With tin near the top of the list of strategic metals, the main purpose of this project was to determine:

The geographic distribution of tin in Mason County.
The source of the tin.
The amount of placer and/or lode tin present per unit volume of sand or vein.
Secondary purposes were to determine what minerals, if any, occurred with the tin, what minerals occurred in the metamorphics rimming the granite, and to search for deposits of magnesite.

Bogs from which peat is being produced commercially in Lee County, Texas, have stimulated, in recent months, the search for more such bogs in various parts of the State. These new peat bogs have served to show the possibilities of the industry; also, they have revealed in part the geological conditions most necessary for the deposition and accumulation of peat.