GEOLOGY BETWEEN THE APALACHICOLA AND OCK- 
LOCKNEE RIVERS IN FLORIDA. 
E. H. SELL ARDS AND H. GUNTER.* 
LOCATION, AREA AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES. 
H. GUNTER. 
The area to which this report relates embraces the three coun- 
ties of Gadsden, Liberty and Franklin lying between the Ocklock- 
nee and Apalachicola rivers and extending from the Florida-Geor- 
gia state line to the Gulf of Mexico. The area of Gadsden county 
is approximately 500 square miles, or 320,000 acres; that of Lib- 
erty, 725 square miles, or 464,000 acres; and that of Franklin, 731 
square miles, or 467,240 acres, making a total area of 1,956 square 
miles, or 1,251,240 acres. 
Gadsden county is one of the leading agricultural counties of 
the. State. In 1903 the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture made a soil survey of this county and accompanying 
this report was a map indicating the different soils and their loca- 
tion. The results of this survey show that the soils of this county 
are well adapted to the growing of a great diversity of staple farm 
products. The production of the shade-grown leaf tobacco for 
cigar wrapper purposes is of first commercial importance, while 
sugar cane, corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts rank next and are 
grown on a large scale. 
The interior of the county, except where cut into by streams, 
forms a plateau, the top of which lies from 250 to a little more 
than 300 feet above sea. Numerous dear-water streams are found 
in this county, which afford irrigation and some, water power. 
These streams cut very deeply, particularly those in the western 
portion of the county, tributary to the Apalachicola river, causing 
a very broken and rugged topography. 
Liberty county has many streams, and those tributary to the 
Apalachicola river cut across the bluff and into the plateau mak- 
* The field work on this report has been done jointly by the authors. The 
text has been prepared as indicated under the authors’ names. 
