Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28

notes to see the craze started arnonr tbs
Indians, extend to all the heavily nav
ulatsd negro regions OF the Southeast.
ern states. Nothing, in our opinion
but determined opposition on the part Of
the dominant aud more enlightened Iaca
will hold it back. -
Professor Robert I. Hill lately stataI
to us, in substance, that Texas has yslu-
able minerals in great abundance: but
as rule. they belong TO class No;
fully appreciated by the masses. Shs
has the proper materials for supplying
the world with the very best quality OF
Portland cement, and yet she import,
thousands upon thousands of dollars
worth of cement every year. The great
Colorado dam ut Austin will use quauti-
ties of it almost untold, all imported a.
heavy expense, and yet every pound
used might just Us we'll have been made
on the immediate grounds, and at a cost
no greater than was necessary to manu-
facture 1t in the regions whence IN
ported.
Then we have in inexhaustible abaud-
ance the finest building stones known 10
the continent, and yet, strange as /,
may appear, building stones are often
ately over our Quarrles of entirely better
materials. Instead of this we ought to
be shipping building stones from Texas
TO almost every point of the compass.
We have marls such rs give life 10 the
great fruit regions in other parts of our
common country lying unused and uu-
thought of at almost every hand.
No one seems 10 consider these very
~,
and go very easy OF employment TO good
purposes, as ut all worthy Of his siIen-
ton. But announce that trace OF
gold, or silver, or lead, or tin has been
seen somewhere within our territory and
all Texas is Gt once up i'll arms. Our
grosser minerals, 80 called, are reslly OF
far greater value 10 Texas were she 10
take proper steps for utilizing them, than
would be 10 her all the gold that now Ia
or ever was in California.
Speaking of the finer minerals rs-
minds us of what Professor Hi said to
us on that subject: As yet no really i'm
portant deposits of this character have
been discovered in Texas, though there
still exists possibility that they may DO
here. The geolosist can only point out
the conditions favoring their existence,
and these have been pointed out. ltis
the common, hard handed, sinewy pros
pector, going ous into the designated
regions with his pick and half-a-dozeu
sand witches for = week living, who
strikes the rich finds and Gets the country
all agog. Those prOspectOrs are not at
work in Texas, and under existing laws
never will be. The prospector csEnot 90
out among the hills OF mountains OK
Texas, ''strike il ricn, and then
stake off his claim and fall to working
out reimbursement for the possible
months of hardsbips and privalan
through which he has just passed. X no
makes the hoped-fo find the first rumo7
of the find that gets afloat Will send some
man out to drive him of the land as
trespasser and take possession Of the
fruits OF his labor by right of previous
fee simple: So, uuSe. .acse ciFeuii-
stances the prospector don I prospect
why should he? And the valuable ores,
il they have an existence, sleep IN ths!f
natural beds unknown to the man VINO
owns them, aud non-tribu.arT to the
natural advantages and general revenue
of Texas. -.
A Belgian inventor, Mr.. Henri PiepSr'
"a to tho front with a new and very sun
pie incandescent lamp. thin, pointer
rod Of carbon, placed vertically, res"
upon two horizontal copper rods about
quarter of an inch apart and forms
bridge between them. The current
passes between the copper rods through
the carbon, rendering it incandesceh,.
Springs move the copper rods signify
when the carbon is consumed aud pre-
vents the breaking of the circuit.
-
Mr. W. s. Hutchinson of Chicago mas
perfected device which promises ~
almost entirely rid cities of the smoks
nuisance. 1t cousum es the smoke anu
is spark arrester as well. The IL
ventor has just what he claims, WsIet
gas furnace, and the simple manner -
which he accomplishes the result 10 au-
mirabIe. Water gas. like all other COM
bustible gas, is compound OF oxygen,
hydrogen and carbon, thrown togethe.
IN proper proportions and in the rien.
manner. The railroad companies arc
throwing about 20 per cent OF the iue'
they buy over the patrons OF the rosa IA
the form of unconsumed coal, but MI.
claims that II Is no longer
that passenger trains shoula
run in q cloud OF smoke and shower u
oinders. Many of these furnaces si'
now III operation in Chicago, and wnei
ever they have been adopted the puI
chssers speak in the highest terms, DoIa
Of their usefulness in purifying ths AH
and as savers Of fuel.