360 



CENTRAL MINERAL REGION OF TEXAS. 



TABLE IV. LIMONITIC (HYDRATED) ORES. 



Localities. 



1. Little Llano Creek, Llano County. 



2. Cold Creek, Llano County. 



3. Near Suttons, Llano County. 



4. Iron Mountain, Llano County. 



5. Chaney's diggings, Llano County. 



6. Garner Crossing, Llano River, Llano County. 



7. Hinton Creek, San Saba County. 



8. Heard's diggings, near Camp San Saba, McCulloch County. 



9. Seven miles west of Mason, Junction City road. 

 10.. Iron Creek, Gillespie County. 





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67.39 

 64.77 

 69.80 

 78.83 

 57.65 

 57.54 

 86.63 

 82.60 

 46.21 

 79.56 



14.40 



1 14.95 



21.36 



5.61 



21.65 



30.30 



5.20 



2.58 



41.58 



10.80 



8.21 

 7.71 

 3.10 

 3.17 

 3.09 

 1.66 

 0.17 

 1.60 

 3.61 

 3.04 



0.61 

 Trace 

 Trace 

 3.20 

 0.48 

 1.48 

 1.15 

 .45 

 4.45 



0.54 

 Trace 

 Trace 



2.34 



Trace 

 Trace 

 Trace 

 0.04 







5.20 



10.10 



4.40 



12.50 



4.45 



9.36 



6.60 



11.80 



5.15 



99.56 

 100.08 

 100.81 

 100.39 

 100.61 

 100.35 

 100.85 

 100.03 



99.01 



47.17 



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 6* . 

 7* . 

 8* . 

 9*2 



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Trace 

 Trace 



0.30 

 Trace 

 0.06 



45.34 

 48.86 

 55.18 

 40.36 



0.51 

 0.09 

 0.92 



Trace 

 .26 



0.82 

 0.18 

 0.20 

 0.35 

 .39 



40.28 

 60.64 

 57.82 

 32.35 

 55.69 



* Analysis by J. H. Herndon. 



1 Magnanese Dioxide— No. 1, Trace; No. 5, 11.12. 



2 Ferrous Oxide— No. 2, 1.12; No. 3, 1.40; No. 9, 2.78. 



f Analysis by L. Magnenat. 



THE FUTURE OF THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY IN CENTRAL TEXAS. 



Speaking from the standpoint of a mining engineer, there can be no doubt 

 of the possibilities of a large and valuable output of marketable ore from 

 this region. The writer has already summed up his views upon this point in 

 an article in the Engineering and Mining Journal, New York, published April 

 5, 1890, in the following words: 



It is as the seat of a commanding iron industry that Central Texas must look forward to 

 her glory, in the main. With all the wonderful array of natural resource and artificial 

 forcing which has brought to light the great possibilities of the South in other districts, I do 

 not hesitate to report from actual knowledge that Texas may confidently expect to take very 

 high rank among them all whenever her dormant iron fields become fully known. In amount 

 and quality, and in facility of mining, reducing, manufacturing, and distributing of products, 

 •no other State can equal this when the ordinary forces of civilization have been properly 

 applied to utilize what nature has provided. Very extensive deposits of beauxite, limnite, 

 limonite, and other hydrated ores, in many instances not seriously contaminated with silica, 

 occur all through the area of Central Texas ; hematites and magnetites, though more restricted, 

 exist in great quantities over wide belts, and many of these show by analysis that they are 



