DALLAS COUNTY. 81 
J. S. Young's well, NE. \ SW. \ sec. 2. Elevation, 460 feet. 
Section in well of J. S. Young. 
Feet. 
Soil and gravel '. ■• 4 
Sandy white pipe clay 40 
Lignite 1 i 
Dark-drab plastic clay - 38 
The lower 38 feet probably represents the Bird clay. 
Mrs. E. A. Rice's place, NW. \ NE. \ sec. 15. White plastic clay 
nearly free from sand outcrops in the bed of a drain. Elevation, 415 
feet. 
In the Tulip-Arkadelphia road, about l\ miles east of O'Neill's 
mill, there is a bed of dark, putty-colored clay from 20 to 30 feet 
thick. Tins clay is very plastic, has little grit, and does not stick to 
the tongue. Elevation, 520 feet. 
Potter's clay of excellent quality is said to have been taken from 
the creek bank below the old milldam at Willow post-office. The 
place is now covered with water. Elevation, 340 feet. 
Potter's clay is reported in section 14, near the southwest corner, 
on a drain running into West Tulip Creek. Elevation, 300 feet. 
It is also reported that a bed from which Bird used to take clay 
occurs in section 29, on a drain running into Cypress Creek. 
Township 7 8., range 17 W.—J. E. Amis's well, NE. \ NW. \ sec. 36. 
Elevation, 360 feet. 
Section in well of J. E. Amis. 
Feet. 
Red sandy clay and gravel 15 
Dark-drab plastic clay 5 
White sandy clay and white sand 20 
This probably reaches the kaolin that outcrops on Little Cypress 
Creek. (See p. 78.) 
White plastic clay is reported in section 22, in the banks of a 
small drain, and in section 35, in the bank of Little Cypress Creek. 
Township 8 S., range 15 W. — A white plastic clay outcrops in the 
bed of Canada Creek, just below the ford of the Ivy-Princeton road. 
Elevation, 250 feet. 
A similar clay outcrops in the road a quarter of a mile south of 
the preceding and 30 feet higher in elevation. 
On the Ivy-Princeton road, about three-fourths of a mile north of 
Princeton, there is an outcrop of very sandy white clay. Elevation, 
260 feet. 
In a gully beside the road in the NE. \ NE. \ sec. 21 there is a bed 
of bluish-white joint clay from 2 to 3 feet thick. This clay has little 
grit and does not cling to the tongue. It passes into sand to the 
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