Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
POPULAR SCIENCE.
NEARNESS OF The STONE AGr
IN TEXAS.
Three Bushels of Arrowhe4ds-4a Ado.
riginal Factory-GreatesT Engineering
work. Electricity in war Itat> a.
Nedicine-Iis Lighting Trains
Science in GERMANY.

| II would now appear that The -., Ole 4g-'
| of man may have cone down Hear-r Ia ne
| present time in Texas than ia an. orlrr
| section of North America. Professor Reyar.
| 7. Hill says. in the American Gaolos.>t FOR
June, that no region of country .-In plesel,
such ideal conditions for aborigiua! uouadi.
| existence as the lower rretareOu- hills ~
Central Texas. and here the C1maucrrs.
! Huecos, LipanS and KioSdS for mluy Jal-
turtles lived what must have been most per
feet savage life. In these ulateauS and mesas
is an extensive development of flint n0du.r,.
i clear translucent variety. resembling .u
every Theological aspect the rrrrsceou>
fints of Europe. The regiou has Usc.
springs and water holes. and near ANY Of
them can be found workshops where lie
Indian manufactured spe9r ami arrow
heads. The prevalent method seems 20
have been to rudely fashion the uudl.e>
into turtle backs al the finn hoi- USUALLY
near the escarpments Of the meS4S ana
then to convey their untiniShs products 10
the water holes. whore they col1o Or hua'Iy
shaped at leisure.
Near an old Comanche trail ia Western
Travis county nearly every flint seems 10
have been broken or tested. ana uUmeTJ.~
failures are found which The old syh0o.
archelosist would vow are perfect typr~ o.
European paleolithic implements. BltA-l
Hill has obtained numerous evidences thai
the implements We're manufactured in his
century, not only from Inc fact that the Ia
plements are always on the surfl,e Jld
never buried. but from ocular witnesses ?,
the fact that the Comanches and other
tribes actually used them in their warfare
with the white men.
Speaking ofthose Indian workshops .-ai~
one into an inclination 10 speculate is {"
whether or not there were impiemrut-mJh
ing mechanics among those Indians. "Lo
piled their trade as mechanics do no" VI
did each party make his own implement
when he wanted one We are rather Of The
opinion that there We're mechanics. ana a-s0
dealers in merchandise Of this cilrac'1l-
Anyhow, we know there were ho3Id1 o.
such implements. In 1865 q frcShrt IN NE
Ohio river cut of the soft bank Q: liz
stream at Leavenworth, Ind. exposing
pocket of stone implemenrS-Spea hel'-
and arrow heads-enough to have measured
at least three bushels. They were aOJ..
four feet below the common surface Of iLr
river bottom, and had been buried there,
evidently. We examined the deposit WI"
great care. but found nothing 10 indicate
the age in which the implemrtS hal been
placed where found.
III 1863. while working the Indian Sd
Equities Of Tennessee under tue smith
sonian Institution, we found in 4 marrow
rocky valley near the Tenness ee liSer d
point where there was a ton or more o. Nh
fragments and defective flint implements
They all laid within a radius OF about io!H
feet. There We're no tiints in the lorna
tions of that region, consequent fhr ms
terials worked must have been Transported
from considerable distances. Neither W.
there any natural reason for why =. the IL
dams should have performed their niuF
workings at that particular point, - tile'e
were other similar valleys near II hdud --@
an abundance of water everywhere. Inc
only apparently reasonable hypolhe7S
then, at which we could arrive, was thal w
had found the site Of an extensive aoorIsF
nal plant for the manufacture Of flAt III
PIGMENTS. Our report setting forth ti-'s
notion was fully Endorsed by the late F'''
fessor Henry, then in charge of the STh.-'
sonian Institution. -
One Of the worlds greatest engineering
works now in progress is the building OIL
gigantic reservoir to supply Bom64J Will
water. The dam will be two miles iopE'
lis feet high and 1913 feet wide at the o-7e
The scientific papers tell us that Frsh''
has been trying electric motors for
waiting and depressing heavy guns. ana w. =
moving them into direction, using sepS r
rate motor for each of the two Operations
A considerable saving of time is efecle1.
Three war vessels for Chilli now Uent
built in France are TO be fitted with su''