The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-10-04
LABORATORY, DEL VALEE,

LABORATORY, DEL VALLE,
Near Austin, Texas, Sept. 40, 1879. j
Permit me to call attention to the
recent discovery Of the immense belt
Hor sstratasof hydraulic minerals, in the
most perfect and mature condition,
equal in quality, perhaps, to any in this
or any other country, sufficient to sup
IIply the whole Of the United States for
Hundreds Of years to come, ifneedlbe.
These immense strata exist onthe banks
of the Colorado river, at Del Valle,
Travis county, about eight miles from
the city of Austin.
| The strata, or belt, varies from fifty
to ninety feet thick. The top strata
and about two feet below the surface
of the ground is what is generally
termed "French tile or mature and
perfect hydraulic limestone, which, on
being burnt at a low pitch of heat, and
ground into powder, produces "a lIy-
i1ranlic cement equal in quality for all
purposes to that of the best English
! Portland cement. This strata is from
six to eight feet thick. and about forty
to sixty feet wide; underneath exists,
about from forty to fifty feet thick,
and above water level, stronger by
drarilic limestone, which, when burnt
at low pitch of heat and ground
into powder, produces a cement which
immediately solidifies in water, and of
ia similar quality, though different in
,color, to that of the Rosendale cement.
Owing to the very mature and per
fleet condition of the lower strata, it
can be moulded or pressed into any ar
ticle for paving, building, roofing, sew
efing and all other necessities eof acity
sanitary and city building character.
Itnever cracks in drying or burning,
and ON leaving the furnace, although
burnt at moderate low heat, it is suf-
ficiently hard for any purpose, and be-
ing of ono solid hydraulic mass it is
ever increasing in hardness, quality,
beauty and valne with age and with
change of temperature. The most
beautiful coarse pottery can be made
of this material, or what iSIbest known
as old Roman stone pottery, and sewer
tubes of the very highest order and
quality. All of which of the before
named articles can be manufactured
here equally as cheap as the most or
binary common building brick, and for
less than one-half the cost of common
gordinary cut and dressed stone.
HYDRAULIC BUILDING LIME, oRBUILDISG
| CEMENT.
Hydraulic cement of the very high
est order and quality cantbe manllfac-
Istnred here from these great inexhansti-
bile mines and shipped to each and
every fast growing city in the State,
and, as far asiraiiway would admit of,
equally as cheap or cheaper than the
most ordinary bnildingiime.. The old
Roman or solid acknowledgements and
wagon road fpavements, the rongher
and foiiler the weather, the harder,
cleaner andmoreiimperisbable theroad,
than which no pavement has ever been
liitchtrAt sSsNii W SHue53 snSniuSo suSSSS-
sing that important quality, atIpresent
amysteryto science, powerful earbonic
acid and malaria absorbing properties (;
thereby preventing malarial disease,
| yellow fever, sickness and death arising
I.therefrom.
Itlisof too lengthy asnbjecttolful
and infinitely enter into here at pres
ent, relative toithe life preserving quail
ties of this beautiful unknown stone;
suffice tito say, that should such in
formation be worthy yonr sconsidera-
ttion, we should take pleasure in. giving
Iconr upward sof forty years practical
experience, and saying a few words on
1.-The real and true cause of smalafial dis
case; and the safe, cheap, broad, lprac-
teal and permanent preventive and
remedy against that terrible and fear
lful Understanding monster, yellow fe-
liver. I4ABoRAToRIAH.