Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1916 — POKER CHIPS RUNNING SHORT [ARTICLE]

POKER CHIPS RUNNING SHORT

Card Players May Get Relief Through Discovery of Large Deposit of Barite In Texas.

Llano, Tex. —It has been several years since open gambling was allowed In Texas. Even poker playing is becoming an almost lost art. Few people realize that there now exists an unprecedented shortage, of poker

chips, due to the war across the seas. The knowledge of this threatened crisis has caused a demand for the -mineral known as barite. This fact caused a search for barite to be instituted here, with the result that a large deposit of the metal has just been discovered ten miles north of town. The poker chip supply will soon be replenished from this new source of raw material.,