HENDERSON COUNTY. 187 



The next deposit of ore found lies in the neighborhood of Brownsboro 

 Station, on the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway. This deposit occurs 

 in a long narrow range of flat-topped hills, having a general course of from 

 a few degrees west of north to southeast. The general elevation of these 

 hills does not exceed one hundred and forty feet above the level of the bottom 

 lands of Kickapoo Creek on the north and of Flat Creek on the south. This 

 deposit begins on the south side of the Dickers Parker headright, and the 

 east side runs east of south to near the center of the north side of the J. 

 Carver headright, whence it turns east to the west side of the J. N. Gaines 

 headright, thence south to near the southwest corner of the Gaines headright. 

 From this the line turns west to the east side of the Susan Head headright, 

 and from there turns west of north to the Dickers Parker survey. The area 

 of this field comprises about eighteen hundred acres. 



Crossing the broad flat bottom lands belonging to the Flat Creek drainage 

 area, the next iron ore field, and by far the most extensive ore region in Hen- 

 derson County, lies in the district between Mulberry Creek on the north and 

 Caddo Bayou on the south. Towards the east this field is limited by the 

 broad bottom lands of the Neches River, and on the west by a series of de- 

 posits of yellow sand. The boundary of this field, beginning at the south- 

 east corner of the James McDonald headright, passes south through the 

 Maria Trinidad Equis headright to the north side of the Juan Jose Martinez 

 survey, then turns east to near the west side of the Thomas Chafim headright. 

 From this point the line curves around to the northeast corner of the E. 

 Cazanova headright, and thence with a gentle curve southwesterly to the 

 southeast corner of the A. H. Caldwell headright. From there the ridge 

 turns southeastward and crosses the Anderson County line on the Alfred 

 Benge headright. The western boundary of the field passes northwesterly 

 through the A. Benge and D. M. Dickerson headrights into the east side of 

 the Isaac Burton headright. Turning northeast it reaches the southwest 

 corner of the Juan Jose Martinez headright, and thence southwest to the 

 southwest corner of the W. L. Scott headright. From here the ore boundary 

 passes north along the W. L. Scott and Simon Boon headrights to Boon 

 Mountain, on the northwest corner of the A. K. Jones headright; thence 

 northeast to the southwest corner of along the south side of the James Mc- 

 Donald headright to. the southeast corner. The total area of this field is 

 nearly fourteen square miles. 



The region covered by this field presents a series of rounded, oval shaped, 

 and long, narrow, steep-sided hills or ridges, having a general uniform eleva- 

 tion of from one hundred and forty to one hundred and sixty feet (bar.) 

 above the bottoms of the creeks in the neighborhood. 



The sides of the ravines cut by the creeks show a complicated series of 



