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running towards the coast in the moist direct course conformahle to the one 
the sections were wanted, offered the best data obtainable, and conse- 
quently the line of the section was begun on the border of the Cretaceous 
area three and a half miles east of Terrell, in Kaufman county, and carried 
along the following roads: 
“1. Prom Terrell to Mineola, along the line of the Texas and Paci- 
fic Rail way, in a general east by south course ..46 miles. 
2. Prom Mineola to Tyler, along the International and Great 
iN’orthern Railway, southerly 25 miles. 
3. From Tyler, southwestward, through Smith, (Cherokee and! 
'Angelina counties, to Lufkin, along the line of the Tyler 
(Southeastern (Railway 90 miles. 
4 j Prom the Angelina river, south, along the 'Houston East and 
(West Texas Railway, to Corrigan, in Polk county 28 miles. 
5. Prom Corrigan, east and southeast, along the Trinity and 
Sabine Railway, to Colmesneil, in Tyler county 29 miles. 
6. Prom Rockland, on the Neches river, south, along the Southern 
Pacific Railway, to Sabine Pass 73 miles. 
“This gives a total line of sections of 291 miles, in a course more or legs 
in acGordanee with the general dip of the Tertiary and newer deposits of 
the Sitate. In addition to the region in the immediate vicinity of the 
section, many other places were examined, and where possible have been 
brought into the line. 
“The results arrived at may be briefiy skown in the following table, 
giving the thickness of the different series of deposits. 
“I. Recent Material 50 feet. 
II. Quaternary — 
1. iSands and gravels 60 feet. 
Clays including the Coast Clays 100 feet. 160 feet. 
III. 
IV. 
Miocene (tentatively) Grand Gulf — ■ 
1. Blue limy clays and gray sands containing 
fossil palm wo'od, seen at Pleming, in 
Tyler county 260 feet. 
2. Payette sands and sandstones. 490 feet. 
3. Angelina county beds, laminated blue gyp- 
seous clays 100 ? feet. 
850 feet. 
Eocene equivalent to Timber Belt beds — ■ 
1. Marine deposits, divided into — 
la. Upper, or Cook’s Moun- 
tain series 390 feet. 
b. Lower, or Mount Selman 
series 260 feet. 
650 feet. 
2. Lignitic deposits — 
a. At Mineola 600 feet. 
b. At Grand Saline 300 feet. 
900 feet. 
