The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
OUR BUILDING STONES.
Quarries That Contain Enough to Last
Forever.
Marbles and Onyx, the Most Beautiful
Ever Seen in the World-siate With
out an Equal.

Among the resources and attractions OF
Utah that should not be forgotten is her
building stone, which exists in Hmitless
quantities in various counties, the best
and handsomest, however, being in Sum
NIT and Utah counties, unless the big
granite quarries of Little Cottonwood
canyon are to be taken into consideration.
1t is of stone from the latter place with
which the famous Salt Lake temple is
built. and although Salt Lakes granite
quarries have been worked for two decades
past, they may really be said to be barely
touched. The granite is one of the hand
soonest found in the world, and makes
striking appearance either rough dressed,
hammered or polished. 1t has great
crushing strength, and a structure built
OF 1t viii stand as long as the pyramids of
Egypt.
Then there is the white sandstone and
red sandstone that is used in the McCor-
nick and Dooly buildings, respectively,
which is far ahead of that usually found
elsewhere, and besides these there are
various other shades of stone, varying in
color and ductility. Paving stones 6x6
feet have very often been quarried and
the material is found to be far superior to
any that has been impaired.
UTAH's MARBLES.
Utah has a greater variety and a larger
supply of marble than any state in the
Union. The quarries are vast and the
stone varies in color from the purest and
almost transparent white to a let black,
including notified, serpentine and half q
dozen different varieties. 1t is suscepti-
bic of high polish, and the only reason
that more of it is not used is a lack of
capital on the part of the owners to de-
velop the quarries. There is as good an
opening Tor capital in the marble quar-
ries of Utah as there ever was in the state
OF Vermont.
ONYX.
The opening of these mines, or quar-
ries, which produce the finest onyx ever
seen in the west, has been one of the ac-
complishments OF the year, which will do
much 10 attract attention to Utah. The
first find was made at Pelican Point, on
Utah lake, the second near Brigham
G ty, in Box Elder county, and the next
Il a. Springville, IN Utah county. But
little of the stone has been mined as yet,
but there is great future before it.
BRICK.
Salt Lake produces the finest brick
made in the west, and has plants equipped
with the most modern machinery. Be
S .des the large quantities of native clay,
there also exists inexhaustible deposits OF
a deep red shale from which, by certain
processes of mixture with other mater
ials, nearly any desired shade OF brick
may be obtained.
SLATE.
Enough slate to roof half dozen cities
is found within a very short distance of
this city-the principal deposits being on
Antelope island, in the Great Salt Lake,
and in Slate canyon, near Provo. The
slate is of the very best quality, and
though the quarries were but recently
opened, considerable has already been
placed upon the market.
LIME.
Lime of very superior quality is pro-
duced in various parts of the territory,
and limestone is abundant nearly every
where.