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the copper of Archer county than any other man, told me last September that lie had not found any veins there. It is possible, and very probable, that true veins of copper are west of the eastern portion of Haskell county, but not east of it. In this region, the copper is in beds or concretion:, both of these forms being quite to common. It is here, evidently, a sedimentary deposit, the beds being nearly horizontal, or but slightly inclined. I have not seen any of the azoic. igneous rocks in situ in that part of the State, nor are there any known injections or veins of quartz, trap and porphyry in Archer county.

In the northern part of Young county the red copperbearing clay appears, and washed front it, on the surface, are loose masses of ore, containing a small per cent of copper.

In several places, near the road from Graham to Fort Griffin, we saw outcroppings of copper in the clays at and near the base of the hills. This was in Throckmorton county.

In the vicinity of California and Paint creeks, in Haskell county, arc, loose copper ores on the sides and at the bases of the hills. The red copper clays Bear the head of Paint creek give color to its waters and have suggested its name. Still farther west, in Haskell county, the copper ores are more abundant and rail, the specimens from that region yielding bout the salmi per cent. of copper as the best ores of Archer county.

South of Archer, in Jones county, between California creek and the Clear Fork of the Brazos, in several places, I saw the copper clays and loose specimens of ore in ravines and the base or on the sides of hills. As both Haskell and Jones counties are unsettled, and we had no county maps, it is impossible to designate localities.

The copper ore of Northern Texas ought to be smelted there. Coal abounds there, to which will soon be added railroads now in process of construction. Col. Stratton, who lives near the Red River, in the northern part of Clay county, suggests the following plan, which seems to be a good one: Let furnaces be made as cheaply and well as possible, combining all recent improvements; then let so much per ton be given for the ore, grading the price according to quality; then the inhabitants of that section will furnish the ore, for loose specimens will be gathered from the surface of that country by men, women and children,