The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter.

  • Cutter, Charles, 1837-1912.
Date:
1875
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Credit: The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    A short distance on the west side of Cove Creek, on the west part of section 19, a heavy vein of calc spar can be traced 400 yards; and adjoining it, especially on the west, a great variety of minerals can be found, amongst which the ores of Titanium are the most interesting. Still further to the west and south, different varieties of granitic and augitic rocks prevail, succeeded on the northwest by the so-called ' Mountain rock,' passing into quartzite and novaculite. On the west side of the ' Cove,' near Powers' stand, very pure specimens of crystals of Titanic acid were found. Half a mile beyond Powers' on the Rockport road, the varieties of quartzite and novaculite rock commence, and continue most of the way to Rockport, where the novaculite rock forms natural abutments on the Ouachita River already mentioned. On the south side of Ouachita River, sections 34, 35 and 36, town- ship 3 south, range 18 west, there is a complete labyrinth of high ridges, composed also of quartzite and novaculite. Toward the north, up Cove Creek, the rock is mostly slate, mixed . with a kind of greenstone trap. On Moses Wood's farm there is a considerable vein of iron pyrites, which traverses a slate near the bed of Cove Creek. [This vein extends to the adjacent farm of Mr. James Henry, who has leased a strip four hundred feet wide (two hundred on each side of the creek) to Dr. Foot, who proposes to find out if there is any nickel or gold in it, as is claimed by many. This ore was mined be- fore the war by an old Welch miner who shipped it to Europe. He never revealed its value to any one. During the war sulphur works were built here, and a small quantity of sulphur made, but it was aban- doned when Little Rock was captured by the Federals.] This vein also contains some graphite and oxide of iron. Its course is 10 to 20 degrees east of south. In the vein there is a kind of green, soft flucan, composed of the debris of green tale and chlorite slate, and a light, porous, ferruginous, cherty rock, mixed with iron pyrites. The vein is about four yards wide. It is probable that the true course of the vein is very nearly north and south, since there is a strong magnetic disturbance, which prevents the needle from traversing, and deflects it in some places at least 45 degrees to the east. When Dr. Conway laid off the line between Moses Wood's and Ashbrook's place he found the deviation so great that he had to make an offset before he could make a true north and south line.