NACOGDOCHES COUNTY. 



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On the same road, five miles from Looneyville, on the M. J. Cook tract of 

 land, A. Oliver headright, is a bed of wavy laminated and buff crumbly iron 

 ore. This bed is capped with the usual thin crust, about two inches, of com- 

 pact iron sandstone. This locality is within the Brewer's Mountain bed, and 

 extends about five miles nearly east and west by two and a half miles north 

 and south, making about fifteen miles in circumference. From the northeast 

 end of Brewer's Mountain can be seen Elkin's Mountain, now called Iron 

 Mountain, in Rusk County, which is seven miles distant and was once in con- 

 nection as part of the elevated Tertiary plain. 



Returning to Nacogdoches by the Indian Creek road, some two miles be- 

 fore its intersection with the Tyler road, or about ten miles northwest from 

 the town of Nacogdoches, was passed the site of an old forge, locally called 

 "foundry," established during the Civil War, and successfully worked for 

 the production of malleable bar iron in 1863-64 by R. W. McLain, and after 

 by McLain and Highter. The quality of this iron was reported to be excel- 

 lent by a blacksmith who had used it, and who still had a sample of it. 



The nearest railway to Brewer's Mountain is the Houston East and West 

 Texas, and the shipping point Nacogdoches. Sterne Station is a few miles 

 nearer, but from this point there is no direct established public road. 



ANALYSES OF IRON ORES. 



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670* 



60.47 

 60.81 

 65 79 

 59.56 

 48.33 

 39.45 



21.80 

 19.80 

 22.70 

 20.30 

 34.90 

 36.95 



12.93 

 13.19 













42.31 

 42.56 

 46.05 

 41.69 

 33.83 

 27.61 





671* 















672 f 



673 * 













11.64 



7.27 



13.65 



1.27 

 Trace . 



.01 



Trace 

 Trace . 



Trace . 



7.20 

 9.45 

 7.00 



1.33 



674 f 



699 f 





.83 



Trace . 



1.20 



.60 



1.31 



Analysis by * J. H. Herndon; f L. E. Magnenat. 



Localities. 



No. 670. Conglomerate iron ore, eight and one-fourth miles west of Nacogdoches. 



No. 671. Conglomerate iron ore, twelve miles west of Nacogdoches. 



No. 672. Conglomerate iron ore, twelve miles southwest of Nacogdoches. 



No. 673. Laminated (wavy) iron ore, Brewer's Mountain, seventeen miles northwest of 

 Nacogdoches. 



No. 674. Buff crumbly iron ore, Brewer's Mountain, seventeen miles northwest of Na- 

 cogdoches. 



No. 699. Ochreous iron ore, fifteen and one-half miles north by west from Nacogdoches. 



