Show HIGHEST POINT IN TEXAS popular impression places the great of in the list of plains states probably because of the extensive along tho gu coast from beaumont to and equally well known llano ot the so called panhandle says a bulletin Is by tao geological survey it Is not so generally realized that another of tha state IB so high and rugged that the old lono star republic may well bom of being almost a part of of the continent thle Is the sparsely settled aal region here arc the mountains livermore Liver moro peak tha chanall Chan tho and ilio glistening white peake of sierra nineva for au of thorn many belova aws have been published but the figure were determined either by guess or by a silently more benned moans tho aneroid barometer and the question as to which Is the highest 0 tho towering lelaa haa until lately that the honar would rest uio guadalupe mountains a timber capped ranga in taft northern part of V vw county not tar row the now mexican boundary alno haa long deew probable in describing theise rooert T hill tu his monumental tre attao on the teals region pronounced them the highest in iha state notwithstanding an error or nearly a thousand beef in hla pub used an error resulting roni the uncertain aneroid hl abate was correct during the summer of wa while van county was feln mapped by Q the states geological survey careful ob wore made to qt th quadalupe lange the work was conducted by mi arthur otilea who has recently worded aut ills frejd and haa determined tho fl lahet point in alg native state the elevation Is teet above the sa and the peak the hibbet in tra is called by the mexicans el capdau |