. Utah: her cities, towns and resources. Together with a condensed but comprehensive account of her financial, commercial, manufacturing, mining and agricultural enterprises, her educational, religious and social advantages, her progress and population in the past, and possibilities for the future /edited and published by Manly . the line of the R. (,. \V. Railway, near the headof Price River, about twenty miles east of the summit of theWasatch Mountains. When first quarried, this stone has afaint heliotrope tinge, which it soon loses and becomes a deli-cate gray. It also increases in hardness
. Utah: her cities, towns and resources. Together with a condensed but comprehensive account of her financial, commercial, manufacturing, mining and agricultural enterprises, her educational, religious and social advantages, her progress and population in the past, and possibilities for the future /edited and published by Manly . the line of the R. (,. \V. Railway, near the headof Price River, about twenty miles east of the summit of theWasatch Mountains. When first quarried, this stone has afaint heliotrope tinge, which it soon loses and becomes a deli-cate gray. It also increases in hardness, and after a shorttime, resists the weather very well. It takes the most delicatecarving very easily, and taken all together, is the most popu-lar sandstone that we have. It is complementary in color tothe diamond stone, and the two work together with splendideffect. These two quarries are operated by one company,who keep them going nearly all the year round, employing aforce of men, and doing a great swinging business. Parties identified with the Mountain Stone Company art-opening up a quarry adjoining that of the Kyune, whichpromises to equal it in every respect. At the latest report thiscompany was purchasing improved machinery for the systematic development of these new quarries with a view to large-export 28 ■
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