San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-05

Ramie weed into useful cloth is dis
played.
A surprising display of cocoons
and raw silk raised ins San Antonio
is made in contrast with samples
from silk centers of the world. and
Professor Attwater firmly believes,
| from his researches that the silk
raised in Texas is as good or better
than any in the world. The beauti-
full wild cocoons from India are
shown in valuable samples.
Grain In All Stages.
Samples of tobacco raised in Tex
as that have taken prizes wherever
shown; rice-Honduras and japanese
varieties, being the finest, and the
best adapted for cultivation in Texas
in every stage from seed to puffed
and flaked, with all the by-products
made from the stalks. such as ropes,
hats, brushes, ETC.; peas, beans,
wheat, rye, oats-in all, fifty types
of grain raised in Texas, are shown
as part of one section of the ex-
hibit. Corn is given particularly
interesting display, with specimens
of corn from the period of its wild
growth, when it was Il variety of
large grain, with separate husk on
every grain, up to specimens raised
by Professor tAttwater himself, one
of which is fourteen inches long, and
another. kept in preventative. ten
inches long, and twelve inches in
circumference.
Cotton. wild, brown. silk, lintless,
sea-island and many other varieties,
including sample of the primitive
cotton found by Livingston in Africa,
in 1852 are formed into an unusual
ly valuable disn'Iy, of which many
of the by-products form an interest.
ing part. All specimens shown have
been, gold medal winners in many
exhibitions.
One display case is devoted entire
ly to the products of the mesquite
which for years. was despised and
ignored. The beautiful varieties of
hard and lasting wood, ground cake
for cattle feed, oil, gum. glue,
medicinal bark and bark for tan
ming, and various dyes. are only a
few of the more usual mesquite
products. In this connection, Profess
sor Attwater points out, that the
chaparrai country abounds in raw
material of vast commercial value.
Candelilla wax, guayule, shown in
four processes used in the making
of rubber, laurel beans, used in the
old Indian trial by poison, dye-woods
and berries. are included in one ex- !
hibition and are most interesting.
Texas sands of every description,
used in making glass and for build
ing purposes of every kind are shown,
n s1r ell H.
state, medicinal clays, dye-clays, red
and yellow ochre, used by the In.
mans for paint, asphalt, polishing
clay, and volcanic dusts. used in
face and tooth powders Papers made
in Texas from the wild Texas growths
of begas, seed-hulls, rice-stalks.
prickly-pear and other varieties of
cactus, offer a wide field of specula-
ton as to what. could be made of
the vast waste products of the state
if their nature were fully studied and
understood.
Have Prehistoric Specimens.
The geological display of minerals
from all over the state. seems to bear
out the old assertion. that any known
mineral product could be found
somewhere in, the vast expanse of
Texas. Beautiful specimens, beauti-
fully arranged. are shown. of lime
stone. variegated, spotted and striped
marble; silver, gold, copper, lead,
anthony. zinc, 80 varieties of iron.
manganese; mica, quartz, tourmaline,
garnet, corrundum. cinnabar. iron
pyrites fools. goldl. Illuminated cal
cite, cadOlomite. ichthyol. felspar,
aZurite. malachite, gypsum. beryl
carnelian, microlene, pearl-turquoise,
red and gray agate, quartz crystal,
garnets. amethysts and turquoise
singly and often in combinations of
marvellous interest and value One
specimen of gypsum, formed by ma
ture in huge flower, and heavily