Arizona republican., 1893-01-21
GRANITE. A discovery of Building
 Material. l. Is Easily Accessible to
 Phoenix. ssports Pronounce it of the
 Highest Grade. me ctw's Boom Receives a Most powerful Contributor at an
 Opportune Time.

r., rorks. rivers and hills are con
 '.so, for the edification of Phoenix %.J t6e conspiracy is ripening just at a ',. ro produce the greatest result. w this is predatory to the mention of T,,oyery more valuable to Phoenix ..dthis time than any that had ever ,,h,s been made-an inexhaustible .,,DIy of building granite. The dis .I,,srs are C. A. French and S. F. r,o Slack and the find is situated seven .rs. directly south of the city. For -llocation has been made, the quarry t,, bsen opened and samples of the ,,Dite were brought to the city night sySrs last. They are on exhibition at %. Keystone Pharmacy, Architect W,iipnls's office and at the site oi the ..r ,iardiner building, on the opposite .,,rsr lr1m the Mills house.
 Typerts who have examined it say Ina, il is of the tinest grade, and MT. Vl;inuis, the architect who IS now en-
 ,,si on the plans of the new Fleming tS,k says 1t is the best he ever saw. tis pure gray of exceedingly fine ,ain and susceptible of high polish. It the point now open there is six ,ssr.ioot breast and the whole mountain ,ssms to be a solid mass of granite reversed by convenient seams. It 5,s..s, easily or rather it comes from ,bs ledge SO nearly dressed that it re- S,res little facing. That is, under the 1,ron of the drill it splits SO nearly straight that little is left for the stone cutter Go do.
 BljIders are highly enthusiastic over bs ind and say that no gold mine ever Ns,oyered in Arizona was of half so much importance to Phoenix as the lay ipg open of this wealth of cold, gray granite.
 Toe ease and comparatively small N;, with which it can be obtained they biDk will precipitate the building boom, which has already begun to agi- tate the city. From the quarry to the rivsl there is a steady down grade and .ool road. With comparatively little expense & roadway can be constructed acf0ss the river-bed to facilitate the inl,portation of the granite. So en- hl.isslc are many that the idea of a tnngav to the quarry IS already being considered.
 No definite estimate of the cost of the granite for building purposes has yet been made by the owners of the quarry, blllhey have figured that they can lay t down in the city in the form of dressed curbing at SIPS per lineal foot. This igure can be greatly and easily lowered by improvement in the meth Ois of transportation.
 The uses tO which the discovery can De applied are numerous. Beside that o building, in the shape of blocks it can be used for paving, may be em- pOyed for ornamental work or out of it enduring monuments may be con ErIcted.
 li also furnishes a solution to the question as to what material shall be employed in the construction of the capitol building. With granite of a quality superior 10 which none has ever been discovered, the question of ma ierisl utterly vanishes, and when Ari- lOHI is state she will he proudly dis linguIshed as being the pOssessor of the second granite state building ever erected in the Union-the first one be- ing that at Albany, x. Y.
 The only granite structure of import snce now standing on the Pacific coast sthe CGOcker building in San Francis co, the material for which was brought ZN miles and at cost of transportation !hgeIy in excess of the price oi granite h PhPnix laid down on the building nle ready dressed for use.