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bed rock it is believed water can be obtained at moderate depths over a wide extent of Country.

   The limestone frequently outcrops and is exposed over considerable surface.  It also forms the floor and walls of numerous dry arroyos and at such places in the vicinity of traveled roads - tanks could easily be constructed to retain the drainage of the Country.   A few tanks built in this manner would prove of great value troops government and the ?wagon? trains which are now obliged to travel in dry weather in ? prairie from 30 to 60 miles without meeting with permanent water.

   There is very little timber found in Western Texas and supplies of lumber for building purposes are from necessity transported from the Eastern & even other sections of the State - The Streams as a usual thing are fringed with a growth of Pecan - oak - Elm - Huckleberry three indecipherable words  Live oak trees - the Mesquite grows, etc. etc.