The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

Soioreu inarOiei that Tor building purposes
can not be surpassed in beauty. All these
stones are susceptible Of the highest finish
and polish, and it is a pride to
our new capitol, shortly to be erected. will
be entirely Of Texas stone. In this build
ing, IN accordance with suggestion made by
the HERALD, every organized county in the
state will have q stone bearing its name.
All through northern, western and north
western Texas there.abounds limestone, of
a quality excellent for
LIME,
and the bulk of this product used in the
state for building purposes is madea at home.
There are many impure lin, r'y; that
answer well for hydraulic Gem A. and in
Williamson county suporio. ..irlc is
claimed to exist for this purpose O. &c ex-
tensiye lime works are found al ,dS''r and
most of the cities and towns them
Texas draw their supplies thence.
We have saved to the last what, in our
opinion, is the MOST important mineral inter
est we have We refer to our
IRON.
This ore is to be found mostly in eastern
Texas, though deposits exist in other por-
tons of the state. Every one in this c6un-
try is familiar with the great iron range OF
Missouri, including the famed Iron Noun
tain, for which even railroad has been
named, This range Of hills, with its count
less millions of tons of iron, passes through
that state, across its boundary line, into
and through the kansGS and Arkansas re-
gion until it strikes the Texas border, on
thesIed river, and thence ON through the
eastern tier OF counties, Bowie, Casss, Har-
rison, Marion, Titus, Franklin, Morris, Up
shur, Gregg, Rusk, Smith, Cherokee, An
gelina, Anderson, Houston, Nacogdochcs,
San AuguStin, Jasper, Newton, Hardin, and
Jefferson to the gulf coast. All through
these, this iron ore here and there crops out
on the surface, not the mere ordinary and
comparatively worthless surface groupings,
but of n quality excellent in itself. This
interest has been but little developed and
explored, but in every one of the counties
just named, where any effort of work or
examination has been made, the ore has
been discovered in such masses as to be
wonderful in the extreme. Specimens from
all along its vast range, from the surface
and from the depths OF the earth, have been
subjected to tests and examination by ex-
perts in this country and in Europe, and it
has been ascertainCd to be almost pure iron
and of that quality identical with the
famous gray ore of England. Wherever il
has been used either the ore in the furnaces
or the metal in the fOundries and mills. if
has been disclosed to he superior
to any other. Just prior TO our civil struggle
a few small furnaces and foundries we're
started in Cass and Cherokee counties and
this abundant ore utilized ON n small scnln
in the making of hollow castings, pillow
points, etc. During the war il was worked
ON o much larger scale, and since then
msre capital has been invest
ed in it. In Marion county near JET
ferson there is a very extensive foundry
with furnace attached where the ore Is
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of railroad already hnilt ond hor ,ho,,sn,'Ia
still in corrso ~ const,,,nt;o,,
compieted in tho newt dccodo " MI, W v vi
millions of TONS Of iron for ra;Is o ~r NJ
md the mvr;od tUt .as, .al meels
l. nacessarv and '' s PpI ;Ui miiioii il?
nonnot;on sbo will rSed i ;noro i,selsases ~
tural indictments already consnr,ip s,'C om'
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'0'"ND' W YAH AoAps'
There is no necessity that any of these
things should be imported from abroad,
when she has in her bosom such hoard OF
iron ore for their manufacture, and If she is
wise she will use this ore for the manulac-
ture of her own supplies and to supply the
world There has been but one drawback
to the induccment of capital to invest in fur
naces, ioundrics, rolling mills, etc etc, and
that was the question Of fuel. That prob
lem has been solved. In addition to the
immonsity of fuel as wood, in the midst of
the iron hills, coal has been discovered, rs
we have before shown, in various parts
of the country and right in the midst OF the
iron in Harrison county. Texas is young
yet, and it cannot be expected that she can
spring forth into giants strength at once,
or full panoplied in all the attributes and
appliances and facilities of greatness, rs
Minerva sprang full-braincd from the brow
OF Jove, but with the elements and requis-
ties of greatness and power all her own, il
but needs that they be made known, and u
little time for her TO put on her armOr, he'll
met and shield, to enter the arena for cons
merclal supremacy, This Texas iron has
Deen submitted 10 the processes for CONVEX