Mystery Of The Oyster Bed

One of the greatest natural curiosities in the world is the Texas oyster bed. This bed extends across the en tire state f rom south to north, and haslain enough to become stratified. The shells are soft when first taken out, but harden upon exposure to the atmosphere. At Henrietta, in the Panhandle, a number of beautiful building-s have been constructed of this material. At Weatherford and San Antonio shell roads have been made. The oysters embrace several species long since extinct, and while geologists agree that Texas must at one time have been at the bottom of the g-ulf of Mexico, they are at a loss to account for the presence of that oyster bank, tliere being none found east or west of the strot.