Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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the ubiquitous frame house isyielding to the stucco, and there has been a much-neededepidemic in the building of sidewalks. Beautiful building stones in immense variety and amountare to be found, but the demand is small. Various finegranites exist in practically unlimited amounts. A superiorred sandstone is mined at Barstow, and excellent sandstones,marbles, and limestones occur variously. The productionof asphalt as a by-product in oil refining has interfered some-what with the use of the natural rock asphalt which occursabundantly at Uvalde, at Montague, and a few other places.Nevertheless, Uvalde asphalt was used for paving quiterecently in several cities. Precious stones and metals are few and far between andmostly in the Trans-Pecos region. Gold occurs in thecentral Texas granites in small amounts. It is said that adollar a day may be made by industriously panning thegranite sands, which, strange to say, often float. Sevenor eight millions of dollars of silver have come from the
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