Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
LLANO.
The Foundation for Great Industrial
Center-1he Railroads See 1t.
Mineral and Geological Features of the COun
try EXtraOriinar,-A S.c'ion That
Can lie Held Back.
LLANo, TEX, Dec. s, 1890.

LLAto, AhA-p oGS. V, A9S"s
| To the Gazette.
The foundation for a great industrial
city is being laid here. No one can
doubt who comes here aud makes n cure
full investigation OF the resources OF this
section, but will say that here is to be
the great manufacturing city of the
| Southwest; and from the way in which
| the railroads are building and preparing
| to build here, it would seem that they
| also appreciated the fact. Her citizens
| feel confident of her future greatness,
and are backing their faith by placing
their money in brick and stone buildings.
| The well-known civil engineer and
| mining expert, Judge NJ. L. Lynch Of
| Fort Worth. is here making II survey for
| IL system Of improvements for the Llano
| improvement company, to consist of
| wattrworks, sewerage. and daw across
| the LIsno, II swift aud beautiful river
| which flows by thu town. This dam will
| be built on q natural ledge of granite
| which extends across the river, anu will
he constructed from granite, which can
| be found on the ground. Judge Lynch
| estimates that there will bs II
working power of thirty feet, which +,
after furnishing power to pump
| water for the waterworks, generating
| electricity fo- motors and lights will fur
| nish plenty of power for cotton and
! wooden mills, granite ami marble polish
| ing plants and other manufacturing en-
| ;erprises. Overlooking the town is u
hill about 300 feet high. Here will be
erected standpipe to whirh the
tar IN 10 h0 s.ifu xxilt hn
| pumped. This will afford static press
ure of 1870 pounds to the square iuch at
! any point In the city. Judge uvnch Is
very enthusiastic over the resources aud
! possibilities of this section. He aud Al
Of the citizens of Llano are very anxiols
/ to see the Fort Worth and Rio Grunde
! extended here. US they are very anxious
| for more intimate relations with Fort
Worth, cs they realize fullyswhat such
| relations mean to them. In speaking 10
/ Judge Lynch in regard TO this section
! he said: The mineral and geoloeIcat
| TEXTURES Of this country are something
extraordinary and have been quite u
surprise to me, especially the iron de-
| posts which are very valuable, being
mainly black magnetic. very low in
phosphorous. from OLA to .0i6 and from
6l.l5 TO 6S.67 per cent of metallic
iron which places them in the
front rank of Bessemer ones.
This means much more to Texas
than would at first sight appear. owing to
the scarcity Of such ores in the United
States and the cheapness with which
such ore can be converted into steel by
the Besserner process without resorting
to the more expensive method of de-
phosphorizin2 by the Basic process, as is
| necessary In treating common ores, in
addition to this manganese Of high grade
Is found, small quantity OF which i, re-
quired i'll the process Of steel making.
To give an idea of the value OF such de-
posts 1t is only necessary to say that this
class of ore is shipped thousands or miles,
from Cuba to Pennsylvania and from the
Lake Superior region to Ohio and Penn
sTlvania and other sections of the conn
try, and while the Cuban ores are low in
PHOSPHORUS, they do not average over
so per cent OF metallic iron and there Is
but one mine. the Great Republic. in the
Lake Superior district that shows rs high
percentage OF metallic iron as the ores
of this section.
In this connection 1t seems to me that
Fort Worth occupies d favorable position
with reference 10 these deposits, being
cnlv about two hundred miles distant on
direct line to the Rio Grande road
which will no doubt be extended here In
the near future, by which the ore could
be laid down at q low figure, aud with
the t1uxing material already present In
abundance, It would be q question of
bringing the fuel at reasonable cost to
smelt these ores which would place the
town in an enviable position in regard
TO iron manufacturing, and il the coul
along the headwuters Of the West Fork
of the Trinity and the upper Brazos can
be made available for the purpose, there
10 no reason whatever why Fort Worth
should not only smrlt these ores, but
roll the product into bar iron and steel,
1. beams channel bars and bridge shapes
generally, make barbed wire aud nails,
aud the many other articles of every day
use.
As to the many specimens Of building
stons here, they are simply innumerabls
aud in profusion all over the country.
Granite. both gray and red, marble OF
various coiors, including the most beau