Recokd of Geology of Texas, 1 S 81 - 189 Q. 
191 
Kennedy, W. 
The locality .selected was a low mound five miles south of Beaumont. 
“iSour wells” along the base of the western side. (Character of the waters. 
iBeasons for locating the boring here. 'Depth 400 feet. Seotion. Hydro- 
gen sulphide. Gas' phenomenon shown by a smaller boring, 60 feet deep, 
near the larger. Emission of gas and mud. 300 feet west of the well, at 
the base lof the mound, the )same liquid, sandy mud was found, in excavat- 
ing a pond, at the depth of 18 feet. In the bottom of the pond there were 
many lumps of brown oleaginous mud, and gas vents, with a thin coating 
ef sulphur, as well as several small lumps of sulphur scattered through 
clayey sand. Description and peculiarities of the mound. 
281. 
The Eocehie Tertiary of Texas east of the Brazos River. 
Proceedings of the Acad, of Kat. Sciences, Philadelphia. Pt. 
I, pp. 89-160. Jan. -Mar., 1895 
iReferenoes to the woirk of iHilgard (Geology of Mississippi) and to that 
of Smith and Johnson (Bull. .No. 43, U. S. Geol. Surv.) east of the Missis- 
sippi, The work of Penrose, Harris and Kennedy in Texas. Comparison 
of the Alabama and Texas sections. Harris’s general seotion of the Eocene 
■Series of the ISouthern 'States. 
Descriptions of the Erio Clays, Payette Sands, Yegua Clays, Marine 
Beds, Lignitic Beds, and Basal Beds or Wills Point Clays, together with 
numerous sections and lists of fossils. iPesumC of History. 
282. Kent, William. 
Art. Gold and Silver. Min. Resonrces of the U. S. 1889-1890. 
(Prodnction of Gold and Silver in Texas, 1889-1890), p. 
49. Washington, 1892. 
From a table showing the ‘Troduotion of gold and silver in the United 
States in 1889 and 1890,” the following statistics are taken: 
State. 
GOLD. 
SILVER. 
Eleventh 
Census. 
U. S. Mint. 
Fine Ounces. 
U. S. Coinage Value. 
Texas 
1889. 
16,828 
1890. 
1889. 
323,438 
1890. 
300,000 
1889. 
. 1418,173 
1890. 
$387,878 
283. Knowlton, P. H. 
Report on a small Oollection of Fossil Plants from Old Port 
Caddo Landing, on Little Cypress Bayon, Harrison Connty, Texas, 
made by T. Wayland Vanghan. 
American Geol., Vol. XYI, pp. 308-309. Minneapolis, Kov,, 
1895. 
iSee No. 405, “Seotion. of the Eocene at Old Port Caddo Landing, Harri- 
son County, Texas,” etc., by T. Wayland Vaughan, 
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