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TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
the suits about land grants may finally be decided, the country better 
settled and gain political weight, I do not hesitate to predict the de¬ 
velopment of the mineral resources of Trans-Pecos Texas, and I sin¬ 
cerely hope and expect this my prediction will be verified, as my pre¬ 
diction that the mineral resources of Llano county would be acknowl¬ 
edged was verified already in 1887. 
