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REPORT OF MR. W. KENNEDY.

AUSTIN, TEXAS, January 1, 1892.

Mr. E. T. Dumble, State Geologist:

DEAR SIR —The work assigned to me for the season of 1891, as detailed in your letter of April 25th, 1891, is as follows: "The making of a detailed section across the post-Cretaceous deposits, from Terrell, in Kaufman county, via Mineola, Tyler, Lufkin, Corrigan and Colmesneil, to the Gulf."

In accordance with these instructions I left Austin on the 14th day of May for Terrell, and on arrival there began work as soon as the necessary outfit could be gathered.

On leaving Terrell the party consisted of myself, Mr. J. B. Walker, Assistant Geologist, and W. S. Teague, as driver and cook; and on our arrival at Mineola Mr. Walker returned to Austin, preparatory to making a line of sections from Cameron southward, and Teague was discharged at his own request.

While in Mineola I visited and examined the Alba Coal Mining Company's property, and afterwards proceeded to Marshall to dispose of an outfit left there at the close of last season's work.

The driver's place was filled by W. M. Bankston, and I then proceeded to Tyler. While there I was joined by Mr. Frank Fitch, as a volunteer. We then went south to Ashcraft, where Mr. Fitch left and returned home, and I proceeded alone to Rusk. At Rusk, finding it necessary, to have another man, I engaged S. A. Adams as a general assistant, and the party moved southward, without any serious difficulties, to the coast.

On approaching the completion of the section, I received your letter of August 7th, containing instructions to resume county work in Houston, Leon and Robertson counties, as soon as the line of sections was completed. Accordingly, as soon as we reached Beaumont and found it impossible to take the outfit any further south, it was turned across country to Crockett, and I went on alone to Sabine Pass.

The outfit arrived in Crockett on the 2d of October, and the work of surveying that county was commenced and carried on until about the end of November, and as the season was then too far advanced for out of door work, the party was disbanded and the outfit stored preparatory to resuming work in Leon county during the coming season.

While in Houston county the success of the work was greatly facilitated and benefited by the kindly assistance and advice of Senator Page and County Surveyor Broxon, the latter gentleman having accompanied me for a week at a time, thereby enabling me to locate places with much more accuracy than could otherwise have been done.