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Title: Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Benton, F(rank) Weber, 1855- (from old catalog) Beach, Edgar R., (from old catalog) jt. author
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Publisher: St. Louis, Benton, Beach & Daniels
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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erior flavor and equal,for all purposes, to some cultivated varieties. Wild cherry, blackhaw, and large and small red haw, persimmon, wild mulberry andhackberry grow in abundance on trees from ic to 50 feet inheight. The wild strawberries, blackberries and dewberries areequal, in all respects, to the best in cultivation, and when cul-tivated attain a degree of pertection unsurpassed. Dwarf bushwhortleberries grow in the eastern part of the county and yieldwell developed fruit of rich flavor. The may pop and mandrakegrow everywhere in the woodlands and yield delicious fruit.Virginia snake root and stillingia, of great medicinal value, thewild indigo plant, used for dyeing cloth, and wild hemp may befound in nearly every portion of the county. Wild flax formerlygrew here in great abundance, but has almost entirely disap-peared. Castor beans are also indigenous to the soil and springup spontaneously in abandoned fields. MINEROLOGY. The fine building stone of Lamar county deserves special
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PHYSICIANS OF PARIS.). DK. J. R. J ONUS. 2. DR. J. M. STEPHENa. 4. dr. leo Harrison. 5. dk, j. w. hauen. e. 3. DR. W. E. DAILEYDR. W. P. THATCHER PARIS, AJND LAMAR COUNTY. 51 mention. Beginning at a point three miles south of Pans andextending to the Sulphur, frequently near the surface and inquantity sufficient to meet all requirements for many generations,is a light grey (sometimes light yellow) magnesian limestone,which, when first quarried may be easily cut with a saw andsmoothed with a carpenters plane, without injury to the tools.It is susceptible of a very fine finish, and in early times was usedfor torhostones. Though very soft when quarried, on exposureto tiie atmosphere it oxidizes and becomes very hard and shrinksperceptibly like wood in the process of seasoning. being easilycut, of a very attractive and uniform color, and of unquestionabledurability, it is extensively used in the ornamentation of brickbuildings and for windo v and door sills, steps and entire outerwalls. I

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