COPPER ORE. 453 



This same bed of copper is found on the Big Wichita River north of Sey- 

 mour in the vicinity of Table Top Mountain. A few years ago several thou- 

 sand pounds of ore was taken from this locality, and several deep shafts were 

 sunk, hoping to find a continuance of the copper ore at a lower depth, but 

 none was found. 



The following section was made of Table Top Mountain, beginning at the 

 bottom : 



1. Red clay 30 feet. 



2. Conglomerate 6 inches. 



3. Red clay 20 feet. 



4. Thin-bedded sandstone 4 feet. 



5. Red sandstone. 2 feet. 



6. Red sandy clay 18 feet. 



7. Red sandstone 2 feet. 



8. Red sandy clay 20 feet. 



9. Shaly fine grained argillaceous limestone 4 feet. 



Total 100 feet 6 inches. 



The following section was made three miles northwest of Table Top Moun- 

 tain and three-fourths of a mile west of the Clemmon shaft, beginning at the 

 bottom : 



1. Red shaly sandstone 4 feet. 



2. Red clay 2 feet. 



3. Conglomerate 1 foot. 



4. White thin-bedded sandstone 1 foot. 



5. Red clay 4 feet. 



6. White sandstone .- 3 feet. 



7. Red clay 20 feet. 



Total 35 feet. 



In No. 3 of the above section were found copper nodules, and. in the red 

 clay of No. 2 of the section were many remains of vertebrate animals. I 

 traced this bed of copper ore to the north side of the Big Wichita River 

 north of the mouth of Coffee Creek. It occupies the same relation to the 

 limestone of the Clear Fork division as it does at Paint Creek in Haskell 

 County. 



The upper bed of copper occurs in the Double Mountain Beds of the Per- 

 mian. I first saw it at our crossing of the Brazos River, a few miles below 

 the confluence of the Double Mountain and. the Salt Fork, and a few miles 

 east of Kiowa Peak in Stonewall County, The following section was made 

 at that place: 



37— geol. 



