The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-23
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WIN k'.N hNblbNlANA HHN
VEY on TEXAS
our correspondent ifOm IMMORAL
Wells, ralo Pinto County, Insists Ia
biz sppHlal thia morning that thoro ~
positively in that county IL vast quan-
TITS 0f excellent coal. Wo believe tho
statements 10 entirely accord with tho
facts. Mn. JAY GoULp has Sl,0OO,00O
Invested In tho mining of this coal,
and his locomotives are freely sup
piled on tho short trains "a
Abilene aud Colorado City from
those mines, which give em-
pl0yment 20 OvOr 800 people,
And yet but very fow OF ina oliizena OF
ToAas ara aware Of this important in
dusIry, And thus Il runs all through
the State. The heads Ol our state do
partmonts arc to-day at variance and
in darkness gs TO whether limestone,
sauistones, GRANTEES, etc., exist Ia suf-
dcl0nt amount to construct our pro-
posed capitol as required. We ure al
In Ignorance rs 10 tho extent and vslue
of tho beds OF iron ana copper ores
which are known 90 outcrOp In scores
OF counties in tho several sections
The world, aud our own poople, were
aslgulShed 40 tho Exposition last
winter 10 REQ ono o; the hRndsomost
fire mRu,els In the entire exhibit
mpdo rom the exquisite marble ar
shell limestone, taken from tho banks
on the Colorado River some f0ug miles
from Austin, All through the state
arc tho heaviest deposits at the puresL
kg0,in for the manufacture OF the
purcst porcoisinS, ~ also tho primest
OF lire clgys.
\ couple OF years ago PROFESSOR
JoHY &. SMOCR furnished TO tho Unit
% States Government his report made
To tho director Of the geological sur
veg corps list of tho ores, minerals,
metals, etc., In Texas, IA far as no
could obtain Information by personal
iusnec.ion OF the localities and CORE
spordence about them. Ho reported
then that IA Burnett, Llano and San
Saba Counties, oXhGustleRs tons OF SUI
pCrb rranite were 10 be found, while
the best of limestone was TO DO had in
Travis, Lsmsr and Grayson Counties,
and in this list he has omitted the
superior maguosisu varieties that
abound in Baylor, Throckmorton and
other northwestern counties, and hut
recently clearly dehnod to DO OF the
sort that knows no discoloration. Iron,
ho announced, was moro prominently
in Eastern Texas, but other points con-
tanned a marvellous supply. The
brown hsmalite, or iimonite, he saw
in large beds ia Robertson County,
iiva mics east OF Calvert. In Milan
County it appeared abundant, while in
eight miles south of Ruek,
the orc was ineEhsustible as 10th
brown and red homatite. This is like
wise true of jefferson, Cass, etc. Ii
2urneJ and Llsno, occurring in the
granite rockp, there arc strong develop
meets. Indeed, IL would seem that
wherever the older tertiary deposits
prevail tho iron is TO be found, and
this embraces the larger portion OF
Texas.
AS for coal, it vas discovered all
the csrboniTerous formation,
from Llano County north
ward TO Red River, in .aita County.
Our coal region may mole properly
DO divided into, say, three districts,
viz: the Red River, tho Rio Grande
and tho Pecos. The frat embraces the
counties Of Montague, Clay, Wise,
Jack, Young, Shackelford, Palo Pinto,
Parker, !Srath, Eastland, Brown, Com
snche, Coleman, Runneis, Mccullough,
San Saba, Llano, Mason and Tom
Green. To the north of this district,
and bordering it almost everywhere,
the Permisn formation is found, under
which tho carbopiferous sinks. The
quality of all this coal covering an
area OF over 80, 600 square miles, is
and similar to tho Mac
coal in the Indian Territory,
and so much used in Dallas.
AS for Ignite, we have it OK
tending across the entire State
from northeast to southwest, and at
some points the beds are twenty feet
thick. On Padre Island is found a
world of asphaltum, finer and better in
every way than the far-famed article
from Lake Trinidad.
Aud thus it is we know not what we
b ave and are ignorant of our wealth,
until chance occasionally discovers
some unsupported mineral. Pennsyl-
vanis would suffer by comparison with
Texas If we but knew and could
automatically and officially proclaim
our grand mineral possessions. But
the great State OF Texas is without a
geological survey to do this. By all
means let US, ct the earliest moment,
have geological survey of Texas.
The resolution of the citizens OF
Palestine and Anderson County means
business, and our Trunk Road direc-