The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-02
Economic Minerals Of San Saba County.


there oucoppng extensive deposit coored
BILE of great beauty The greater part of these San Saba
bles marbles having Crystalline texture and
charoidal fracture.
There are many varieties of this marble all of which is
handsome The greater part coored with rich tnts
clouded and vened One kind has solid delicate flush of
peach bloom without couding Another and the most
abundant has fine rich yeowsh ground couded and vened
with coors pink orange and red Another has light
flesh cooed ground with beautiful cloudng of light red
South of this deposit ten miles there extensive
deposit of white marble only partially Crystalline in texture
1t closely resembles ivory in COLOR and readily takes fine
polish This strafed the layers having thickness of from
few inches two feet 1t can be easily and economically
quared viii weather WELL and will be valuable for most pur
poses which white marble suited The coored marble
massive BEDS from eight to twelve inches in
thickness. team be quarried in immense blocks.
Specimens of these marbles furnished the National
Museum Washington and pronounced very beautiful
and in composition unusually interesting by Dr. Hawes who
then charge the pathological department and
probably that time the highest authority upon rock material
in the United States He said that they different
position from any other specimens the extensive collection
under his charge Subsequently those specimens formed
part of limited number of blocks selected from thevas colec
ton of the National Museum to represent varieties
of marbles of value United States the Worlds
Fair at New Orleans The San Saba marbles were given
prominent place in this Government exhibit
In the meteorological and geological department of the
Texas exhibit New Orleans polished blocks of these beau
full marbles formed attractive feature They occupy
place the of the Texas State Geological and Scen-
tifc Society, at Houston. Texas.
Col H P Brewster, formerly Commissioner INSURANCE
Statistics and History who commissioned select the
material for the inscribed block from Texas for the Washington
Monument after carefully examining material from all
parts the state selected the San Saba marble best suited
for the purpose An insufficient appropriation and want of
facilities for quarryng transportation defeated purpose
to use it.
Want of facilities of the nature also prevented
place of the Georgia marbles used in our State Capitol
Within less than half mile from the outcroppng of the
principal marble bed there bursts bluff of the
great springs of San Saba county The marble situated
that can be placed upon trucks Immediately from beds and
directly under the propelled by the power
fOrded by the flowing springs
Sandstone suitable building purposes occurs in very
great abundance many parts OF the county This valuable
sandstone exceptional in respects admirably
adapted construction that class of building where
beauty color and ornamentaton be combined with econ
cost In color nature has perfect as the
experienced artist could desire Uniformity color in this
rich and abundant material truly astonishing as blocks taken
from the beds miles apart have been found h match in color
perfectly The color a rich yellow that tint most de-
sabe for large well humble structures Under the
chise works easily especially when fresh from quarry
tent and weather stains found brightness of
color The Colorado River way through an extensive
deposit of this valuable sandstone exposing many strata
of which fully twelve feet thickness any de-
sired size can be quarried little cost for shipping
Gndsone grit of good quality has been found the
San Saba River its mouth other localities
the Colorado river That the mouth of the San Saba
worked many years ago. and grndsone from in
by many families in the county.
Near the of San Saba there occurs deposit of blue
limestone of superior quality compact works admirably
under the chise takes fine polish and when well polished it
very The process polishing darken the color
to blush black 1t is admirably suited for trimmings forming
fine with bright coors of the sandstone and
bes found in the vicinity
Freproof rock found in great abundance, underlying
above mentioned blue limestone This MATERIAL though