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an area comprising nearly three thousand nine hundred square acres, or about 

 six square miles. 



The ores of this field consist principally of the laminated and nodular 

 grades, with the accompanying ferruginous sandstones. Analyses of these 

 ores show them to be of a moderate quality, carrying both sulphur and phos- 

 phorus in small quantities. See analyses Nos. 326 and 338. 



About three miles south of Coffeeville, on the John Parker headright and 

 near the centre of the survey, there is a small rounded deposit of concre- 

 tionary ore, having an areal extent of about two hundred square acres. See 

 analysis No. 335. 



East of this last deposit and about three miles southeast of Coffeeville there 

 is another small deposit of ore on the Wm, Hambright headright. This de- 

 posit appears from its position to be the terminal part of the extensive lami- 

 nated and conglomerate deposits found farther east on the William Murray 

 headright and extending thence into Harrison County. This deposit appears 

 to be chiefly a concretionary ore of a good grade, very low in silica and sul- 

 phur, but carrying seventeen-hundredths of one per cent of phosphorus. The 

 metallic iron is also over the average, being 56.45 per cent. See analysis 

 No. 325. This ore also carries about 0.88 per cent of lime. 



Going northeast from Gilmer, the public road to Payette crosses a ridge of 

 ore land about four miles northeast of Gilmer. This deposit, which is ap- 

 proximately three miles in length, has a width of about three-quarters of a 

 mile and comprises an area of fourteen hundred and forty square acres. Be- 

 ginning at the northeast corner of the Wm. C. King headright, the eastern 

 boundary of the deposit passes in a southeasterly direction through the Ben- 

 jamin Talbot, C. B. Teal, northeast corner of the Elias A. Burrell, and south- 

 west corner of the James Wagstaff headrights. thence through the J. M. 

 Clough and into the Alfred Hefner headrights. From this point it turns west 

 for a short distance, and then in a northwesterly direction, in a line almost 

 parallel to the eastern boundary, through the Ames W. Smith, E. A. Burrell, 

 and C. Wright headrights and into the Wm. King headright, turning east 

 to the place of starting. 



Another deposit occurs in the vicinity of the town of Gilmer. There are 

 several small deposits, the first and most extensive of which is in the form of 

 two rounded hills lying on the south side of the John J. Hooper headright, 

 comprising together an area of about thirty acres. The next deposits lie about 

 two miles west of the town and on the north side of the J. B. B. Davenport 

 headright, and have an area of ten or fifteen acres. 



In the neighborhood of Omega Postoffice, and extending as far west as 

 Glenwood Postoffice, and thence southwesterly to and including the West 

 Mountain region along the Gregg County line, there are deposits of concre- 



