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Bed No. 3 occurs in a brook on the Bishop farm, on the Boly C. Walters 

 headright, about a mile north of Athens. This clay is a pale brown and 

 blue color, and underlies a pavement of large ferruginous bowlders and has 

 a thickness of over six feet. A section of the opening gives the following: 



1. Yellow sandy clay and sand 2 feet. 



2. Bowlder bed 6 to 1 inches. 



3. Brownish blue clay 6 feet. 



This deposit appears to underlie the M. K. Miller deposit and overlie the 

 deposits found close to the town of Athens. This clay has never been used 

 for manufacturing purposes. 



Bed No. 4 occurs about a quarter of a mile west of the town. This is the 

 most extensively developed deposit of clay known in Henderson County. 

 Outcroppings of this deposit are found in numerous places throughout the 

 Thomas Parmer and B. A. Clark headrights, and underlies the whole of the 

 town of Athens. The western edge of the bed so far as yet known is seen 

 outcropping in two small cuttings on the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas 

 Railway, about a mile west of Athens. The bed has a slight dip to the east, 

 or a little south of east, and a tendency to thicken in its easterly course. At 

 the pit opened by the Texas Fire Brick and Tile Company's works this bed 

 has a thickness of two feet at the western end of the pit, but rapidly thickens 

 to eleven feet, and at Henry Morrison's pit on the Clark headright, one mile 

 east of the town, it has a thickness of twelve feet. The clay is light, almost 

 white in color, and overlies a fine white, even-grained siliceous sand. A 

 section of the Texas Fire Brick and Tile Company's pit gives the following: 



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a, Texas Fire Brick and Tile Company pit. b, Henry Morrison pit. 



1 . Yellowish brown sandy clay 5 feet. 



2. "White colored fire clay 2 to 1 1 feet. 



3. Fine white sand 5 feet. 



4. White clay 1 f 00 t. 



5. Pale blue sandy clay (known to be) 4 feet. 



The section at Henry Morrison's pit gives the following: 



1. Yellowish brown sandy clay 5 feet. 



2. Light bluish white clay, containing small spots of bright red in the upper divi- 



sion, but becoming white in the lower 12 feet. 



3. Fine white sand 



The areal extent of this bed or deposit is not known, but the numerous 



openings which have been made indicate its having a workable area of nearly 



two miles in length and over a mile in width. An opening made in this de- 

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