Ten surface soils in the vicinity of Kashima Iron Works of Sumitomo Metal Industrial Company were collected on August 24, 1974. Iron, manganese, cadmium, zinc, lead, copper, chromium, and nickel in these soils were analyzed. In total soil analysis, marked difference in heavy metal contents was not observed between the soils near the iron works and those far from them, since the soils near the iron works had very coarse texture and those far from them had finer texture, and the finer soil particles would have more heavy metals than the coarser ones. Therefore, in such a case, comparison of heavy metal content of soils must be done on the soil particles with nearly the same diameters. Fractionation of soil particles was done with nonmetal sieves. Fractions of 20.5, 0.50.2, 0.20.1, 0.10.07, 0.070.05 and <0.05 mm were obtained. Heavy metal contents were increased from the fraction finer than 0.1 or 0.07 mm. By the comparison of the finer fractions, it seemed that the soils near the iron works contained greater amounts of iron, manganese, cadmium, zinc, lead, chromium and nickel. Therefore, the soils near the iron works seemed to be polluted by these heavy metals. The copper contents were nearly the same irrespective of the distance from the iron works. The heavy metals seemed to be mainly discharged from Kashima Iron Works of Sumitomo Metal Industrial Company.