30 SUNDAY, «AN ANTONIO LIQHT MARCH 26, 1911. "OUR HOUSE IS NOT SO BIG AS PAPA'S Close in Lots [SO Within walking distance of Alamo Plaza; located In the healthiest part of • AND MAMMA'S BUT IT'S JUST AS GOOD' city. Have Just spent a great deal of money preparing these lots for tha market and am offering you the best proposition, on the market today In the lot line. Special prices made this week to home builders. Playhouse Just Like Grownup Residence Is Property of FRONTING Frost Children Dr. Phillips of University Enumerates Wonder- NORTH NEW BRAUNFELS AVB.', PASO HONDO,' CENTER, STATE and EAST CROCKETT STREETS. SS COMPLETELY FURNISHED ful Riches In Country to Be Tra- versed By New Road. LOCATED Each Child Has Room and Lit- One block of East Commerce street and one block from car line; 14 blocks from Joske's store and three blocks from public school. City water, grad- tle Kitchen Is Fitted With, BY WILLIAM B. PHILLIPS ed streets. Free original abstract with each lot. " •.."•• .Range and Table (Director Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas.) The material resources of the Country between San Antonio and One cf the most beautiful of the $45 to $75 p«w homes In San Antonio is that Brownsville, to be traversed by the new railroad;'are conveniently mroed by T. C. Frost, located in the Cash payment down, balance $15 monthly, for a short time only; take ad- brow of the hill on San Pedro avenue grouped'under the following heads: vantage of these terras and buy a lot at once. and commanding a fine view of the Agricultural, including truck farming. city. The houisaf, a two-story and WM. F. SCHUTZ, Sole Agent .basement stone structure, cost in the Mining, including lignite and clay. ./• neighborhood of $75,000 to build and Roome 4 and 5 Riverside Bids:. 101 West Commerce St. linslde and out is one of the most Stock raising. Jbandsoraely appointed residences in Petroleum, including also natural gas. the cits'. dinary fuel, under steam boilers, etc, more fthan 120,000,<«(0 ban-els)» of The grounds have "been terraced Artesian and other water supplies. - when lignite is converted- into gas petroleum. South of San Antonio, and make a pretty site for the elegant It forms one of the best and cheapest from fifteen to twenty-five miles, and home. The lot is spacious and on the Of these the water supply is by far and uc*ji<mi UIH.LKI-I-AIBerialg withiwiimn thimis area fuels known. In some-large establish- along the Medina river, is a natural ,ireai- portion of it is located a noyelty the most important, for it will deter- anfi in Nueces county there is report- •mants in this-state it has been the gas field which Is most promising-. iin houses. It Is the miniature resi- mine the development of the region ed a bed of kaolin which would rival practice to secure a hbrse-'power of Heavy pressures have been observed ' deuce of Mr. Frc-st's two children Lil- from any point,of view. If abundant the famous tedwards county kaolin, energy from 2 1-2 pounds of lignite at more^than one locality and. the en- ilie Bealle Frost and Thomas Clay- and good water' cannot be secured it I than which there is none better. The costing $1.26 -a ton delivered. This tire district appears to be worthy Of (botmie Frost Jr. As little Miss Frost is almost useless to 'expect, perma- deposit of fine white" clay -which ex-. lacks but little of the results ob- the fullest investigation. There - are \Bays: "Our house is not so big as nent settlement oc progressive devel- tends for so great'-a distance through tained from the use of natural gas now some sixteen, Texas cities and Ipap&'s aod mamma's but it's just as opment. It is the one thing upon '•he state in a general northeast and at 20 cents a thousand cubic feet. towns supplied with natural gas and igood." And just as good it is for which the greatest stress is to be laid. southwest direction, crosses the line the price, per thousand cubic feet, every detail of a grownup folks' house In addition, there are valuable by- varies from T to 50 cents. Natural is worked out in the little play house The opening of that region to, Settle- of this road and is well developed products to be obtained from lignite, Playhouse of the two little Frost children. ment "will depend upon the supply of along the San Miguel river. , gas is an ideal fuel and would be >t the children. Its doors open just good water, whether artesian or other- such as tar (with its light oils) and especially well adapted for use -'.in Clays for common briolc, sewer ammoniacal liquor. From this liquor San Antonio, both for heating and' wise. If this cannot be secured agri- pipe, tiling and pottery abound. Tha are derived the various compounds of cultural activities will languish, min- total value of the clay products in ammonia, including anhydrous am- lighting. ng cannot be undertaken and perma- Texas now exceeds $30,000,000, and monia, used in nearly every ice fac- It may well fee doubted whether nent settlement will be impossible. It we have here almost every kind tory in the country. there is another stretch of country in particularly 'fortunate that the material, from ordinary red clay to route of'the proposed road traverses the finest kaolin. The possibilities for petroleum and Tetocas which affords such a variety what is, perhaps, one of the greatest natural gas are well worth attention. of natural resources as the regipn artesian water belts in the state. The , Beds of lignite are known to exist This region lies 'within the • coastal between San Antonio and Browns- counties that lie immediately south along the San Miguel river and plain,, which extends.from Beaumont ville, in farming, stock-raising, clays a little east from San Antonio, are all elsewhere within the area tapped by to Brownsville Iri-S great curve and and lignites, petroleum and natural "Within this area and systematic bor- this road. Aside from its nse as or- which has produced, up to this \tlme, ng'would, I. think, reveal very large :upplies of excellent.water. It is not £> be expected .that every bore-hole vill find this 'water nor that every ell will furnish good water. Experi- nce is contrary to this view, but at he same time this entire area of 300 iles by-fifty miles, on either side f the route, lies fully within the ar- esian water belt of the coastal plain, 'his gives an area of 15,000 square elites within which to expect, with easonable confidence, very consid- rable supplies of good water, within depth of 800 to 1200 feet below the urflaoe. In some favored localities he depth to good water will probably e less than 800 feet. The quality of le water cannot be foretold with so uch confidence, but it is likely that y far the greatest number of -wells afford water of , exceptional uality. 120, The collection and digestion of all ossihie data bearing on this subject 100 feet In s one of the things to be undertaken y the preliminary survey, for there length to id- re but few published records availa- le. From the southern part of Bexar BEAUTTFtTD HOME OF T. C. FROST ON SAJI PEDRO HEED. ounty to" the northern part of Starr leys. like real doors, Its windows which do self. Being a very domesticated lit-Thomas Clayboume Jr. is part owner ounty the living streams are the the same are of glass. It has Its own tle woman Lillian Bealle. first wanted of the little play house too, and a an Antonio and the Medina rivers llttls stove and beds and other fur- to, ,show the , reporter. through her visit had to_ be made to his apartment nd the net-work of smaller streams nishings of a grOvrnup"re'sidence and kitchen, which is fitted up with" a: and"/see' how a'rdal boy lives. First mt comprise- the drainage area of many are the happy hours spent In It miniature range, cook tabld and all though she had to see his books, "not he Nueces river. Below the Nneces by the two children and their play- that is essential to a real kitchen. "No picture books but real ones filled with nd forming a different water-shed mates. I don't make cake and pies y.qt," she real reading, please!" His writing desk re tho streams that make their way First Step toward doing this and to be abso- A,Light reporter had the pleasure exclaimed, "I just make believe that and reading table were most conspicu- nto Baffin Bay, below Kingsville. - • i * .'. • 'of being escorted through this minia- I do. But, you know," she whispered ous as being most beautiful and in- There are three different water- ture house by Miss Lillian Bealle her- shly,"I bring them from mamma's big teresting, and play no- small part in heds between San Antonio and the kitchen and eat them out here and his little home, still there was -evi- orthern part of Starr county; the lutely Safe and Right, is to Buy your Lot or Lots in they are Just like I would make" toe, dence of the real boy and boy—world an Antonio-Medina, the water from CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY. don't you think?" there—guns, fishing tackle, miniature hich goes into San Antonio bay; the After thorough inspection of her saddle, riding crops and boots.