Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-04

the guiding OF piers Tor bridges. Inc 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. B. Comstock says Of the
central mineral regions of Texas that they
are very rich in rocks suitable for building
purposes. Some of them have been al
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
portatiol shall have made them accessible
10 markets. As yet, however, there ha.
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 baen gathered are here pre-
sented merely as preliminary report.
Referring to our Texas GRANTEES Professor
Comstock says, page 165, that we have
seven or eight distinct types, each charac-
teristic of one particular upiift. CONNER.
cially there will be as many more varieties
whenever the demand has sufficiently
stimulated the development of the re-
sources OF this kind in Liano, Burnet,
Gillespie, Blanco and Mason counties,
named here in the order of areas OF ex-
posture, beginning with the largest" There
are among the GRANTEES what might be
styled gneissic GRANTEES, compressed
GRANTEES, block GRANTEES, friable GRANTEES,
mixed GRANTEES, dimension GRANTEES and
fossil GRANTEES, terms that Will De clearly
recognized Us more or less descr ptive 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, Hr,
say parts of the Babyhead region, and per-
haps also in BuInet county, between Clear
creek and Spring creek, il is very probable
that most excellent speclled and mottIed
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 tiuts of value for or
namentation may be advantageoesIy util-
lied.
Among these GRANTEES may be found the
finest of building stones to be met with in
that class of building stone materials. Tbs
Of, ~.
in Burnet county, though it is possible that
there are Just as good GRANTEES in some OF
the other counties narled. \ 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 u sample of Burnct county ornameu.
tai granite can do so by calling ut the stone
yards of NIessrS. John \. Bergin & Son,
north side public square, where he will lind
two columns of it that were prepared fOH
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 cur opinion when he has ex-
amiued them all, and made comparisons, he
will so away fully satisfied that Texas has,
within herself, everything she need, 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
the first annual report of the Texas geolog.
ical survey, is the beautiful red Pecos sand.
stone. 1t is SO fine that the day will proba-
ably come that shall find it beng shipped
to the city of New York. The Fort Worth.
ian can see it in the magnificent Hendricl,.
building on the corner of Main and Seventh
streets. Not long ago we were down there
with . gentleman Of fine architectural tasts
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 he said:
Where did that stone come froml"
"From near Pecos City in Texas"
"Texas! and where did the architecture.
taste come from that produced the perfect
harmony appearing in the coiors Of thai
buildingl"
Texas"
~ will not take advantage of small mar
to tell him that ne has lied, J." said he, '.bui
will say this much in defiance OF you-it
we had that stone easily accessible 10 New
York, al 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
stone S, give US some stones OF magnificent
quality. But, as we have told you q thou
sand times, there is but one Texas. Tbs
rules that apply to other regions cannot at
all be safely depended upon for Texas
That most beautiful hght-coiored limestone
that we are extensively using at Fort
Worth is from Granbury, Bosqus
which is within the coal measures.
The interested Fort WORKMAN can see q
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 q thou.
sand churches In Texas, or adjacent states,
y-fntrI1 "a