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TRANSACTIONS OF THE TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
ever, I can not endorse. But without this fertilizer, the metallic and 
non-metallic mineral resources alone would class Texas among the rich¬ 
est States of the Union, even though the State had not immense agri¬ 
cultural resources, and in spite of the undeniable fact that stockraising 
is on the decline. But in order to develop the vast resources of Texas, 
there is required a little more knowledge, a good deal more energy and 
enterprise, and the three things which Frederick the Great said were re¬ 
quired to carry on a war, viz., money, money, and once more, money. 
