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same place; Messrs. Roberts and Moore, of Bremond; (Esquire Moore traveled with us for several days and gave us much valuable information;) Senator W. D. Wood and Col. J. W. Durant, of Leon county; Dr. Hunter and Col. Word, or Palestine; Capt. James Eastland, of Anderson county; Senator J. E. Dillard, Mr. T. L. Philleo, Esquire Ragsdale and Dr. Yoakum. of Cherokee county; Senator W. H. Swift and Mr. R. W. McLain, of Nacogdoches county; Senator Web. Flanagan, of Rusk county; Mr. Wm. Anderson and Geo. A. Kelley, of Jefferson; Hon. J. W. Lane, Mr. Dodge, Mr. J. 0. Crutchfield and Ammon Burr, of Dallas; Mr. Sam. Long and Col. Wilkins, of Lamar; Senator II. D. Allison and Dr. G. A. Foote, of Mc-Kinney; Senator Trollinger, of Grayson; Messrs. LaWrance, Cetti and Brewer, of Fort Worth; Capt. A. B. Gant, of Weatherford; Colonels Stratton and Whaley, of Clay county; Messrs. Graham and Medlan, of Young county; Stribbling & Co., Fort Griffin; Judge Brown, of Brownwood; Dr. C. S. Smith, Mr. Wells and Mr. Holden, of Llano county.
IRON ORES OF THE TERRITORY
These abound in Eastern and Central Texas; also in the northwest part of Grayson county and the upper cross-timbers.
ORES OF ROBERTSON AMD MILAM COUNTIES.
About five miles east of Calvert, in the bed of Mud Creek, and in the hills in its vicinity, on lands belonging to the Hon. Mr. Barziza, and also on property belonging to Messrs. Wood & Glass. These ores are limonites, or brown oxide of iron. Some are of the honeycomb variety, valued by iron manufacturers for being easily smelted. These ores appear to be in large beds and sufficiently abundant for the manufacture of iron. Similar ores abound on the tops of hills and hillsides on the west side of the Brazos river, in Milam county, and opposite the Herndon coal-bed in Robertson county. The County Surveyor of Milam county told us that he had sent specimens of these iron ores to a chemist in Nashville, Tennessee, Who reported silty-five per cent. of metallic iron. Judging from specimens, it is probable that froth forty-five to fifty per cent of metallic iron would be their average yield from the furnace.