Geology and Underground Waters of Northeastern Texas (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Geology and Underground Waters of Northeastern Texas The area considered in this report embraces square miles in the extreme northeast part of Texas, comprising the counties of Bowie, Red River, Lamar, Delta, Hopkins, Franklin, Titus, Morris, Camp, and Cass. The mean annual rainfall of the region is about 48 inches, ranging from 45 inches in the west to a little more than 50 inches along the Arkansas State line. The mean annual temperature is from 64° to 65° F. The district is traversed from east to west by three lines of railroads, the Texas Pacific (sherman branch), the St. Louis. Southwestern, and the Missouri, Kansas Texas. The Marshall branch of the Texas Pacific crosses the eastern part of the region and the Texas Midland, the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe, and the St. Louis San Francisco all have their termini at Paris in the north western part of the region. The rich soil of the black prairie lands early attracted settlers. According to the census of 1910 the population of the 10 counties named was or an average of to the square mile. The western part of the region is the most thickly settled, the two black land counties, Lamar and Delta, leading, with an average of and per square mile, respectively. The average for the timber belt counties is Hopkins and Camp leading with and 44, respectively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.