184 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



tionary ore imbedded in the overlying orange colored and brown sands. These 

 brown sands have a thickness ranging from four to fifty feet, and wherever 

 cut through appear to overlie the thinly laminated dark blue micaceous sandy 

 clays of the lignitic formations. The exact areal extent of this deposit of ore 

 is not known, as the outlines have not yet been traced. 



The total area of iron ore lands within the limits of Upshur County may 

 be placed at six thousand four hundred acres, or about ten square miles. 



WOOD COUNTY. 



In Wood County the iron ores are found scattered in small bodies through- 

 out the greater extent of the county. The Wood County ores are chiefly of 

 the nodular concretionary variety of limonites, and a few deposits of the 

 laminated class and some conglomerate ores found along the margins of the 

 creeks. The heaviest deposits of these ores are found: First, on a ridge 

 running north and south through the southern portion of the Philip Gonzales 

 head right and extending south for a short distance into the I Meredith sur- 

 vey. This deposit is mostly of the nodular or concretionary variety, and car- 

 ries about 47.76 per cent of metallic iron, with 0.24 of phosphorus, 0.14 of 

 sulphur, and 14.50 per cent of silica. 



The next deposit of any size is an oval shaped hill on the east side of the 

 Win. M. L. Burnett and west side of the Joel C. Bradford headrights. The ore 

 from this region is a poor quality of limonite or a clay iron stone, carrying 

 only 34/27 per cent of metallic iron in association with 36.27 per cent of silica. 

 This ore contains 0.31 per cent of sulphuric acid and a trace of phosphorus. 

 It also contains 2.1 per cent of lime and 1.20 per cent of manganese. 



Another deposit of laminated ore occurs about one-half mile east of Lake 

 Fork and two miles north of the Texas and Pacific Railway — partly on the 

 west side of the Simon Gonzales and partly on the J. Monteith headrights. 

 This ore contains only about 29.98 per cent of metallic iron, with 40.60 per 

 cent of silica, and is therefore of no practical value as a producer of metallic 

 iron. 



About three miles northeast of the village of Mmeola there is a small de- 

 posit of concretionary ore on the G. Greer head right. The ore of this deposit 

 only shows a percentage of 27.84 per cent of metallic iron. 



In the neighborhood of the town of Quitman scattering deposits of iron 

 ore occur. These deposits are mostly of the nodular concretionary and con- 

 glomerate varieties and occur in thinly scattered quantities, covering a dis- 

 trict of from three to seven miles north and west of Quitman. Conglomerate 

 ore also occurs on the Sulphur Spring road about ten miles north of the town. 



The ores found in this region have from thirty-two to fifty-three percent of 



