COPPER ORE. 



449 





Parts per 100,000. 



Grains per Gal. 



Bicarbonate of soda 



279.17 



30,830.29 



470.27 



55.64 



522.82 



162.7655 



Chloride of sodium 



Chloride of magnesia 



17,979.6143 

 274.2695 



Chloride of calcium 



32.4248 



Sulphate of lime 



304.8865 









32,158.19 



18,753.9606 



Saline water contains 32.16 per cent of salts. 

 Specific gravity, 1.1980. 



COPPER ORE. 



Copper ore has been known to exist in the Permian formation of Texas 

 since 1852. It was first reported by Capt. R. B. Marcy in that year. It was 

 reported to have been found on the north side of Red River, near the mouth 

 of Cache Creek. He says: " In the course of the march to-day we met with 

 numerous detached pieces of copper ore, mixed with volcanic scoria. This 

 scoria is found in large masses in the ravines we have passed and extends 

 back several miles from the creek." An analysis made of these ores at the 

 time showed them to consist of a "calcareous amygdaloid, through which is 

 interspersed black oxide of copper and stains of malachite." 



In 1864 Col. J. B. Barry, then stationed at Fort Belknap, Young County, 

 Texas, in command of Texas State troops, sent a scouting party into Archer 

 and Wichita counties, furnishing them with Tonkawa Indians as guides, who 

 conducted the party to the centre of Archer County and showed them the de- 

 posits of copper in that vicinity. Samples of the ore were carried to Austin 

 to Gov. Pendleton Murrah, who had the same assayed by Prof. Wm. De Ryee, 

 State Chemist, who found the samples to contain 70.68 per cent of copper. 

 Some of the ore was smelted and made into percussion caps for the use of the 

 Confederate army. 



After that a company was formed and a charter obtained for mining the 

 ore in Archer County. The company located 12,275 acres of land, and at 

 various times have made attempts to develop their property. They mined 

 many hundred tons and shipped the ores to the smelters of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 and Baltimore, Md., after having hauled it overland to the railroads in some 

 instances a distance of over two hundred and fifty miles. Only the high grade 

 ores could be thus used, and all the low grade material was thrown into the 

 dump. 



The following statement made by Dr. P. A. Genth in 1882 will show the 

 quality of the ore shipped from this land in 1874: 



