OUACHITA COUNTY. 145 
The sections exposed in Seely Mountain and in Parkers Hill, south 
of Lester, on the road to Camden, show very sandy beds, with no 
available pottery clays. These clays appear to lie at a lower level, 
and to wind in and out about the hills toward their bases. 
In the city of Camden there is a small pockety bed of pottery clay, 
in places 3 feet thick, on the west side of the Missouri Pacific Railway, 
on California street. 
The Arkansas Company, an organization with an office at Lester, 
Ark., owns a large part of the lignite and clay lands between the Cam- 
den branch of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and 
Ouachita River in T. 12 S., R. 18 W. This company put down a deep 
well at the center of sec. 12 of that township and range. Dr. A. S. 
Garnett, of Hot Springs, Ark., kindly furnished a copy of the record 
of this well, which shows the various clay beds and their thicknesses. 
Record of well at the center of sec. 12, T. 12 S., R. 18 W. 
Feet. 
Common clay 25 
Blue fire clay •. 15 
Coal (lignite) 5 
Fire clay 15 
Quicksand 60 
Decomposed clay 5 
Sand 30 
Hard clay . 30 
Coal (lignite) 5 
Hard clay 15 
Sandy clay 110 
Coal (lignite) 5 
Sand and clay 50 
Quicksand 100 
Sand and clay 75 
Hard clay 15 
Coal (lignite) 10 
Clay and sand 50 
Coal (lignite) 2 
Quicksand 175 
Rock and sand 55 
Total depth of well 852 
From what has been said of the exposures known, it will be seen 
that pottery clays are to be looked for in the lower portions of the lulls 
that skirt the Ouachita Valley. The steepness of these hills on the 
west side of the river gives rise to a great number of natural exposures 
of the clay beds, but the same beds may confidently be looked for on 
the east side of the river and in the gentler slopes of that side of the 
valley, though they are there farther from the stream. 
It is noticeable also that good clays are at some places associated 
with the Tertiary coals or lignites of this region. Thus the lignite, 
which usually attracts attention more readily than clays, serves to 
a certain extent as a guide in searching for valuable clays. 
48136— Bull. 351—08 io 
