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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 that 

 has furnished good building material for various purposes in that town. 



From Brownwood to San Saba are many beds of sandstones that will 

 make first-class building material when there shall be a demand for it. The 

 time has not yet arrived in the history of this part of the State when men 

 build large and commodious houses out of the most durable material, but 

 have devoted all their capital to investments that will yield a revenue, and 

 have been content to live in houses built of lumber or inferior material. The 

 time will come, however, when the average citizen will make improvements 

 as though he had come to stay a while, and then the immense quarries of 

 building stones found so abundantly in all this part of the country will be 

 brought into use. 



BED SANDSTONE. 



About one mile southwest of Quito, a station on the Texas and Pacific 

 Railway, twelve miles east of Pecos City, a quarry has been recently opened 

 of red sandstone, which is probably one of the finest building stones in the 

 State of that kind of material. The proprietors have secured the necessary 

 transportation rates over the Texas and Pacific Railway. It is their intention 

 to ship large quantities of stone to the eastern part of the State. 



It is not definitely determined what geological formation is at that locality, 

 but it is not later than the Triassic, and very probably belongs to that series. 

 The stone lies in thick beds of even structure and uniform color and in un- 

 limited quantities. It admits of a fine finish ana retains its color well on ex- 

 posure to the weather. The quarry is the most extensive in the State, and it 

 is the intention of the owners to increase their working force as the demands 

 for the stone increases. 



PERMIAN BUILDING STONES. 



There are three kinds of building stones in the northwestern part of the 

 State — the dolomite, calcite, and sandstones. 



LIMESTONES. 



The dolomitic limestones are found principally in the Clear Fork Beds of 

 the Permian. The calcite or common limestone is found in beds throughout 

 the entire Carboniferous strata. 



The dolomitic limestone is very durable as building material, for the 

 reason that from its very composition it will stand the atmospheric influences 

 better than the other stones. Rain water carries a good deal of carbonic 



