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And well unfinished and being dug at the time of our visit.. No. 3 abounds in fern leaves and calamites in a fine state of preservation (carboniferous). No. 4 has small particles of coal. No. 5 contains marks of roots and stumps, six or more inches in diameter. A large portion of the ferns are of the same species as those found in Young county.

We were told at Henrietta that two men had recently found a bed of coal several. feet thick about five miles distant from the town, but they would not tell where, because they wished to buy the land. Other localities of coal in Clay county were also reported.

In the southwest corner of this county, on Sandy creek, about four miles from Judge Marlett's, a coal bed extends along the creek about three hundred feet. At this place we obtained fine specimens of calamites and ferns. The outcroppings of the coal here are of an inferior quality, but good coal may abound farther into the side of the hill, at the base of which lies the coal bed.

About a mile up the creek, and high up in the hillside, is another coal bed of similar character.

On Horne creek, nearly eighteen miles southwest of Camp Colorado, is a coal bed, which is worked by a Mr. Waldrup, who sells coal to the blacksmiths.

Near the Colorado river, about midway of the southern boundary of the county, is a coal bed about four feet thick, which is said to outcrop near the base of a hill, and also on the opposite side of the same hill. At a blacksmith shop in Brownwood, Brown county, I saw specimens of this coal.

There is also said to be a coal bed immediately south of Santa Anna Mountain, and another bed at Blackwell's ranche, on the line between Coleman and Brown counties.

On Little Bull creek, in Coleman county, is a bed of coal, which is said to be six to eight feet thick, from whence