DALLAS COUNTY. 83 
Mrs. M. C. Green's well, SE. 1 NW. \ sec. 5. Elevation, 480 feet. 
Section in well of M. C. Green. 
Feet. 
Soil and gravel 8 
White pipe clay 8 
Bluish clay 27 
Black "rock" i 
Lignite 3 
Sandy bluish clay 30 
A. Whitener's well, SE. 1 NW. \ sec. 3. Elevation, 480 feet. 
Section in well of A. Whitener. 
Feet. 
Soil, gravel, and sand 15 
White clay 1 
Lignite 1 
White plastic clay 14 
This lowest clay outcrops in a gully 50 yards west of the house. 
Township 8 S., range 17 W.— D. Ratliffe's well, SE. \ SE. \ sec. 2. 
Elevation, 290 feet. 
Section in well of T. Ratliffe. 
Feet. 
Soil and red clay '. 4 
White plastic clay 30 
Dark plastic clay, with ferruginous sandstone particles 10 
There are scattering leaf impressions in both the light and the 
dark clays. 
Bernard Dellamar's place, SW. | NW. J sec. 14. An exposure of 
12 feet of dark bluish drab clay. This clay is plastic and has little 
grit. Elevation, 310 feet. 
Outcrop of 15 feet of light-blue plastic clay beside the road in the 
NW. I sec. 15. Tins clay weathers very much like the olive-green 
Tertiary marl. It contains somewhat more grit than the clay that 
is most used for ware in this country. Elevation, 320 feet. 
J. R. Porterfiekf s well, SE. \ NE. \ sec. 17. Elevation, 350 feet. 
Section of well of J. R. Porterfield. 
Feet. 
Soil and gravel 17 
Sand 1 
Dark, soft, plastic clay, with lignite flakes and nodules of iron pyrites. 16 
Potters clay is reported near the center of sec. 34; also near the 
northeast corner of sec. 27 arid in the SE. \ of sec. 35. 
A well in the NW. \ NW. \ sec. 36 passes through 75 feet of sand 
with lumps of plastic clay and ends in white sandy clay similar to 
that overlying the lignite bed in this region. Elevation, 280 feet. 
These lumps of clay are at many places embedded in the sandy strata, 
and have been reported in several wells. 
