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The available coal area in this vicinity is at least eight miles wide. Five 

 miles southwest of Crystal Falls there is another outcrop of the seam, and 

 again about eight miles southwest, at a place called Coal Mountain, the coal 

 crops out on all sides of the hill. On the eastern side of the mountain the 

 coal is twenty inches thick, with a band of slate four inches above, and then 

 a seam of coal nine inches thick. Considerable prospecting has been done 

 here at one time, and the coal mined was taken to Fort Griffin, but since the 

 removal of the troops from that place the work has been abandoned. 



Above this seam at the height of ten feet at this place another seam comes 

 in that is ten inches thick, and again about ten feet above that is another 

 seam one foot thick That the lower seam mentioned at that place is No. 7 

 and the same as seen at Crystal Falls there is no doubt. The very charac- 

 teristics of the coal and the inter bedded band of slate, as well as the shale 

 containing the hard sandstone concretions and pieces of selenite, would prove 

 it the same, but the seams above are local and have not been seen elsewhere. 



At a hill about one-fourth of a mile southwest of Coal Mountain there is 

 another outcrop of Seam No. 7, showing the same parting of clay and the 

 same clay containing the hard sandstone concretions. 



Again, at the mouth of Sandy Creek, in the channel of that creek, the 

 seam again outcrops. At this place all the strata above the coal have been 

 destroyed and the sand and gravel deposited on the top of the coal seam. 

 Again the hard concretions of sandstone are seen in the clay below the coal 

 seam as at the other places. 



On Sandy Creek, about fourteen miles southwest from Breckenridge and 

 one mile and a half above the old road from Belle Plain to Breckenridge, the 

 coal outcrops in the bed of the creek. The upper stratum above the coal has 

 been destroyed and the gravel has been redeposited on the top of the coal. 

 If it shall be found desirable at any time to open the seam at this place suffi- 

 cient cover will be found by going a short distance westward to where the 

 hills rise to the height of one hundred feet or more above the valley of the 

 creek. 



BROWN COUNTY. 



TOPOGRAPHY AND DRAINAGE. 



This county is traversed from the northwest to the southeast nearly through 

 the centre of the county by Pecan Bayou, a stream of considerable size and 

 having its source near the western line of Callahan County. 



Jim Ned Creek, a large affluent of Pecan Bayou, comes in from the west 

 side, running into the bayou twelve miles north of the town of Brown wood. 



Several other streams flow through the county in various directions. The 



