JACK COUNTY. 513 



BEANNON MINE 



Is situated about two miles southeast of the mouth of Lodge Creek and on 

 the south side of the West Fork of the Trinity River. A tunnel had been 

 driven into the hill on the coal seam at this place, but it had fallen in so badly 

 at the time of my visit that I did not venture into it. 



Tbe tunnel is driven into the hill from the north side. The seam was 

 thicker here than at any place I have seen it in this vicinity. The seam could 

 be worked to advantage at this place when means of transportation can be 

 secured. The hills rise to at least two hundred feet above the seam and ex- 

 tend back for more than a mile, giving a considerable area of coal before the 

 outcrop would be reached on the east. 



At another place, about one-half mile northwest of the Brannon mine, the 

 coal again outcrops in the side of a hill. This place has never been pros- 

 pected for coal, but it is probable that it would be as good a locality for a 

 mine as at the other place. The outcrop is on the southeast side of the hill, 

 and the dip being to the northwest it would soon have sufficient cover to pro- 

 tect the seam from atmospheric influences. The hills rise to the height of 

 one hundred and fifty feet. 



On the south side of the West Fork of the Trinity River, about one mile 

 from the Brannon mine, on the south side of a hill, in a gulch, the coal seam 

 is again exposed. At this place it is only about one foot thick, but will evi- 

 dently increase to more than this farther under the hill, away from where it 

 has been exposed to the weather. This place is near the Jacksboro and Hen- 

 rietta road that crosses the West Fork of the Trinity River at the mouth of 

 Lodge Creek. 



The seam of coal could be found on the sides of any of the hills along here 

 by digging through the debris that has washed down from the hill above and 

 now hides the outcrop. On the Jacksboro and Antelope road, about two 

 miles southwest from the last described place, there is a seam of coal outcrop- 

 ping in the south side of a hill and on the north side of the road. No pros- 

 pecting has been done at this place, yet it is probable that it would be as good 

 a locality for coal as any in the vicinity. There is sufficient covering above 

 the seam to protect it from the influence of the weather, and the hills are on 

 the north side of the outcrop. One-half mile southwest from this last locality, 

 at the base of a hill, a seam of coal outcrops that appears to be a different 

 seam from that at the place just described. It is about one foot thick at the 

 outcrop. At the place of outcrop it has been greatly exposed to the influence 

 of the weather, and no prospecting having been done on it, it was impossible 

 to know just what it was. The surroundings would indicate that it was the 

 same seam as that at the Brannon mine. 



