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opened, and when that town was the county seat of Reynolds County the 

 principal building material was of the limestone from this place. It has very 

 much the same appearance as the stone at Ballinger, and is probably a part 

 of the same bed. At the town of Seymour, in Baylor County, a quarry has 

 been opened that has furnished the principal building material for that town 

 for several years. The stone was so easily quarried and wrought that it was 

 cheaper to build of stone than to haul lumber from the railway; and then a 

 stone house was so much more desirable. Now that they have a railway to 

 the town all the principal buildings are still made of this material. 



The principal quarry is in the blur! of the river one-half mile west of the 

 town. 



The following section made at the quarry will give an idea of the manner 

 of occurrence of the limestone and clay beds at this place. Beginning at the 

 top: 



1. Limestone 10 inches. 



2. Clay bed 2 inches. 



3. Limestone 10 inches. 



4. Blue clay 10 feet. 



5. Limestone . .... 10 inches. 



6. Blue clay 20 feet. 



7. Limestone 8 inches. 



8. Blue clay 20 feet. 



9. Limestone 1 foot. 



10. Blue clay 8 feet. 



11. Limestone 1 foot. 



Total , ... 63 feet 4 inches. 



The clay bed between No. 1 and No. 2 of the above section is wanting in 

 places, and the two beds of limestone are compacted into one bed making a 

 stratum twenty inches thick, and is the best stone found in this quarry. The 

 stone can be taken out in any sized pieces desired. It breaks with a smooth, 

 even surface that requires very little dressing. The court house, jail, and 

 nearly all the other buildings in the town are built of this material. 



I merely mention these localities to show the extent of the beds, not that 

 they are better at these localities than at hundreds of other places along the 

 line of the outcrop indicated. 



SANDSTONE. 



This class of stone is very abundant throughout all the beds of the Per- 

 mian, but more so in the Wichita and Clear Fork Beds 



Its color is generally a gray or pale blue that changes to a brown on ex- 

 posure by the oxidization of the small amount of iron they contain. Some 



