228 THE (LAYS OF ARKANSAS. 
In the W. \ N. \ NE. | NW. 1 sec. 8, T. 5 X., R. 8 W., a well du 
by Mr. Parker gives the following: 
Section in Parker's well. 
Feet. 
Yellow loam 6 
White joint clay : - 12 
Red wmdy joint clay with pebbles 35 
53 
W. A. Ballon has a well at Beebe 20 feet deep, which shows 
Sal ion in Ballon's well. 
Feet. 
Yellow clay 3 
Bluish clay 17 
20 
Part of the upper division of the lower bed is dug and mixed with 
3 feet of yellow clay for brick clay, and the articles so made burn 
better and are much harder than those made from the yellow T brick 
earth alone. 
That part of White County lying east of the St. Louis, Iron Moun- 
tain and Southern Railway has not been examined except at West 
Point. The general geology of the region, however, is inferred to be 
very nearly identical with that of Lonoke and Prairie counties. 
Good brick clays are likely to be found throughout most of the eastern 
part of White County. In the wet lands or slashes the limonite buck- 
shot is found in the clays a short distance below the surface, and, as 
is well known, these nodules injure clays more or less for brickmaking 
purposes. The best brick clays of White County are found on the 
higher lands. 
CLAY INDUSTRY. 
The upper yellow clays are made into bricks at Beebe, Searcy, and 
Judsonia, and a mixture of the yellow and upper portion of the bluish 
clay is also used. The blue clay beneath was formerly also used by 
Mr. C. Essig at Beebe for the manufacture of drain tiles. The Beebe 
clay makes hard, solid bricks, but their color is not satisfactory and 
they can not therefore be used for facing and other purposes where 
ornamental or fine bricks are required. Their color when properly 
burned is a light gray, sometimes running into a dark cream, but they 
are not of a uniform shade. These bricks are well adapted for use in 
foundations where a sound, hard brick is required without regard to 
its roughness of appearance or poor color. 
When the brownish-yellow upper bed is used alone the clay is 
worked in a very soft condition and in drying shrinks considerably 
and shows a tendency to warp. A mixture of the two clays forms a 
brick which, although coarse, is of good quality, and is less liable to 
