206 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



Gardiner and the northern portion of the John P. Potter, touches the north- 

 east corner of D. Brown head right, turns northeast again, passing through 

 the centre of Jas. Bunch survey, thence northwest to the Wm. T. White, 

 taking in the southwest corner of Peter Swanson survey; thence south 

 again through the Bennet McNeely, and skirting the western line of the 

 Ellison tract, and then taking in nearly the whole of the M. T. Hemphill 

 and Sanders surveys; from the Sanders tract it turns northwest again 

 through the McKnight, Caldwell, and Wm. Johnson surveys back to the F. 

 B. Ragsdaie, whence it started. 



The second iron field is the Steen Saline or Lindale bed. It is three miles 

 east of Lindale and five or six miles south of the Sabine River. 



Its extreme northwestern point is in the. Sam Stevens headright. From 

 this point it runs a little south of east through the southern parts of the 

 Dawson, John McCoy, and B. Jolley surveys, and breaks off in the north- 

 eastern part of the John Steen headright. Farther east, across Saline Creek, 

 it begins again on the B. Yeargan survey, and runs south through the west- 

 ern corner of the C. Secrest, and extends in a southwesterly direction through 

 the Estrada, and continues to about the centre of the Felix Flores league. 

 From here it runs northwest, cutting off the northeast corner of Pedro Del 

 Rio league, from thence through the southwestern portion of the Carmona 

 league, thence north again to the starting point on the Stevens headright. 

 A narrow ridge of ore runs southwest from the Pedro Del Rio league to the 

 Frances Gilkeson headright, west of Swan's Switch. 



The third bed is on Price's survey, still further east of Lindale, and em- 

 braces approximately the Wm. Price, S. M. Grace, Casey Green, Jas. T. 

 Shepard, and Geo. W. Welsh headrights. 



East of Winona and northwest of Starrville is another quite extensive bed 

 of ore. It begins about a mile east of Winona and runs north along Harris 

 Creek, through the Robert Walters survey, to within a mile of the Sabine 

 River; it then turns east and extends nearly to the east line of the E. Newberry 

 survey, then turns south, crossing half of the E. E. Lott survey, runs through 

 the western portion of the I. Croom, touches the southwest corner of the 

 Geo. M. Nichols survey, crosses the fork of Harris Creek, bends west, and 

 begins again in the southeast corner of Euslacha Newberry survey, runs 

 southeast through the corner of the L. W. Hall, takes in the Lagrove sur- 

 vey; thence turns west along the M. Mase, extends through the north corner 

 of the M. Sewel to the southwest corner of the M. B. Clark survey; it then 

 turns north again and skirts the eastern line of the M. B. Clark survey, back 

 again to the starting point on the Eustacha Newberry. 



Eight miles northeast of Tyler is another smaller outcropping of good ore. 

 It embraces the southern portion of the Isaac Killough, J. M. Hall, and J. C. 



