Identifier: firstfourthannua02geol (find matches)
Title: First(-fourth) annual report of the Geological survey of Texas, 1889(-1892) Edwin T. Dumble, state geologist
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Geological Survey of Texas Dumble, E. T, (Edwin Theodore. 1852-1927
Subjects: Geology Paleontology Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Austin, State Printing Office (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the city of Dallas. Stone from the same quarrywas used in the construction of the large Joe Brown grocery house as well asothers in the city of Fort Worth. The stone is there in unlimited quanti-ties, and is within easy reach of the railroad. This stone was thoroughlytested by the United States architect before it was allowed to be used in thebuilding at Dallas, and determined to be a very superior stone for building,as has been mentioned elsewhere. The court house in the town of Mon-tague is built of sandstone from a quarry a few miles west of that town.At Bowie, in the same county, some of the business houses are built of thesame material. At Mineral Wells some of the business houses are built of sandstone foundin the vicinity. At Ranger, along the line of the Texas and Pacific Railway,is a stone that has been used extensively not only for building houses but forconstruction of piers for the railway bridges. At Eastland is a bed of stone that furnishes a good building material. ■
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o H 3a >^ & < ID aw o H Q QW BUILDING STONES. 463 Some of the houses at Cisco are built from sandstone found in the vicinity.Just north of the town of San Saba a few miles is a bed of sandstone thathas furnished good building material for various purposes in that town. From Brownwood to San Saba are many beds of sandstones that willmake first-class building material when there shall be a demand for it. Thetime has not yet arrived in the history of this part of the State when menbuild large and commodious houses out of the most durable material, buthave devoted all their capital to investments that will yield a revenue, andhave been content to live in houses built of lumber or inferior material. Thetime will come, however, when the average citizen will make improvementsas though he had come to stay a while, and then the immense quarries ofbuilding stones found so abundantly in all this part of the country will bebrought into use. BED SANDSTONE. About one mile southwest of Qui

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