256 THE IRON ORB DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



Horticulture has also made some progress in this county, and the peach 

 here, as in California, is the leading orchard fruit. 



CLAYS. 



This county, like the preceding counties, has an abundance of clay suitable 

 for bricks, tiles, etc. It also has extensive pockets of washed clay, derived 

 from the lignitic clay shales, which, with proper tempering, are admirably 

 adapted to the production of coarse pottery, such as jugs, milk crocks, 

 sewer pipe, etc. Such a bed exists near the town of Henderson, and was 

 extensively worked by a pottery enterprise as far back as forty years ago. 

 About one-half mile northeast of the court house is now the Henderson Pot- 

 tery Works, organized in February, 1890, and chartered in March of the 

 same year. The plant consists of one brick dome kiln about thirty feet high 

 and sixteen feet diameter; one wooden factory building, ninety feet by forty 

 feet, containing one pug mill, six potter's lathes, and one slip machine for 

 glazing the ware. The manager is using for the best ware the pinkish gray, 

 clay from the bed formerly used by the older, pottery. He is also using a 

 yellow mottled clay, mixed with sand, for producing a furnace brick. Also, 

 a grayish white clay for making a semi- vitrified brick for walling in cisterns, 

 street paving, etc. The writer is indebted to him for specimens of ware for 

 the State Museum. 



About two miles east of Mount Enterprise, or fifteen miles west of Gar- 

 rison, is a t?ed of red clay ten feet thick, overlying a bed of orange loam five 

 feet thick, under which is a bed of red and yellow mottled clay eight feet in 

 thickness. (See section on page 263.) 



About fifteen miles southeast of Henderson, in the Minden road, is a bed 

 of red clay eight feet thick, overlying six feet of orange loam. (See section 

 on page 264.) 



About two or three miles northeast of Henderson, on the Alma, Beckville 

 and Grand Bluff road, is a bed of mottled red and grayish white clay under- 

 lying the orange loam. This mottled clay, by the weathering of the red and 

 white, often imparts a pinkish hue to the washed exposures of the clay. 



On the northern exposure of the hillside at Millville is a bed of red clay 

 eight feet thick, overlaid by typical orange sand and underlaid by a six feet 

 bed of mottled red and gray clay. (See section on page 264.) 



At Sulphur Spring, eighteen miles south of Henderson, is a bed of clay 

 four feet, and a bed of yellow sandy clay eight feet. (See Fig. 21, under 

 Stratigraphy.) 



About six and one half miles west of Henderson, on the Larissa road, is a 

 bed of deep red clay, overlying the lower bed of orange loam. 



