The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-16
ROCK QUARRY development.
WORK WELL UNDER WAY AND SUPPLY
AND QUALITY SATISFACTORY.
Large Force of Hands Now Engaged In
the Work and More & be Employed
as Fast as observation-disclosures to
be Installed at Quarry-Bins will be
Erected at Once Progress of Surface
Street Grading Now for Nitrifed
Brick Projects.

1t is gratifying to note that the de-
veiopment of the quarry being opened
under III direction of the chairman of
h streets and wharves committee Of
the city aldermen, for street macada-
mixing purposes. is filling the m os
sanguin expectations of the promoters
Of the enterprise.
A large force of laborers nave peer
at work under the SUPPLEMENTARY of
Mr.. j. P. Jones. opening up the quarry
AND an excellent quality of rock is
being gotten out in large quantities.
About twenty-five laborers are now
employed and the force is being in
creased as rapidly as possible. Quite
a number are to be added within the
next day or two. AT present the rock
is being quarried exclusively nv the
use of drills, but a big supply OF dyna-
mite is expected to arrive today or to-
morrow and when this powerful explo-
sive is brought into use the output of
the quarry per capita as 70 laborers
employed will be greatly increased,
making good the expectations of the
city authorities that the quarrying of
the rock here will prove a great saving
to the city as compared with what the
expense would be if the rock were
purchased from distant quarries.
Mr.. Jones, the superintendent of
quarries, says that he has made a
careful examination as to the extent
of the supply of rock and finds that
| there is a continuous bed of it from
the site of the present quarry on Burnt
Mill creek, nea the Bellevue cemetery,
extending at least to the Delgado cot
ton mill, a distance of nearly a mile.
The supply is, therefore, practically in
eXhauStible.
INSTALLATION OF ROCK
CRUSHER. p
A member of The Messenger staff
was told las night by the chairman of
the streets and wharveS committee that
the mammoth rock crusher recently
purchased by the city, will be oper-
ated at the quarry and the work of
constructing huge bins for crushed
rock will begin within a day or two.
They will be put together with bolts
so hat they can be taken down and
moved whenever a change in the loca-
ton of the plant is desired. The equip
ment of the crusher outfit will be such
that when the rock passes through
and is crushed it will be elevated au-
tomatically to a big SEW which in re-
volving over h bin will separate the
crushed rock into o grades, there
being a bin for each grade.
Last night an order was placed fol
two 2-horse wagons especially design
ed for hauling crushed rock. They are
to be used in conveying the rock from
the cruSher ITO any point in the city
where the work of matchmaking may
be in progress. They have six-incf
tires.
SURFACE GRADING WORK.
The project of establishing a surface
grade throughout the city as provided
for by the recent s. 1000 special appro.
priation is being pushed with all dill.
gence in the vicinity O. C-~ange anC
Sixth streets, the purpose cf me com
mittee being to reach r-Eav localities
just as rapidly as p-ssih.z. A poinr
which is said to badly n.el a~ttentior
is Fifth street, between jhC-ch anC
Castle. There are others also, anC
the authorities are manifesting a dis,
position to accord relief just as rapidly
n impartially as possible.
What a pity it is that the v%itrifieC
brick pavement projects for Princes
and Market streets are not moving
apace with the progress of the ma.
cadamiZing and surface street grad.
ing, which are now developing so sat.
isfactorily, or, to say the least, tina
the Prince street project is not unde
way, being, as it is, so near ready fol-
and yet so effectually barred, at leas
for the time being, from the Inaugural.
ton of the work.