit and about a mile from the village of Coffeeville 

 a deposit of ore, extending in a general northwesterly direction for nearly 

 four miles and having a width of about one and a half miles at its greatest 

 diameter, occupies a large portion of the western side of the Ahira Butler 

 headright, the whole of the J. Martin and N. S. Paymenter headrights, and 

 portions of the east side of the E. Wilkerson and W. G. Holloway headrights, 



