.MTAzMw.NjkyMzQ
148
McClellan Creek. Answer to 2nd Question. -- The Cottonwood predominates on either steam, with a slight growth of Hackberry intermixed, only a slight fringe of timber was found as visible on either stream, except in places on the North Fork, where a large aggregation of young Cottonwood could be seen, as at the mouth of Sulphur Creek, but no large amount of timer was observed on either Creek; the North Fork however having the largest amount
Answer to 3rd Question. -- The Sweetwater affords the greatest abundance in its valley, it being of considerable extent and of good soil and I should judge in season furnishing most excellent pasturage, grass in the valley of the North Fork was found to be wiry and coarse as a rule, but in some places quite abundant. The quantity and quality of greas on McClellan Creek is simply "nil". The ridges lying between the streams names, in many places afforded good grass, but as a rule interspersed with the "Scrub" or 'Thin Oak" as it is euphoncously termed.
Answer to 4th Question. -- About six miles East of Sulphur Springs or the forks of McClellan Creek, a large ridge of stone was observed, on the South side of the Creek, near the confluence of a small stream, running in from the Southwest, cannot judge as to its availability for building purposes, but its reddy or reddish appearance to me would indicate one of the necessary qualities i. e. hardness. In my judgment the soil in the valley of the Sweetwater could be made available for adobie making and that rock formations could be found well up, or West, on the same stream.
Answer to 5th Question. -- Either stream is bordered by sand belts, in some places narrow and others extending across from stream to stream. Rolling prairie is found on the south of McClellan and on the Northside of the North Fork, east of the mouth of Sweetwater.
Answer to 6th Question. -- no coal or evidence of it visible, other than the presence of an oily substance observed in the water of some of the small streams, putting into McClellan Creek from the South, notably the one mentioned as debouching into the McClellan near the stone or rock formation, mentioned above, which might possibly be an evidence of the presence of petroleum in the region named.
Answer to 7th Question. -- From report the South fork of McClellan affords some considerable timber, as does likewise a small stream observed as putting into the North Fork, just West of the mouth of McClellan Creek -- from the North no considerable, or rather large body of timber for permanent use was observed on any of the streams named including the Washita West of the 100 meridian.