Little Tarkeo creek traverses Holt county, and enters the Missouri at the S. E. extremity of the same. It is bounded on the E. by the Wabash, and drained by the Vermilion river. Extensive mines of coal and iron ore are found. On the border of a prairie in Holt township, there is a conical mound, which is 60 feet high, and about 600 yards in circuit at the base. The county is intersected by the Indiana and Illinois Central railroad unfinished.
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