Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-08

over these beds this stone has been used in
the building of piers for bridges. The ease
with which the rock can be quarried. and
the fact that it needs so little dressing,
make it very desirable building material.
There are also some very desirable
sandstones in the Clear Fork beds; some
OF them have been used at San Angelo,
Benjamin and other places"
In his contribution to the first annual re-
port Professor I. 8. Comstocll says of the
central mineral regions of Texas that they
are very rich in rocks suitable for building
purposes, Some of them have been Ar
ready proved in practical Use in stone
houses ard dwellings, and others have
much more than local reputation. Many
not yet so employed will, no doubt, become
commercially valuable when railroad trans
portatfon shall have made them accessible
to markets. As yet, however, there has
been no SYSTEMATIC testing of any of the
strata, so that it is not possible to report in
detail concerning the strength and dura-
bility Of these natural products. Such
facts as have been gathered are here pre-
sented merely as preliminary report.
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Referring to our Texas GRANTEES Professor
Comstoch says, page 1G5, that we have
''seven or eight distinct types, each charac-
teristic of one particular uplift. CONNER
cially there viii be as many more varieties
whenever the demand has sufficiently
stimulated the development of the re-
sources of this kind in Llano, Burnet,
Gillespie, Blanco ami Mason counties,
named here in the order of areas OF ex-
posture, beg ginning with the largest" There
are among the GRANTEES what might Do
styled gneissic GRANTEES, compressed
GRANTEES, block GRANTEES, friable GRANTEES.
mixed GRANTEES, dimension GRANTEES and
fossil GRANTEES, terms that will be clearly
recognized as more or less descriptive Of
character by all persons who understand
such things. -
Some of these GRANTEES are simply i'm
mense, in point of quantity, and, continues
Professor Comstock, if the best of them
should be quarried, as in Llano county, or,
say parts of the Babyhead region, and per-
haps also in Burnet county, between Clear
creek and Spring creek, it is very probable
varieties may be obtained. These will Of
ten polish with good effect, and some out
crops show, by their style of weatheriug,
that certain oxidation tints of value for Or
namentation may be advantageously util-
lied. -.
Among these GRANTEES may be found the
finest of building stones to be met with in
that class of building stone materials. The
best of these, as yet known and worked, is
in Burnett county, though it is possible that
there are just as good GRANTEES in some Of
the other counties named. a person desir-
Gus of seeing fair sample of Burnet county
building granite can fully accommodate
himself by going to Austin and examining
that magnificent building, the state capitol.
1t is constructed of Burnet county granite
The citizen of Fort Worth who would like
to see sample of Burnet county ornamen-
tal granite can do so by calling at the stone
yards of Messrs. John \. Bergin & Son,
north side public square, where lie will find
two columns OF it that were prepared for
our late Spring Palace exhibition. In the
same yard he will find GRANTEES from vari-
Gus other sections of this country and
Europe, and in our opinion when he has ex-
amined them all, and made comparisons, he
will go away fully satisfied that Texas has,
within herself, everything she needs, if her
people would only develop her natural
resources -
One OF the most popular sandstones for
building purposes that we now have on
commerce, and not specially mentioned in
Z no animal roport of tho Taync fraoIOc,-
ical survey, is the beautiful red Pecos sand.
stone. 1t is so fine that the day will proba-
ably come that shall find it being shipped
to the city of New York. The Fort Worth.
ian can see it in the magnificent Hendricks
building on the corner of Main and Seventh
streets. Not long ago we were down there
with gentleman of fine architectural taste
from New York. When he got sight of the
Hendricks building he stopped, and for
length of time that surprised US we could
get nothing out Of him. Finally ne said:
Where did that stone come from?''
:. From near Pecos City in Texas
Texas and where did the architectural
taste come from that produced the perfect
harmony appearing in the coors of that
building
''Texasn z
g I will not take advantage of small man
to tell him that he has lied" said he, but
| will say this much in defiance of you-if
we had that stone easily accessible to New
York, all the famous brown-stone fronts
OF our city would be pulled down in less
than twenty years.
And even our coal formations, forma-
tons usually not famous for good building
stones, give US some stones of magnificent
quality. But, as we have told you a thou.
sand times, there is but one Texas. The
rules that apply to other regions cannot al
all be safely depended upon for Texas.
That most beautiful light-coiored limestone
that we are extensively using 1T Fort
Worth is from Granbury, Bosque
which is within the coal measures,
The interested Fort WORKMAN can see
very fair sample of it now being used in
the Catholic church building. That church
is being built of the Granbury limestone
alone, and since looking upon that struct.
ure we have jumped to the conclusion that
if we were commissioned to build thou.
sand churches in Texas, or adjacent states,
we would build them all OF Texas Granbllry