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State's financial interest. Governor Hogg ■s'etoed a groat number of 

 items, among them tliat of the rlu-a t>y for the second year. In his 

 message he writes the cause thus : 



For the reason that for the year ending- Febi-uary 28, 1894, a like appro- 

 priation of $20,000 is made, and that by the time it is exhausted such work 

 will have prosiressed far in advance of the demands of the times. The State 

 can not engage in the mining husino&s, but must give way to private enterprise 

 and capital. Up to date, through the efficient corps of the scientific gentlemen 

 connected with and in charge of the geological department, she has pointed 

 the way to mines and minerals of great value on public and private laud.s, 

 and has laid out work enough to engage industry and capital of immense pro- 

 portions for many years to come. It is deeme<l advisable now not to destroy 

 but to preserve intact the rich mineral specimens gathered and the valuable 

 surveys made by this department until such time in the future, after the 

 expiration of the current year, as inihlic interest may dictate that the survey 

 shall be renewed and continued. 



Tiiis reduced appropriation necessitated a rearrangement of the 

 forces, and efforts were directed cliiefiy toward the completion of the 

 work in hand and filling in the gaps. To bring expenditures within 

 appropriation, nearly all the force was discontinued on September 1, 

 others being continued until their reports were completed. 



Mr. Kennedy spent two months w'ithout result watching the sink- 

 ing of a well by the Gladys City Oil Company, south of Beaumont, 

 where later Capt. A. F. Lucas brought in his phenomenal gusher and 

 opened up tlie Spindle Top field. He then returned to Austin and 

 completed his paper on the clays of Texas. 



Mr. Dnmble made two instrumental sections across southwest Texas. 

 The first, beginning at La Costa on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San 

 Antonio Railroad, follow^ed Atascosa Creek and the Nueces Eiver 

 to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad at Wade, passing 

 through Lytle, Pleasanton, Oakville, Dinero, and Lagarto. The 

 second began at San Diego and was run northward by Gray's and 

 Gueydan's ranches to Tilden, and thence to Pearsall on the Inter- 

 national & Great Northern Railroad. He had as assistants Messrs. 

 Singley, Mathias, Levorett, and Posey. Later, Mi*. Dunible nuide the 

 section between San Antonio and Laredo along the International & 

 Great Noi*thern Railroad, and eastward along the Mexican National 

 Railroad to Los Ojuelos, Ochoa, and Pena. Messrs. Taff and 

 Leverett, continuing the work of the previous year, mapped the Cre- 

 taceous area west of the Colorado River. Sections were made along 

 its northern boundary between xlustin and Fredericksburg and across 

 it from Lange's Mill, Gillespie County, by way of Kerrville and 

 Boeme to the Balcones fault, three miles southeast of Leon vSprings, 

 Bexar Countv. 



