OUR BUILDING STONE SUPPLY. We have received from Mr. George P. Merrill of Washington D. C. a valuable article upon the above subject from which we derive the following. The article in full will appear in an early issue of the That upward of $25000000 is invested in the stone quarries of the United States is doubtless scarcely realized by the majority of persons. But from the tenth census it ap pears that during the year ending May 31 1880 there were in active operation in the United States 1525 quarries of building and orna metal stones of all kinds represent ing an invested capital of $25415
OUR BUILDING STONE SUPPLY. We have received from Mr. George P. Merrill of Washington D. C. a valuable article upon the above subject from which we derive the following. The article in full will appear in an early issue of the That upward of $25000000 is invested in the stone quarries of the United States is doubtless scarcely realized by the majority of persons. But from the tenth census it ap pears that during the year ending May 31 1880 there were in active operation in the United States 1525 quarries of building and orna metal stones of all kinds represent ing an invested capital of $25415 497 and giving employment during the busy season to upward of 40000 men. The total product of the combined quarries was 5380133 cubic feet valued in the rough at $18365065. years the chief stone used in the vicinity for foundations steps and like purposes. Early in the present century however granite began to be brought into the city from Chelmsford or Westford (Hitchcock says the latter) and stone build ings became more common. In 1818-19 stone from the same source was also shipped to Savan nah Ga. for the construction of a church at that place but this also was obtained largely from bowl ders and such a thing as a perma nent quarry systematically worked was almost unknown. The demand for large quantities of stone for the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument caused the opening of extensive quarries in Quincy in 1825 and the construc tion of what has been called the first railway in America to trans port the quarried material. From this date the development of the quarrying industry has gone on constantly and rapidly. this country probably more on account of their ready accessibility than from any desire on the part of the people for so refractory a material the matters of transportation controlling items in deciding what substances were to be employed. As early as 1650 a building long known as the 'stone house of Deacon John Phillips' was erected in Boston from rough stone
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