The information contained in this circular was gathered by a unit of the WPA Mineral Resources Survey of Texas, a project sponsored by The University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology. The purpose of this survey is to assemble information concerning mineral products and to gather other geologic data and make it available to the public. With this information in the hands of the public, it is reasonable to suppose that industries of value to the State may be developed. The following report is based on work done in Lee County by Work Project No.
The production of peat as a general soil conditioner has recently become a potentially valuable small industry for Texas and surely a new one. The credit for realizing the possibilities and need of peat in Texas perhaps should go to Messrs. Joiner, B. P. Atkinson, and Sanquinet, who began production of peat on a small scale near Lexington, Lee County, Texas, in 1940. Since the year of first production, Mr. Atkinson has discovered many hundreds of acres of peat heretofore unnoticed, and several bogs have been leased for commercial production.
In quarrying granite, a great deal of material is handled which is below the proper specifications for dimension stone, either because of size, incipient flaws, or discoloration. This material constitutes the grout and is thrown aside. In the past, there has been no market for this other than locally due to shipping costs, and indeed it has often been an encumbrance at the quarries. The use of a great deal of this waste, properly ground and graded, is not new, but it is only recently that a plant has been established in Texas.
The information contained in this circular was gathered by a unit of the WPA Mineralogical Survey of Texas, a project sponsored by The University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology. The purpose of this survey is to assemble information concerning mineral products and to gather other geologic data and make it available to the public. With this information in the hands of the public, it is reasonable to suppose that industries of value to the State may be developed. The following report is based on work done in Houston County by Work Project No. 17743, from April 7, 1941, to date.
