Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — The Value Of the Turquois. [ARTICLE]

The Value Of the Turquois.

Tlio most Important precious stono of the United States, commercially speaking, Is turqnois. In 1891 tlicro was mined of it in this country $130,000 worth; in 1892, $173,000 worth; in 1893, $143,000 worth. Immense deposits of it, some of which were worked anciently by the Indians, have been found in Arizona and _Xcw Mexico. Recently a new mine was discovered in Texas, to the north of El Paso. Whereas the aborigines, lon&*before the first coming of the wli'.t? man, took out the turquols by the crudest methods, building.. fires*, against the rocks to crack them, the deposits to-day are attacked on scientific principles and are made to yield stones equal to the finest Persian. Gems up to GO carats weight and valued at $4,000 each have been cut from them. A grent udvautnge,whicli they have over most lmported turfjnols Is that they do not ehangc color. Owing to the stringency of the times, however, the output of tuhpiols in this country In 1594 was worth only $30,000. The mosquitoes of the world are believed to number .about 150 species. They attain their greatest size in tho tropics, but nowhere are they more numerous o» bloodthirsty than in the far North, as in Alaska, during the brief summer of those regions.