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southern coast country from the drifting sand dunes. As the geologic mapping of various counties progresses it is expected that deposits of glass sand will be found in such counties as Decatur, Weatherford, Hood, Erath, Eastland, Comanche, Callahan, Brown, Coleman, Mills and possibly Lam- pasas. There are at this time two companies in this State producing window glass and one bottle glass.
Iron Ore. Valuable iron ore deposits are found in east and northeast Texas. These deposits are of excellent character, the ore containing from 55 to 57 per cent metallic ore. The area that contains workable ore beds is about 1200 square miles, the principal deposits being found in eleven counties. In a bulletin published by the University of Texas, in 1916, it is estimated that up to that time about $3,000,000 worth of pig iron. had been produced in the State. At the present time there are ten firms in the State interested in iron ore properties. Of this number only one is known to have produced in 1919, shipping considerable quantities of ore to Alabama. It is not possible to make a conservative estimate of the amount of good grade brown ore to be had, but it is said to be between 600,000,000 to 1,000,000,- 000 tons.
Quicksilver. Principal deposits of quicksilver in this State are to be found in Brewster County. Real possibilities in developing this mineral have hardly been touched. The ore has been found in an area of about thirty miles from east to west and twenty miles from north to south. In 1917 10,791 flasks, valued at $1,136,000, were produced in Texas.
Cement. All the materials essential to the manufacture of Portland cement are found in the regions around Dallas, Sher- man and San Antonio. There are eight cement companies in Texas putting out large production. Some of the highest grade cement in the world is produced in Texas. Opportunity for further devel- opment of this industry is very attractive, especially when the large appropriations that have been made for road develop- ment and the enormous amount of con- struction work being Cone in the State are taken into consideration.
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CAPT. JAMES GARITTY Capitalist President of the First National Bank Corsicana
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J. A. THOMPSON Capitalist President Corsicana National Bank Corsicana
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H. A. WROE President American National Bank Austin
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GEORGE W. LITTLEFIELD Capitalist and Philanthropist Chairman of the Board of Directors, American National Bank Extensive Interests in Cattle and Ranches Austin
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Services Rendered by the Hon. John Henry Kirby
AS LUMBER ADMINISTRATOR IN THE WORLD WAR
ON April 27, 1917, Mr. Kirby received a tele- gram from Mr. B. M. Baruch, at Washing- ton, containing the wish of the President that he should serve as a member of the Raw Mate- rials Committee of the Counsel of National De- fense. He answered that he would be glad to render any service in his power, and would leave at once, arriving in Washington the fol- lowing Monday morning. He closed his desk and left for Washington and served through- out the period when the nation was mobilizing all industries as an effective war measure. He served during the period when the lumber in- dustry, acting under the direction of the Lum- ber Committee of the Counsel of National De- fense, of which Mr. Kirby was a member, ren- dered such conspicuous and exceptional service in building cantonments and other plants nec- essary for the successful conduct of the war.
In May, 1917, he was unanimously chosen President of the National Lumber Manufactur- ers Association, composed of all the lumber manufacturing associations in the United States, regardless of species of wood production in which they are engaged. He was chosen be- cause of his power of organization and capaci- ty for administration. Under his leadership the war work of these industries was conducted in a most orderly way and in a manner in the highest degree satisfactory and acceptable to the Government.
In March, 1918, he was requested by Chair- man Edward N. Hurley, of the United States Shipping Board, to accept the duties of Lum- ber Administrator for the South for the pur- pose of furnishing to the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration, engaged in building boats for the United States Shipping Board, timbers and other material of wood so much needed in that construction. At this time German fright- fulness through the cruel and diabolical use of the submarine was sinking the shipping of all Nations more rapidly than the tonnage could be produced and there was great anxiety in the United States Shipping Board as well as in all America. Every energy, resource and power of this Government was then being devoted to a shipbuilding program. Thousands of con- tracts for wooden ships had been made both on the Atlantic and Pacific, as well as on the Gulf,
and shipbuilders were complaining that the ma- terial was not reaching them expeditiously. In this crisis Mr. Hurley turned to Mr. Kirby with request that he perform this very patriotic duty. Mr. Kirby, who was then in Washington, promptly accepted and immediately returned to the South for the purpose of entering upon the duties of the position. He returned to his home in Houston for one day and then went direct to New Orleans where, on March 21st, he took charge of the timber section of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He called to his assistance twenty-one practical lumbermen from all of the lumber-producing States of the South, who joined him in New Orleans and without pay served the government with such efficiency that within five days from the time he took charge of this office every requirement of every shipyard on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast, from New Hampshire to Texas, was filled or the ma- terial required was in transit.
Mr. Kirby remained continuously on the job in New Orleans from March 21st until the fol- lowing August and during that period the great wood ship building program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation was not halted a minute for lack of timber supplies, and at the conclusion of his services there was sufficient timber in the government yards at points where required to build all the ships under contract.
Having finished his tasks there was no need that he should serve longer and on August 23, Mr. Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, wrote him from Philadelphia thanking him for his ser- vices in these words:
"I am writing this letter to express to you my sincere thanks and appreciation of the splen- did and faithful services which you rendered to us as Lumber Administrator. I am quite sure the work which you did was based on purely patriotic motives and was, no doubt, at a considerable sacrifice of your own interests. We are deeply grateful for your untiring ef- forts which were of the greatest help to us when most needed. Again thanking you and with kindest regards, I am
Very truly yours,
CHARLES M. SCHWAB, Director General.
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JOHN HENRY KIRBY Capitalist Lumber and Banking Houston
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JESSE H. JONES Houston
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HENRY SAMUEL FOX, JR. Capitalist President of the Houston National Exchange Bank Houston
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D. C. GIDDINGS Capitalist President Giddings and Giddings, Bankers Brenham
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MAJOR R. C. ROBERDEAU Vice President, The American National Bank Austin
L. J. SCHNEIDER Vice President, The American National Bank Austin
L. D. WILLIAMS Cashier, The American National Bank Austin
HERMAN PFAEFLIN Assistant Cashier, The American National Bank Austin
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FERDINAND HERFF President San Antonio National Bank San Antonio
A. N. GREEN President, First National Bank of Cameron Cameron
EDWARD ROTAN Capitalist Chairman of the Board of Directors First National Bank Waco
W. L. HERFF President San Antonio Loan & Trust Co. San Antonio
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JUDGE O. E. DUNLAP
Ex-President Texas Bankers' Association President Citizens National Bank, Etc. Waxahachie
DR. FRERERICK TERRELL President, City National Bank San Antonio
J. K. BERETTA President National Bank of Commerce San Antonio
H. A. KELLING Cashier, Washington County State Bank Brenham
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COL. OSCAR EDWIN ROBERTS Colonel 144th Infantry, A. E. F. Awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government. President First State Bank and Trust Company Attorney at Law Taylor
E. L. WOMACK Vice-President and Cashier First State Bank & Trust Co. Taylor
CAPT D. C. GIDDINGS, JR. Vice-President Giddings & Giddings, Bankers Director, Brenham Compress Oil & Manufacturing Co. Brenham
CAPT. C. H. BOOTH Captain Field Artillery A-D-C. in A. E. F. Banker Taylor
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W. E. JOHNSON President National Exchange Insurance and Trust Company President McLennan County Abstract Company, Etc. Sole Owner of the United States Loan and Investment Company Waco
MRS. J. A. JACKSON Advertising-Manager, The American Na- tional Bank Austin
COL. P. L. DOWNS Active Vice President First National Bank Temple
H. C. GLENN President Temple Trust Company Temple
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W. W. WISWELL Treasurer and General Manager Standard Blue Book Publications San Antonio
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A. J. PEELER Founder and President of the Standard Blue Book Publications. San Antonio
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HISTORIETTE OF TEXAS
BY THE HISTORY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO, Mrs. J. K. Beretta, President
THE history of Texas is unique in many
ways. First, we are the only State which has been under the dominion of six flags; second, we are the only State which has been an independent Repub- lic; third, we are the only State which really has a flag of its own; fourth, only one other State besides Texas (excepting the original colonies) came into the Union without passing the probation stage of being a territory.
The first settlement in Texas was made by LaSalle, in the name of France, early in 1685, on the Gulf coast, being called Fort St. Louis. Two years later the stout- hearted LaSalle was slain by traitorous hands.
During this time Spain became much exercised over the news that France had laid hands upon what Spain considered her territory, for she claimed everything- bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. She sent Captain DeLeon with his Spanish soldiers to oust the French from Fort St. Louis. They, however, found that the colonists, left without a leader, had near- ly all been massacred and the fort had been abandoned. DeLeon, taking pos- session in the name of Spain, it is said, called the country Texas because of the neighboring tribe of friendly Indians- the word Texas, in their tongue, mean- ing friends. Others claim that our name came from the Tehas Indians.
The Spaniards established themselves in Texas and their Franciscan monks founded our wonderful Missions, the most famous being the Alamo, in 1744; San Jose, begun in 1718, and Concepcion, all on the San Antonio River. The two latter were centers of activity for nearly a century.
Being a part of the State of Coahuila, Mexico, Texas passed under the domin- ion of Mexico in 1821, when Mexico es- tablished its independence from Spain.
American colonists filtered in grad- ually and finally became numerous and important. Mexico, becoming alarmed at the increasing numbers of Americans, resolved to crush their rising power. Many battles followed, including the massacre of the Alamo, on March 6th, 1836, and culminating with the victory of the Americans, under General Sam Houston, in the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21st, 1836.
Shortly afterward Texas formally de- clared her independence and establish- ed herself as a republic. Mexico refused to acknowledge the independence of Texas and when, in 1845, the Republic entered the United States as the State of Texas, war between the United States and Mexico resulted.
Texas progressed rapidly until the War Between the States, when it joined the Southern Confederacy in 1861.
Unlike in the other Southern States, the Federal armies did not penetrate the interior and Texas thus escaped the rav- ages and horrors of war, although it did suffer, as did its sister States, during the period of reconstruction after the war.
Those days of trouble and humiliation under military rule passed with the re- tirement of Governor Davis and the election of Governor Coke in 1874, the free choice of the people of Texas. Since that time Texas has become the Em- pire State of the South, greater in pop- ulation and wealth than any of the other Southern States.
To Texas:
Ever-generous Mother of Man, whether under the fleur-de-lis of France, the golden and bloody banner of Spain, the eagle and cactus of Mexico, the lone star of the Texas Republic, the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, or the Stars and Stripes of the Union-glorious in your past history, may you be even greater in the future-Texas, fair Texas!
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L. J. HART Capitalist, Real Estate Operator President San Antonio Hotel Company (operating the Gunter Hotel) President St. Mary's Street Improvement Company President Board of Directors A. and M. College of Texas, Etc. San Antonio
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J. O. MACK President and General Manager of the Mack Manufacturing Company Houston
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J. O. MACK
HOUSTON
Mr. J. O. Mack is President and General Manager of the Mack Manufacturing Company, Macks Street, Houston, Texas. He is a business man of note and an inventor of national reputation.
For the past ten years Mr. Mack has been an oil operator in the gulf coast fields, during which time he was President of the Packard Oil Company and Perry Oil Company of Edgerly, Louisiana, the Vinton Development Company and Gulf Coast Oil Company of Vinton, Louis- iana, General Manager of the Merrimac Oil Company of Sour Lake, Texas.
He has been directly and indirectly connected with many of the best oil operators in the Louisiana and Texas fields, where he could study operation at first hand. The large manufacturing plant of which he is the head, is devoting most of its capacity to manufacturing pat- ented articles developed by him during that time.
Mr. Mack spent several months of the last year of the war in Wash- ington, D. C. and New York City, at the request of the Government, where he developed an invention to be used on the western front. It had the endorsement of the most prominent authorities in this country.
Among the authorities who passed on and recommended its adop- tion by the War Department were some of the leading engineers of this country, together with some sixty United States Senators and Congressmen.
Mr. Mack has letters from Secretary-of-War Baker, William G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the United States, Vice President and General Manager of the Hudson-Manhattan Railway who was the engineer in charge, under Mr. McAdoo, when they built the Hudson River Tunnel; he also built the tunnel at Paris, France. Marshall Foch, General John J. Pershing, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas A. Edi- son, R. A. Bachman, Vice President and General Manager of the Thos. A. Edison Company, and the French, English and Italian ambassadors wrote Mr. Mack personally that they were anxious to see it tried out on the Huns. Mr. Mack met practically all of these men personally and they discussed his patent with him freely at different times and endorsed it to the War Department.
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JOHN H. TOBIN President State Association of Lions Clubs; President Lions Club of Austin Secretary and Treasurer Tobin's Book Store Austin
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M. H. REED Capitalist, Cotton Exporter and Wholesale Dealer in Cedar Timber Austin
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JOHN N. GILBERT Capitalist President Nona Mills Company Limited. Nona Mills Company of Texas Beaumont
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GEORGE W. KIDD, Capitalist Brigadier General Commanding 1st Texas Brigade United States Confederate Veterans Oil, Farming, Cattle and Hotel Interests President Hageman-Kidd Hotel Company Which Operates the Crosby House Beaumont
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J. L. ARLITT Dealer in Municipal Securities Austin
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R. L. BATTE, Capitalist Extensive Owner of Oil Mill and Gin Interests and Farm Lands Cameron
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SAM F. BASHARA President-General Manager Bashara Tool Manufacturing Company Houston
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MANUFACTURING
BY THE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO.
INDUSTRIALLY, Southwest Texas is now demanding the attention of the Nation's most enterprising men. This is chiefly because of its vast undeveloped resources and the practically unlimited opportunities its great territory offers.
ARTICLES MANUFACTURED IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS.
In San Antonio alone, over thirteen hundred different articles are included in the output of its three hundred fac- tories, which distribute more than five million tons of wares over an unusually large territory. Southwest Texas is de- pendent on no one class of industry for its support, but manufactures an unus- ually diversified line of products. Some of the principal articles produced are: Brick, packing house products, dairy products, foundry and machine shop products, automobiles, trucks, tractors, candy, waterproofing materials, belt dressing, jewelry, soft drinks, cottonseed products, soap, cigars, saddlery, chili products, mattresses, vinegar, gasoline and other crude oil products, disinfect- ants, pickles, flour, marble yard prod- ucts, celluloid wares, books, plaster products, planing mill products, optical goods, artificial teeth, toilet prepara- tions, drugs, bakery products, art glass, macaroni and similar foods, packing boxes, cement, electricity and artificial gas, tanks, tents and awnings, engrav- ings, art goods, hollow tile, crushed rock, brooms, asphalt and an endless variety of other high-grade wares.
FUEL.
Oil and lignite are the principle fuels used for manufacturing purposes. Wa- terpower is also developed to a limited extent. Electricity for industrial pur- poses is furnished at reasonable rates in the larger cities, as also is artificial gas, while the greatest lignite deposits in the United States extend throughout the re- gion. Coal of a higher grade is also pro- duced here and is available for those concerns which need it. Natural gas is going to waste in many localities at the rate of millions of cubic feet per day, awaiting the man who can harness and deliver it at reasonable rates to the cities for industrial usage.
MARKET.
Distribution of Southwest Texas man- ufactured products reaches all parts of the United States, and while an enor- mous developed Texas territory also fur- nishes a ready market for these goods, an excellent foreign trade has recently been developed with Mexico, South and Central America, West Indies, Cuba, Italy, France, Great Britain, and Ger- many with the assistance of the Export Trade Bureau of the San Antonio Manu- facturers' Association, which organiza- tion is at all times ready to assist pros- pective Texas shippers.
FACTORIES NEEDED.
It is apparent that there is room for a number of new factories in this fast de- veloping section, such as knitting mills, textile mills, hosiery mills, cooperage works, furniture factories, glove and shoe factories, fruit and vegetable pre- serving plants, fertilizer, floor tile con- cerns, tanneries, pottery and china works, and a number of others.
All factories desiring to locate here can rely on receiving hearty practical co-operation from the rapidly increasing buying public of the great Southwest.
RAW MATERIALS.
Southwest Texas is particularly fortu- nate in possessing a bountiful supply of many high-grade materials. Great quan- tities of the following abound: Glass sand, kaolin, Fuller's earth, limestone, cotton, fire clay, marble, crude oil, build- ing stone, brick and pottery clays, as- phalt, trap rock, also some quicksilver, molybdenum and novaculite. An unlim- ited supply of artesian water is another asset which has attracted a number of industries to this section.
TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation facilities are adequate and satisfactory, being taken care of by fourteen railroads. In Port Aransas, Southwest Texas possesses a rapidly de- veloping ocean outlet of its own, not to mention the excellent available connec- tion facilities with the ports of Galves- ton, Houston, New Orleans, Beaumont, and Texas City, and the border points of entry at Laredo and Eagle Pass.
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JACQUES E. BLEVINS Manufacturer President Southern Motor Manufacturing Association, Ltd. Vice President Breckenridge State Bank & Trust Co., Breckenridge, Texas. Houston
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HARRY L. CARLETON Secretary-Treasurer J. J. Thames Drug Co. Taylor G
O. C. LANG
Active Vice-President and General Man- ager Houston Drug Company (Wholesale) Houston
DOAK C. PROCTOR Secretary-Treasurer Jefferson Drug Com- pany, Wholesale Druggists Beaumont
DWIGHT E. BREED Executive Secretary and Director of the Texas Public Health Association, Etc. Austin
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The Part of the Texas Doctors in the War
BY T. T. JACKSON, M. D., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
President Elect State Medical Association of Texas
To tell what the Texas doctors have done in this war is an impossible task. It would be to ask of the wind that blew through the camps and can- tonments of our army while all slept but the surgeon and the sufferer; it would be to make a witness of the mother and father of the boy who has been brought back to them from the gates of death; to make a witness of the man who bears under his blouse the wound of death; and more, it would be to hear the stories told by the souls of soldiers who sleep under the poppies of France-stories we shall never hear. I can not do this, but there are some facts and some truths ready at hand that may be told.
There was commissioned from Texas the following medical personnel : Army 825
Navy 50
National Guard. 52
Total 927
Added to this should be 142 more rec- ommended for commission at the time of the signing of the armistice. There are about 5000 active practitioners in the State. Texas actually contribut- ed to the war one doctor for every 5.2 men in active medical practice. This is a greater contribution than that of any other profession, ex- cept that of nursing. Late in March of 1918, the officers of the State Medical Association of Texas made a preliminary classification of the doctors of the State, as to their availability for military ser- vice. Later, the Texas Committee of the Committee of American Physicians for Medical Preparedness, under the leadership of Dr. W. B. Russ, began a survey of the profession and secured the detail of Lt. Col. Holman Taylor for this work. After this the Council of National Defense, Medical Section, took over the work of the aforesaid commit- tee. At the urgent solicitation of the Council of National Defense, Medical Section, a more complete survey and
classification of the doctors of Texas was begun in May by the acting Secre- tary, Dr. I. C. Chase, in connection with the State Committee of the Council of National Defense, Medical Section. This was an enormous task thrown upon the central office without any extra com- pensation to the employees of the As- sociation. Biographical data of great value concerning almost every doctor in the State was accumulated and an up-to-date directory was compiled. As this work of final classification was about to begin and the results be for- warded to Washington, on August 15th, Maj. Franklin Martin wired that the central committee of the Council of Na- tional Defense, Medical Section, had been reorganized and would, from Washington, begin a new classification, and urged that complete questionaires from the State, secured on new blanks, be forwarded to Washington within a week. Blanks for this purpose were mailed from Washington and a new or- ganization of county advisers were ap- pointed by Washington authorities. This resulted in the organization of the "Vol- unteer Medical Service Corps," with a new executive committee of the Texas Governing Board of the Volunteer Medi- cal Service Corps." This new Commit- tee began new classifications, but had hardly started its work when the armis- tice was signed. Its work was not com- plete at the time the Volunteer Medical Service Corps was suspended in April.
This was the fourth classification un- dertaken in Texas during the war. Al- though these classifications, for want of a central unified plan of action, seemed abortive, they doubtless awakened a great deal of interest and lead indirect- ly to an increase in applications for commissions. The amount of work vol- untarily contributed by the district su- pervisors, councilors, executive commit- tee and county secretaries, in these sur- veys, can hardly, and probably never will, be appreciated by the mass of the profession.
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