The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-06

The stratiHed limestone quarrles have an in
vested capital Of $1.O23843. employing 2.244
men. Eighty -nine firms are engaged in this
industry. and have not yet computed the
average value per cubic foot and the total
value Of their product
The sandstones are reported In bulletin No.
70. Indiana is there credited with having
$169. 225 invested in this industry. producing
1874. AL cubic feet Of stone valued at $43983
Mr.. Porter says it cost 10 cents pcr cubic foot
to quarry It: that 1t sold at Is cents per cubic
foot and yet paid profit Of LII per cent Just
what method he uses In computing profit he
does not state. Possibly he has been trained
by some thrifty Baxter street clothing dealer
who sells "yoost at cosht," and yet grows rich.
He has here neglected an opportunity to gain
shoSins the path q this long sought goal g
struggling thousands who have long and yainly
been forgiven: as It is. he has missed the Oh.
The State report vii! show there was invest
s + ss s Is
81 ona esSt SON
tho entire Investment Mr.. Porters report
shows that this industry. Is carried on at loss.
men could or would SO on year after, year in a
business In which they were constantly losing
money wnen tney are compelled 70 get living
ana pey q A thsr profit derived
To further show the worthlesness Of his re-.
There were twenty-three firms engaged in
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ias Is e tSe nTs
three firms thatwere actually operating In this
III. PSSrter's young man may say these firms
were not in existence. but, as personally Wis:
tied each one Of them, and have the name and
ws ~ sace ms @ haSe
low vocation Tor the money there Is In It.:
they are not phllanthropists, giving their time
happS sneW
something That promises living returns for
with hSvns ssso crying
ite. g59ducing stone valued at $500. at cost
6 9s MI rG s t ;; os Is not
White, the formsr State sooiosists 1t may BE-
thaS ~ P fters y9rpX nan b kfows better
among amor the FOREMOST OF American geoiogists
Ing geSlogists. the students: and the lalty viii
30 lnc!inea 10 peheVe uhem rather han Mr.
South Dakota is credited with having, pro:
duced granite OF the value OF S304673. and
Sioux Falls Ia the LOCALITY. given as the largest
producing centre; This is another .astound-
ing blunder.. for the stone Iuarried there Is a
quartzite, q form Of sandstone hardened by
heat.
Had Mr.. Porter desired correct census he
would have employed experts In the various
lines. men who would have known quartzite
from a granite. ooIitiS from stratiaed lime
dinates, who scarcely seem 70 know blue C clay
grouped the most dissimilihr material TO-
gether In suoh manner that " Is impossible
In many instances to separate them. and called
such work as this census, work 70 answer
for the next ten years the needs OF the legls-
lator. the. statstician.. the. architect. the
engineer. the builder. In fact all who wish to
learn something about stone. its varied forms
bad as this Ia, Mr. Porter has done worse.
He has resorted TO Misrepresentation In order
to serve his masters, the sandstone quarry
men. stating that the Denison Hotel OF this
city 10 built OF berea sandstone Tho stone
used In IL Is o4litic. from Bedford. Ind. "A
letter addressed to any architect OF this city
asking tho kind Of stone used in this building
would have enabled Mr.. Porter TO have told
the truth In this case. but the bulletin is cyl
dence that the truth was the one thing Porter
was not seeking END would not have pnder any
who made the Denison his headqpaIters while