KANSAS.
Various
kinds of agate and chalcedony are found in the gravel beds of the Big
Blue River and its branches, on the hillsides near the river in drift,
and also on the high prairie. A small production is reported by Mr.
Samuel Forter, of Marysville, Kans. •
MONTANA.
Considerable
quantities of moss agate, mocha stone, and various other agates were
found in eastern Montana in the gravel beds along Yellowstone River.
The moss agate is found in irregular pieces from 1 ounce to 10 pounds
in weight, each piece being individually valued according to its
peculiar markings. A set of cut and polished moss agates was sent to
the Survey by the Hanson-Kohn Jewelry Co. (now the Kohn Jewelry Co.),
of Billings, Mont. Among the best of these were 12 stones, as follows:
1.
Size, 21 by 11 millimeters. Resembles a landscape with a few
scattered trees; rolling ground, with small hills. Highly translucent
chalcedony; brownish-black markings. Mounted as brooch in gold.
2.
Size, 28 by 15 millimeters. Looks like woods along shore of river or
lake— brush and trees 1-5 millimeters high in perfect likenesses; some
in distance. Agate, highly translucent, slightly banded with
bluish-gray and brownish-black markings.
3.
Size, 32 by 21 millimeters. Shows a landscape with a grove of tall
trees like Lombardy poplars; high on right, low like edge of clearing
on left. Trees in haze in distance. Brush from 1 millimeter to trees 10
millimeters high; ground line under trees sharp, with some brush.
Bluish-gray, slightly banded chalcedony; the trees black; ground
brownish black to black.
4.
Size, 48 by 21 millimeters. Resembles thicket of small brush and woods,
passing into brushy and grassy slope to shore of river or lake on
right. Bunch of leaves or tree branches overhanging water on right.
Tallest trees, 8 millimeters. Trees in distant haze. Black and brownish
markings in highly translucent bluish-gray chalcedony, showing faint
bands.
5.
Size, 42 by 32 millimeters. Shows brownish-black buffalo head; 28
millimeters sweep across horns, 20 millimeters high; not perfect but
easily recognizable. Mounted as fob stone.
6.
Size, 50 by 20 millimeters. Two hills, slopes covered with brush of
uniform height, 1J millimeters high. Gully between hills nearly bare of
brush. Two small bunches of tree branches overhanging from right
corner. Other branches in haze in distance in back. Sky otherwise
clear. All markings brown on translucent, bluish-gray chalcedony. No
banding.
7.
Size, 33 by 20 millimeters. Shows resemblance to sand dune with wide
spreading tree on top. Tops of trees appear over hill. Dark-brown
color on translucent bluish-gray chalcedony. No banding.
8.
Size, 26 by 13 millimeters. Group of ferns, about seven distinct
plants, 7-10 millimeter high and 2-3 millimeters wide. Several
varieties of structure, evenly arranged. Black to dark brown on
translucent bluish-gray chalcedony. No banding.
9.
Size, 34 by 19 millimeters. Group of black to dark-brown radiating fern
leaves in clear, transparent, light bluish-gray chalcedony. No banding.
Three main arms of fern 120° apart, with smaller leaves in between.
10.
Size, 33 by 16 millimeters. Resembles a water scene, with clear
bluish-gray sky. The water edge marked by wide curving brownish band,
with several groups of black trees showing reflection in water. Two
small patches of sedge in foreground. Transparent, bluish-gray
chalcedony. No banding.
11.
Size, 43 by 22 millimeters. "Lonesome pine." A single pine tree,
the lower part of trunk clear, the upper brushy and spreading into
three distinct layers, black, against faintly banded translucent,
bluish-gray chalcedony. The faint banding gives a good cloud effect.
Foreground, clear, brown, also faintly banded. A small irregularly
shaped dark-brown flaw, to the left and slightly above horizon,
somewhat mars an otherwise perfect picture.
12.
Size, 32 by 24 millimeters. Water scene. Group of islands, with trees,
black to dark brown, the largest 7 millimeters high and 5 millimeters
wide. Many small
