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with vines and flowers in relief on the sides. He used clay from the 
Cheatham beds. 
In 1870 Lafayette Glass, after learning the trade under Welch, set 
up a pottery in the NE. \ SE. \ sec. 29, T. 8 S., R. 15 W. He operated 
here for a year and then removed to Benton and became the pioneer 
potter of that place. While in Dallas County he used clay from the 
Sullenbarger bed. 
Between 1S74 and 1876 E. A. Munn, a brother-in-law of Welch,* ran 
a pottery in the NE. \ SE. \ sec. 12, T. 8 S., R. 16 W. He left there 
and established a pottery at Malvern. He used clay from the Welch 
bed. Fragments about the old kiln show a fine, hard, and close- 
bodied ware. 
DREW COUNTY. 
GENERAL GEOLOGY. 
The surface soils of Drew County consist either of disintegrated 
Tertiary (Eocene) rocks, which underlie the whole county, or of a 
thin coating of gravel of later age on the Tertiary beds. The flood 
plains of some of the streams are of recent alluvial origin, while those 
of others are made of older clays. Nearly all the lands east of Hurri- 
cane Creek are alluvial. Excellent brick clays are abundant about 
Monticello, though some of the surface clays contain a few pebbles, 
and others contain iron nodules. In the western part of the town of 
Monticello about 30 feet of purple and mottled Tertiary clay are 
exposed in gullies and in the railway cut. The purple clays crack in 
drying and, in their present condition, are not available for brick- 
making. These beds are exposed in places for 2 miles west of the 
town of Monticello. 
A well bored by Emil Boechardt at Monticello in 1889, on the 
southwest corner of sec. 35, T. 12 S., R. 7 W., passed through the 
following strata, as reported by Mr. Boechardt: 
Section in well of Em II Boechardt. 
Ft. in. 
1. Loam 4 
i!. Red clay 5 (i 
3. Pipe clay and sand 15 
4. Dark day will) shells 50 
5. Sandstone 6 
6. Dark clay wit h shells 88 6 
159 4 
A sample of clay No. 6 of this section was examined by the Arkan- 
sas Geological Survey. It is a dark, fine clay with a little mica and 
a few fragile fossil shells of Tertiary age. It does not crack on (Irv- 
ing, and if the beds are accessible and could be found without shells 
it would make a good potter's clay and would be available for the 
