PART III.
DESCRIPTION OF COUNTIES.

CHAPTER I.
CASS COUNTY.

BY WM. KENNEDY.

PRELIMINARY NOTES ON CASS COUNTY IRON ORE
REGION.

The iron ore region of Cass County extends in a general though somewhat irregular course from the southwest end of the county to the northeast. In the southwest it covers a roughly shaped parallelogram extending along the lower half of the Morris County line southward to the Marion County line, thence eastward along the northern boundary of Marion County for several miles to near the crossing of the Texas and Pacific Railway. From the northeast corner of this parallelogram a long, narrow, irregularly shaped tongue or ridge extends northeasterly to near the town of Atlanta, when it widens out into a rude sort of a triangle, having its northern side somewhat parallel to the course of the Sulphur Fork of the Red River.

The outlines of this ore bearing region are very irregular. Roughly speaking, they may be described as follows:

Beginning at the Marion County line, on the east side of the Ambrosi Douthet headright, the course of the boundary is north to the northeast cor ner of the same headright. From this point it runs northwesterly along the west side of Jim's Bayou to the southeast corner of the Curliss Jarnigan headright. The line then turns southerly to the north side of the Echols headright. From the Echols land it turns northwest through the southern portion of the A. D. Duncan headright to the northeast corner of the Andrew Hampton survey. The line then turns along the east side of the Benjamin Hawkins and Luanna Ward headrights and easterly across the north side of the John Davis headright to the northeast corner. From there southerly to Jim's Bayou; southeasterly along the Bayou to the Rachel Kimborough headright. From the northwest corner of this headright the line trends easterly through the Kimborough, Buffalo Bayou, and C. R. Railway Company's headrights to the Sherman Grosvenor's survey. It then turns northeasterly to the Texas and Pacific Railway near the centre of the William Donahoo survey; thence east to the west side of the Philip Duty headright; northeast