SALINE COUNTY. 195 
COMPACT AND PISOLITIC KAOLIN. 
Kaolin exists in sees. 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 26, T. 2 S., R. 
14 W., and probably in other places. The deposits in sec. 16 seem 
to be extensive, for kaolin is found here and there almost all over 
that section. In the SE. 1 \ SE. \ sec. 16, T. 2 S., R. 14 W., it is 
exposed on the eastern side of a ridge, where it rests on syenite. 
This deposit has never been bored through and its thickness is 
unknown. Messrs. Nethercut, the proprietors, have quarried it on 
a small scale for building material. The coarser matter is used for 
building the outsides of chimneys and the finer is employed for 
lining flues and hearths. In carrying on these quarrying operations 
the material was penetrated to a depth of 15 feet near the upper 
edge of the deposit, but the kaolin had not been passed through. 
In the NE. \ SW. \ sec. 16, 80 or 100 yards west of Mr. Sol. Neth- 
ercut 's house, an excavation 8 feet in diameter and 15 feet deep was 
made for the purpose of testing the thickness of the kaolin, but the 
undertaking was abandoned before the bed was cut through. At 
Mr. Sol. Nethercut 's house, near the northwest corner of the NW. J 
SE. I sec. 16, a well 18 feet deep shows a face of 10 feet of kaolin 
in the bottom of the well. This does not indicate the thickness of 
the deposit at this place, as the digging was stopped before the 
kaolin was penetrated. 
Kaolin also overlies the syenite at many places in theSW. | SE. £ 
sec. 16, T. 2 N., R. 14 W. 
On the north side of the NE. J sec. 16 there is a large deposit of 
kaolin which extends across the line into sec. 9. This kaolin varies 
somewhat in appearance in different positions. That on the eastern 
side of the SE. J SE. J sec. 16 is of two kinds. One bed is white 
or grayish white, having small specks and streaks of a gray material 
scattered through the white ground and occasional patches of iron 
stain. The other contains fewer gray patches, but is of a pale pink- 
ish or brownish tint. The pink- tinted kaolin generally overlies the 
gray mottled material. 
The deposits on the bank of the stream in the NE. J SW. \ sec. 16, 
as well as those in the diggings and wells in this division of the land 
section, have generally a white, chalky appearance. It does not show 
so much iron staining or gray specks as the material found in the 
SK. 1 SE. j. sec. 16. 
The deposit found in the NE. \ sec. 16 and the SE. \ sec. 9 is a 
White and gray streaked material very similar to the lower gray- 
streaked bed in the SE. \ SE. \ sec. 16. 
