Excerpt from The Phosphate Rocks of Arkansas

The material for this bulletin taken from notes and Observations made by Dr. J. C. Branner while State Geologist of. Arkansas, also from notes made by him while on subsequent trips to the region, and from notes made by Dr. J. F. Newsom while doing private work in the phosphate region. Both of these gentlemen are now in the Faculty of Leland Stanford Junior University.

The bulletin is issued to furnish information and to encourage the development of these phosphate deposits, which promise to be of great extent and richness.

The most important Arkansas deposits now known are in north central Arkansas, lying within parts of the counties of Independence, Stone, Izard, Searcy, Marion, Baxter and Newton. The deposits of this locality are now attracting attention, as two railway companies are building lines into the region. One line is building up White River from Batesville, on the north side of the phosphate area, and the other line is building southeast of Harrison through the south side of the locality. These two railways in providing transportation, will render possible the development of the phosphate deposits, which have here tofore been without transportation.

One company, the Arkansas Phosphate Company, on the line north of Batesville, is now manufacturing acid phosphate. The rock this company is mining works up into a dry, friable acid phosphate. This rock is soft and easily crushed, and in appearance is identical with some of the Tennessee phosphate rocks.

The deposits of this region promise to be of considerable extent and richness, and with the extension of these lines of transportation development of the deposits will doubtless begin at various points at. An early date.

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