The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-09
GEORGIA MARBLE.
THE LARGEST QUARRY IN THE
WORLD.

WV ~OSo N%AA 60O0N % uAl
mile wide. 1t has been tested wit
. diamond drill $50 feet, and dis
. plays four kinds of marble. Tn
creole, that is dark with whit,
streaks; the Cherokee, that is light
er colored, and the Etowah, that il
: flesh-colored, and the white marble
Soon after the details of the lease
had beeu arranged, the Georgia
Marble company commenced to pre-,
pare to develop these quarries
They have been four years getting
ready, and while this has been 60
ing on they have had agents show
ing samples and building up a de-
mand for the marble in the differ
ent markets of America.
They have constructed three large
mills for saving the marble blocks,
and now have running thirty-four
gangs of saws that run from twelve
O'Clock Monday morning until II
o'clock Saturday night. They run
night and day between these hours
without stopping. They have elev-
en- channeling machines that cut
the marble in the quarries, two dia-
mond drills and FIVE steel drills. all
run by steam. They have construct
ed four immense steam derricks that
are capable of moving a block of
marble weighing twenty-five tons,
as easy as man can move "a brick
the same distance. They have con-
structed an immense traveller that
carries these blocks from the quar-
ries to the saws wherever they want
II placed. They have built SIX miles
Of railroad. They employ about two
hundred hands and the bulk OF the
work L done BY machinery that
works automatic Ii requires TWEEN
y stationary steam engines 10 do
the Tsr9Ous work required q them.
md une q then Is as large As any
Ii the stale.
The marble i cut ont II great
blocks weighing IRON ten 1o-twenty
tons, and placed Oh cars y be ship
ped To Chicago, Nelson, Marietta
Indianapolis, 81. Louis. Cincinnati
OF the many places where this mar
bic is new used, or il il carried I
: Inc saws where il is made into ii
ling, stock or monuments for furni
1ure or for the various uses 70
which Il Is required.
When il is known that one hun
bred feet square Of this marble bed
one hundred feet deep, will max
one million cubic feet of marble, i
. will be understood how immens
, the value of this valley is. TIL
! present state capitol will not con
sumo over one hundred and fft
. cubic feet of stone. So it will b
seen that there is marble enough il
this valley to build every city il
America in marble and then hav
enough to pave the streets. Tn
largest mill was finished in Jun
: last, and is now working away nigh
and day preparing the marble 70
+ the markets of the world. The
! are shipping daily two carloads q
marble to Chicago, and the quar-
ries yield about fifteen carloads
p day. At Nelson, three miles away
, Mr.. Duer has constructed a splen
! did mill for finishing up marble
? He makes speciality of monument
al work and fine nantes, and mar
, bic for furniture. He obtains hi
supply of marble from the Georges
+ Marble company.
They have some of the most skill
ed marble cutters in America i,
these works, and are now dom.
some very fine work-one mantl,
piece that will cost twenty-five hun
dred dollars. The American Mar
BILE company, at Marietta, is a NOR,
extensive mill on the same line
Here they do elegant turning an,
, scroll work-prepare wainscotting
and, in fact, are using marble yer,
much like some of our planning mill
do plank. The work turned out b,
these mills are the finest ever don,
anywhere. They have machiner,
= covered with patents that cannot b.
l DUPLICATED by other mills and homo