YOUNG COUNTY. 505 



It will be seen by this analysis that there is too much silica to render this 

 a good iron producing ore. 



PAINT. 



Materials for making mineral paint of various colors are abundant in the 

 county. 



SALT. 



At the town of Graham several years ago salt was manufactured in consid- 

 erable quantities. Salt Creek gets its name from the fact that during dry 

 periods the salt is found along the creek near the town encrusted upon the 

 rocks and gravel in the bed of the stream. The salt was made principally by 

 evaporating the water obtained from shallow wells. 



At a later period a deeper well was put down and an inexhaustible supply 

 of water found giving about twenty-two to twenty-five per cent of salt. The 

 following is a section of the well. Beginning at the top: 



1. Sandy loam 16 feet. 



2. Blue sandy clay * 3 feet. 



3. Gravel and sand 8 feet. 



4. Conglomerate 16 feet. 



5. Cream colored clay 8 feet. 



6. Yellow and bluish sandstone 10 feet. 



7. Hard yellow sandstone 5 feet. 



8. Coal 1 foot. 



9. Coarse yellow soft sandstone 4 feet. 



10. Hard quarzose conglomerate 13 feet. 



11. Fire clay, bluish 42 feet. 



12. Hard brown clay 5 feet. 



13. Brown sandstone, porous, producing gas .' 5 feet. 



14. Clay and slate 9 feet. 



15. Brown clay, very hard 8 feet. 



16. Variegated clay 148 feet. 



17. Fire clay, with thin stratum of shale 70 feet. 



18. Black slate, hard, abounding in gas 8 feet 6 inches. 



19. Red shale , 10 feet. 



20. Sandstone 1 foot 6 inches. 



Total 391 feet. 



The main Brazos River runs diagonally through the county from north- 

 west to southeast. The Clear Fork of the Brazos comes in from the south- 

 west and forms a junction with the main fork a few miles south of the town 

 of Graham. 



These rivers, with their numerous lateral streams, give abundant supplies 

 of water. 



