. The Mining industry in Quebec . buildingmaterials will be wanted for factories, for dwellings and forcompleting municipal works. There is no exageration in sayingthat we shall soon see in our quarries the same intense activitythat reigned in 1911-13. In view of this development and to encourage builders toseek in the Province the materials they will need, the followingreview has been prepared in a concise form. Many of the detailsof economic importance have had to be left out. The Province ofQuebec can produce all the varieties of buildings and ornamentalstones that it may need. It is not ne
. The Mining industry in Quebec . buildingmaterials will be wanted for factories, for dwellings and forcompleting municipal works. There is no exageration in sayingthat we shall soon see in our quarries the same intense activitythat reigned in 1911-13. In view of this development and to encourage builders toseek in the Province the materials they will need, the followingreview has been prepared in a concise form. Many of the detailsof economic importance have had to be left out. The Province ofQuebec can produce all the varieties of buildings and ornamentalstones that it may need. It is not necessary to seek for imported 74 MINING OPERATIONS IN articles or artificial materials. The slate quarries, clay pits,sandstone, granite, marble, limestone quarries, lime kilns andcement factories can supply all the necessary materials for build-ing houses, factories and edifices suitable for commerce and finan-ce. Table of statistics for quarries from 1909 to 1921, with oppositethe value of new buildings in the province of qcebec. LI31E8TONE The working of the limestone beds in the Province of Que-bec is an important industry. In 1920 the production rose tonearly a million tons the value of which at the quarry amountedto the sum of 11,584,310. The year of the greatest productionwas 1913 when the sale of limestone amounted to $1,704,207,As may be seen by the table below, from 1910 to 1913 the valueof the stone extracted was quadrupled : from $157,113 it roseto $1,704,207. During the following years the quarries felt theeffects of the years of the war. It 1918 the value of the produc-tion was only $600,046. Since then there has been a tendency THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 75 to a rise and it is expected that building operations will beaccompanied by operations on a large scale in the quarries. Broken stone is used in building with concrete which hasbeen so much in favour in late years ; before this kind of build-ing came into use a great quantity of limestone in the shape ofdimension b
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