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GEOLOGY AND MINP:RAL RESOURCES OF MISSISSIPPI. 
The following analyses of the marls of the State are taken from Hilgard's Geology and 
Agriculture of Mississippi: 
Analyses of Mississippi marls. 
[By Dr. E. W. Hilgard.] 
Clarke 
County. 
Garlands 
Creek. 
Hinds County. 
Warren 
County. 
Rankin 
County. 
Carroll 
County. 
Jackson. 
Byram. 
Vicksburg. 
Dr. Quin's. 
Shongalo. 
45.881 
1.717 
.465 
14.785 
2.476 
.403 
13.020 
7.751 
.327 
.566 
12.492 
37.400 
. 445 
.208 
28.821 
1.407 
12.308 
.611 
.179 
43. 932 
1.688 
20.967 
.753 
.283 
37. 543 
2.082 
13. 074 
.265 
.031 
46. 222 
.614 
. 067 
2. 722 
Trace. 
.058 
34. 754 
2. 050 
55 705 
Potash 
1 . 604 
045 
. 166 
1.630 
Brown oxide of manganese 
5. 133 
.256 
2. 696 
.224 
1.266 
34.720 
2.396 
4. 722 
. 135 
34. 347 
23. 084 
3. 246 
30.838 
2. 657 
. 129 
Organic matter and water 
7.012 
09.883 
100.000 
100.020 
99.980 
. 99.857 
100. 638 
Insoluble matter 
Potash 
Soda 
Lime 
Magnesia 
Brown oxide of manganese 
Peroxide of iron 
Alumina 
Phosphoric acid 
Sulphuric acid 
Carbonic acid 
Organic matter and water. 
Marion County. 
Barnes. 
Burnetts 
Bluff. 
77. 438 
83.691 
.709 
.827 
.101 
. 268 
4.800 
.793 
1.248 
1.053 
.316 
. 223 
2.989 
4.394 
6. 449 
8. 347 
.111 
. 1 is 
Trace. 
. 022 
3. 372 
2.664 

100. 197 
99. 766 
Franklin 
County. 
( a sady. 
49. 475 
1.242 
.152 
13. 190 
1.825 
.266 
5. 538 
12.587 
.132 
.033 
9.555 
5.876 
Lowndes 
County. 
Waver 
ley. 
18. 702 
.204 
.190 
1.351 
.723 
5.598 
.328 
.013 
.472 
2.303 
99.871 
99..VS1 
Tippah County. 
Ripley. 
Wil- 
hilite's 
62. mi 
. 730 
.272 
7. 952 
1.560 
.160 
11.849 
5.865 
73.410 
. 702 
6.315 
.886 
. 050 
7.055 
5.SSS 
9.905 
101.000 
5. 640 
99.992 
Chicka- 
saw 
County; 
Houston. 
MINERAL WATERS. 
Much attention has been paid to the numerous sulphur, chalybeate, and lithia waters of 
the State. Many of these have a wide reputation as medicinal waters. The water tiom 
Stafford Spring, near Vossburg, Jasper County, is used on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad 
dining cars, and is shipped to all parts of the United States. Other springs and wells, which 
are visited yearly by numerous health seekers and are reported as shipping water for the yeal 
1904, are Arundel Lithia Springs, near Meridian, Lauderdale County; Browns Wells, 
Copiah County; Castalian Springs, near Duranl . Holme-, County. Raw les Spring, near Hat] 
tiesburg, Petty County; and Tallaha Springs, near Charleston. Tallahatchie County. 
