CLEVELAND COUNTY 55 
The work in Cleveland County was done by Prof. G. D. Harris, 
who gives the following resume of the geology of the lowest beds in 
the northwestern section : a 
A small portion of the northwestern quarter of this county is doubtless underlain by 
lignitic deposits. Records of well borings at Pinchback's mills, according to Mr. 
J. G. Simmes, of New Edinburg, show no traces of molluscan remains. The materials 
commonly passed through are sands and dark lignitic clay. In the vicinity of 
Cross Roads Church, about 4| miles northwest of Kingsland, fossils belonging to the 
Jackson horizon were found in the form of casts and impressions in concretionary fer- 
ruginous sandstone. Wells near Kingsland and farther west are said to pass through 
25 or 30 feet of sandy clay of a light-yellowish color, and then to encounter bluish 
clay or lignite. The bidish clay at some places continues for 30 feet or more, when 
it gives way to soft and sandy material that furnishes water in abundance. 
The higher beds that cover all the central part of the county belong 
to the middle or Claiborne division of the Eocene (Tertiary), and are 
similar in the main to the beds of Calhoun and Union counties. 
Below is given the record of a well on the land of J. B. Williams in 
the SW. \ SW. \ sec. 1, T. 9 S., R. 11 W. 
Record of well on land of J. B. Williams. 
Feet. 
Soil and sands 20 
Joint clay 20 
Clay with gypsum 10 
Shells 10 
Leaves 5 
Dark-blue earth 12 
Coarse white sand 4 
On Mount Elba, just south of Bridges Bluff on Saline River, 
3^ miles south of Toledo, the following section is exposed: 
Section at Mount Elba. 
Feet. 
Pebbly dark soil 2 
Yellowish clayey sand 7 
White chert pebbles 7 
Ijight lignitic clay 3 
Concealed to the water 15 
Several other sections reported by Professor Harris in Cleveland 
County contain clays, but it is not clear whether they are valuable. 
Bed No. 4 in the following section reported by him appears to be one 
of promise. The locality is 5 miles southwest of New Edinburg, on 
the Moro Bay-Pine Bluff road. 
Section near New Edinburg. 
Ft. in. 
Soil, sand, and a few pebbles 2 
Light, evenly laminated blue-gray clay 4 
Light-gray micaceous clay 
Leaf -bearing blu ish-gray clay 8 
a Ann. Rept. Geol. Survey Arkansas for 1892, vol. 2, p. 57. 
