El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Eighth Year, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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WEST OVERLAND STREET.
Finest Livery in the City.
feed and Sale Stable*. Corral Attached. M. A. DOLAN, Proprietor
Coffin & Seeton
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ORGANS.
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WALZ & GO., Music Dealers, Monarch Block,
El Paso, Texas.
SOUTH CAROLINA'3 PHOSPHATES.
The above map has been especially
prepared by the Times in three sizes, for
backs of Envelopes, Letter Heads, and for
Posters.
ThepTiMES Job Rooms will print this ex-
cellent advertisement of El Paso on the backs
of Envelopes, Letter Heads, Bill Heads,
Circulars, Shipping Tags, Etc. Free, on all
orders o f ,000 or over.
Ulnet in the Region of the Ashley River.
Mining, Washing and Drying,
The whole coast region seems to have
once been the bed of a shallow inland sea,
and over a compact bed of marl Borne
forty or more feet iu depth there lies a de-
posit of phosphate of ljme from eighteen
to thirty-six inches thick. This Is just be-
low the recent soil and sand. It is reached
by stripping the surface till at a depth of
fifteen to twenty inches the deposit is
found. The phosphate is in the form of
nodular concretions, from the size of one'a
head down to coarse gravel, about CO per
cent, of it being sand and mare by humus.
This Is loaded on to tramway cars and
hauled on an Inclined road to the top of
the washing house. From the cars it Is
dumped into long troughs— inverted pyra-
mids—at the bottom of which are large re-
volving shafts armed with steel teeth,
which serve to break the large lumps into
smaller ones and return the whole into
lower troughs, la which revolve other
shafts armed with paddles, spirally
arranged, to carry the phosphate forward
and deliver it on to a screen inclined at an
angle of forty-flve degrees, from which it
fells to the floor, Daring ail this time it
is treated with sprays of water, and the
dirt and sand are borne off in a contrary
direction by a suitable reverse slant in the
troughs.
The damp but clean phosphatic rock is
then shoveled into barrows and wheeled
into the upper part of large brick kilns
about 00x100 feet and twenty-five feet
high. The kiln is first prepared by
spreading on the bottom a layer of washed
phosphatic pebbles, two feet thick. In
this are laid iron fines to give air, and
over these a pile of fire wood (southern
pine) two feet thick, and then on this the
phosphatic rock is tumbled from the bar-
rows above until it reaches ten to twelve
feet thick, about 400 tons to a kiln, l'ho
moss then being ignited from the flues,
burns slowly, and when consumed the
moisture of the pile is driven off, and the
rock is ready for shipment and sale to the
fertilizer establishments, which, by pro-
cesses peculiar to each, treat it with sul-
phuric acid to free or to make more solu-
ble the phosphori • acid it contains. It is
then ready for use by the planter.
The two establishments operated by
this company produce 125,000 tons of the
rock annually. The proiit is somewhere
about 20 per cent, on the capital invested.
The limit of production is only bounded
bv the demand. The prices rango from
$7 per ton to (now) about 04 per ton. An-
alysis of the washed rock shows: Dirt,
1 to 3 per cent; silica, in form of coarse
whito sand, 1:3 to 15 per ceut.: lime, 4t
per cent.; phosphoric acid, 27to"0 per
cent. The color of tbia curious deposit is
from a crcam yellow to course broivn
orange, forming irregular concretions. Its
source is evidently from the marine ani-
mal life, which in former geological ages
abounded in this then shallow sea. The
fossilized vertebra and teeth of fish and
some animals abound in it. 1 gathered
triangular teeth of sharks measuring four
inches on each side, indicating monsters
of that period that must have been whale-
Ike in size. These teeth are as perfect as
when shed, highly polished, with razor-
like, sharp edges finely serrated.
The discovery and development of these
riches occurred soon after the war, and
afforded the impoverished people a source
of income aud wealth that proved to be
more valuable than gold mines. Negro
laborers aro employed entirely, and are
found of late years tractable, industri es,
and work to the entire satisfaction of their
employers when treated justly and with
consideration. There are seven large
mines in this region, the output of which
goes largely to Europe. Other deposits
uro underwater and are dredged for, Our
otherwise aro treated as arc those of the
dry diggings —Charleston (S. C.) Cor. De-
troit Free Pres3.
Bargains.
IN
SEWING
MACHINES,
And
Sewing machine re
pair work a specialty
Emerson & Berrien,
EL PASO, TEXAS
Mattresses and Curtains made to ordor. Prices lower than elsewhere Largest
Stock in the Southwest. Determined toseil.
KERN,
WATCHES, GOLD and
SILVERWARE.
the
DIAMONDS and
PRECIOUS STONES.
JEWELER
B. SOHUSTER * CO.
Kxamine tur 8ample Rooms of
holesale Dry Goods.
ke largest sad most variedstock In tha southwest st Bed Roefc Prices
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Lost His Dinner.
Mr. W. A. Smith, in bis "Benderloch,"
relates the following encounter between a
large earth worm and a very hungry frog:
The frog mad* repeated an t desperate
efforts to swallow the worm l.y great
gulps, the worm taking advantage of tho
periodically relaxed hold to withdraw its
already engulfed end as far as possible.
After a lengthened struggle the half
suffocated frog had managed to gorge
about one-half tho wriggling and strug-
gling creature, when the latter reached
the stem of a rosebush, despite the stren-
uous endeavor of the frog to prevent it.
No sooner had tho worm readied this
than, using it ns tv point of support, i<
carefully and gradually wound itself
around it until it succeeded in withdraw-
ing its wliol- length from tho "living
tomb" and coiling itself iu safety round
the stem;
Froggy sat still for some seconds, dis-
turbed in its mind and its interior, and
then hopped disconsolately away.
The Bank «.f England.
Tho Dank, of England doors aro now so
finely balanced that a clerk, by pressing a
knob under his desk, can close tho outer
doors instantly, aud they cannot be opened
again except by special process. This is
done to prevent tho during and iugenious
unemployed of the metropolis from rob-
bing tho bank. Tho bullion department
of this and other banks are nightly sub-
merged several feet in water by tho action
of tho machinery. In some batiks the bul-
lion department is connected with the
manager's sleeping room, and an entrance
cannot be effected without shooting a bolt
in the dormitory, which in turn sets in
motion an alarm. If a visitor during the
day should happen to knock off one from
a pile of lmlf sovereigns the whole pile
would disappear, a pool of water taking
its place.—New York Sun,
The Great Popular Route
-BETWEEN-
The Eaststhe West
The Itlble and Nowspapers.
A clergyman of South Norwalk, Conn.,
recently preached a sermon in which he
compared the newspaper with the Bible.
The following pussago is peculiarly strik-
ing: "The Bible's criminal news does not
differ much from that which we may read
to-morrow. It coutains no display head
lines, yet it records in tho same realistic
way a murder, such as that of Abel, or a
suicide like that of Samson, or Abime-
lech, or Saul, or Saul's armor bearer, or
Ahithophel. Narrutlvcs of thefts and rob-
beries are scattered through its pages, ac-
counts of family qnafrcl* and separations
for cause."—Chicago Herald.
Short Line to Now Orleans
-and all points
Favsrite Line to the North, East and Southeast
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars
•Daily Brtwmk—
St Lonis and Dallas, Ft. Worth, El Pmo
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and San Francisco, Cal.
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Marshall&NewOrleans
WITHOUT CHANGE!
Solid Trains From El Paso to St. Louis.
Fast Time, First-Class Equipment, Sure Connection
See that your tickets read via Texas aud Pacific Railway
For Maps, Time Tables, Tickets, Rates and all required
information , call on or address any of the Ticket Agents or
H. C. Archer Traveling Passenger Agent.
D.R.* Williams, Trav. Pass. Fr't. Agt.,El Paso, Texas
jno. A. Grant, B. W. McCullough,
Gsneral Manager, Gen. Pass & Ti't Ag-'t
Dallas, Te*as,
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El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Eighth Year, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1888, newspaper, January 19, 1888; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth501749/m1/3/?q=Great+Depression+in+Texas: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.