Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-08
TEXAS MINES AND MINERALS.

a mountain of singuiarly pure gypsum
| lying on the ives. side of the Mes!lla val
| ley few miles above Fl Paso, says the
| Herald, and but snort distance from
| the Santa Fe railrhad, has been taken
| up by some Californians, and if the
samples forwarded Yesterday 10 San
! Francisco prove satisfactory the par
ties will probably construct kilns for
| burning, mills for grinding and rail-
| road for transporting the material to
market.
The Brentwood Bulletin Of the 4th
instant has the following: Monday
| morning Messrs. Gearing aud Goeiett OF
the Sunset Oil company placed force OF
carpenters a work on the immense der
| rich that will be used III boring for oil.
The place selected is just between the
residence of Sam Dowty and the Davis
place, and on a line between the Neich-
niger well and the Coggin well. 1t is in
full view of the railroad and all passing
trains. The timbers for the huge derrick
ars eighteen by twenty in hes i'll size +,
and some OF them nearly thirty feet in
length. AT the base 1t will be twenty
feet square and will rise to a height OF
seventy feet. The boring machinery left
Pittsburg over two weeks ago, and Is ex-
pected here every day. so that there will
be no delay whatever in the work.
While oil is the primary object of the
work Messrs. Gearing and Goelett fully
expect to strike natural gas while
boring.
in the last issue of the New Birming-
ham Times is the following: The wealth
in and around New Birmingham in-
creases as new investigations are made,
two months since no Que dreamed that
anything more in the iron ore line could
possibly exist, yet few days ago an ex-
pert found what he terms (inexhaust-
IDLE practically deposits of pearoted ore,
/. e., pieces of ore about tbs size of an
ordinary pea, congulatad or cemented IN
macs. This penroted ore forms the
banks along the creeks in and about New
Il rmingham, and while all our people
knew ii was here they attached no value
to it. The general manager OF the New
Birmingham iron and land company has
within the past few days had two
analyses made Of this ore,
one by Professor Porter OF St.
Louis, Mo-, aud another by Professor
Arthur Mahony of New York, and these
analyses show that there is 81 per cent O!
metallic iron, and running high silica
and entirely free from phosphorus, max
ing It now certainty that New Bir-
miugham has q fine steel ore, Gs well ae
the beet iron for carwheels, piping, etc.
We have known all the time that we had
the equal, If not the best claybrand ore
i'll the country, said TO be the best steel
ore in the world. The discovery Of this
magnificent quality of pearoted ore is of
great value to ths already lordiy possess
sion of this company At New Birming-
ham. It's freedom from phosphorus any
iron man will explain to you Is uncom-
mon in Southern ores and renders II of
great value for the making of
steel. This ore and tina. at Llano,
Tex, beng all there is in the
South az far as the knowledge of any
of this people goes. Every day brings
some new and startling facts to light.
We have been here for some time and
were of the opinion that all the hematire
iron laid in stratus. A gentleman who
had been prospecting in the iron beds for
some time past in aud about New Bir-
mingham told US that the whole of GER
tain hills were iron ore, and that there
were acres of 1t that would yield 10 900
to IS 900 tons; that there were stratas
from one to eight feet deep over thou
sands of acres OF the property of the
company, but there were also mountains
that no amount of WELD could be fixed,
nj an approximation even. Each and
every day brings facts that are astonish-
ing, and shows the wealth of New Birm-
ingham beyond calculation.