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found on nearly every farm in this central region. While most 
of these earth deposits will prove of small value, yet it will be 
some time before they are exhausted ; and when this result is 
reached the deposits of gypsum rock will still make central 
Kansas an important plaster center. 
Gypsum Deposits between Gypsum City and Medicine Lodge. 
PEABODY AND ANNELLY DEPOSITS. 
In 1885 the Peerless Cement Plaster Company built a mill on 
the farm of Mr. Dean, five miles west of Peabody. The mill 
was 1n operation about two years and then abandoned and the 
machinery sold. The rock was hauled from Liberty creek, one 
and one-half miles north of the mill, from section 34, East Creek 
township. There were 2 feet of good gypsum covered by 30 
feet of dirt and impure rock, and underlaid by clay. The prod- 
uct is said to have been of high grade and was used through- 
out the neighborhood. A few years ago gypsum earth was 
discovered in this same area, covering fifteen acres on the Dean 
and Brown farms, with a maximum thickness of 7 feet. Gyp- 
sum outcrops along Liberty creek at a number of places. There 
was a mill at Furley, in northeast corner of Sedgwick county, 
which used gypsum rock found in that locality. At Annelly, 
in the southeastern part of Harvey county, gypsum of good 
quality was found in the wells at a depth of 30 feet, and the 
rock outcrops on Gypsum creek just south. 
BURNS DEPOSIT. 
Seven and a half miles southwest of Burns, close to Davis 
creek, in Butler county, Mr. Gottlieb Heller has opened a gyp- 
sum earth deposit which will average 6 feet thick over about 
two acres of land, and a lesser thickness over a much larger 
area beyond. The deposit is covered by a thin layer of soil, 
varying from 1 inch to 2 feet in thickness. Where Davis creek 
cuts through the gypsum the deposit is about 9 feet, and has a 
jointed structure, breaking out in large blocks. No gypsum 
rock is found in the region above this gypsum earth deposit, 
nor is any reported from the wells in that vicinity, so that as 
