. Cassier's magazine . TATE QUARRY, SHOWING FORMATION OF MARBLE AND BLOCK FOR REMOVAL 144 CASSIERS MAGAZINE back end of the saw the stone is cutin two and the car unloaded, replacedin front of the saw and reloaded. What modern machinery in quar-rying means in saving time and la-bour and in economizing waste may bebetter realized by contrasting Ameri-can methods with one of the oldestquarries of Italy, the centuries ago men were dig- for 2,000 years and, as stated, themining methods are attended withenormous waste, it is known that vastbeds of the marble still exist. Bydigging lo
. Cassier's magazine . TATE QUARRY, SHOWING FORMATION OF MARBLE AND BLOCK FOR REMOVAL 144 CASSIERS MAGAZINE back end of the saw the stone is cutin two and the car unloaded, replacedin front of the saw and reloaded. What modern machinery in quar-rying means in saving time and la-bour and in economizing waste may bebetter realized by contrasting Ameri-can methods with one of the oldestquarries of Italy, the centuries ago men were dig- for 2,000 years and, as stated, themining methods are attended withenormous waste, it is known that vastbeds of the marble still exist. Bydigging longer and longer tunnelsand shafts an inexhaustible supplycan be obtained, for the beds are soextensive that some of the mines areworked at a height of over a mileabove the sea, while many of the. ELECTRIC CHANNELLING MACHINES IN USE IN QUARRIES OF VERMONT MARBLE COMPANY; ONEMACHINE DOES THE WORK OF FIFTY MEN. LEAVING VERY LITTLE WASTE ging out the side of the ApuanMountains, in Italy, for as far backas that time they realized what couldbe done with the marble which com-poses so much of this mountainrange. The mines or quarries areonly within a few square miles ofterritory, but an army of 6,000 menand boys are continually employed,their earnings supporting 100,000 ofthe people of northwestern Italy. Noone knows how much marble is con-tained in this range of Italian moun-tains. Though they have been opened workings are over 2,000 feet abovethe sea. This is a great advantage tothe Italians, however, because meth-ods are still in use in quarrying andgetting out the marble which arehundreds of years old. But littleadvantage has been taken of themodern labour-saving machinery, suchas electric and compressed air drillsand saws, the principal tools beingsteel bars and chisels, mallets
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