Report of Progress: First report of progress, Ausgabe 1H. Hutchings, state printer, 1889 |
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artesian water asphaltum Bandera Bexar County brown camp Carboniferous Carrizo character clay coal coal field coal seams color conglomerate copper County Creek Cretaceous deposits depth district E. T. Dumble Eagle Eagle Pass eastern examination feet thick foothills Fort Davis four miles Geologist Gillespie County granite grass gravel greensand hills inches thick iron irrigation laminated land lignite lime limestone locality located marble material miles east miles west mineral mines mountains northeast northwest November Nueces Nueces River obtained outcrop Pacific Railroad Palo Pinto County Paso petrifactions places porous porphyry prairie prospects quantities quartz Quitman rainfall River rocks running sample San Antonio San Tomas sandstone sandy sea level seam of coal shaft shale Sierra Blanca siliceous silver slate slopes soil southwest specimens strata stratum streams supply surface Texas Texas and Pacific thin seams timber tion Uvalde Uvalde County valley Van Zandt County vicinity yellow
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Seite 8 - Dig a vertical hole, like a post hole, at least twenty inches deep. Scrape the sides clean, so as to see at what depth the change of tint occurs which marks the downward limit of the surface soil, and record it.
Seite 45 - SIR : In compliance with your request, I have the honor to submit a brief report of the...
Seite 9 - But in ordinary cases, ten or twelve inches of subsoil will be sufficient for the purposes of examination in the Laboratory. The specimen should be taken in other respects precisely like that of the surface soil ; while that of the material underlying this
Seite 8 - Should the change of color occur at a less depth than six inches, the fact should be noted, but the specimen taken to that depth nevertheless, since, it is the least to which rational culture can be supposed to reach. In case the difference in the character of a shallow surface soil...
Seite 23 - ... the well. 5. A suitable exposure of the edge of the porous stratum, so that it may take in a sufficient supply of water. 6. An adequate rainfall to furnish this supply. 7. An absence of any escape for the water at a lower level than the surface of the well.
Seite 8 - Third. — Observe and record carefully the normal vegetation, trees, herbs, grass, etc., of the average land. Avoid spots showing unusual growth, whether in kind or quality, as such are likely to have received...
Seite 24 - I conceive that one of the most favorable conditions for securing a fountain is found when thick semiporous beds, constantly saturated with water to a greater height than the fountain head, lie upon the porous stratum, and occupy the whole country between the well and its source.
Seite 7 - State, and shall also furnish to the party requesting it a certificate thereof: Provided, That in all cases when assays or analyses are made upon request of any person the party making the request shall be required by the Commissioner to make affidavit that the specimen offered was found upon the land of the party making the request, or that said request is made at the instance or with the full knowledge and consent of the owner of the land upon which said specimen was found.
Seite 9 - An investigation of the geological formation and the topography of the country with a view to determining the probability of obtaining artesian water and the feasibility of irrigating from such wells as well us from streams, shallow wells, or tanks, where necessary.
Seite 19 - ... miles northwest of Crystal Falls, in Stephens County, which he named the Brazos Coal Bed. He says: "The coal strata proper are 85 feet thick, and are included between an upper sandstone and conglomerate and a lower gray limestone.