The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-01

| mines. 1t employs now 1900 men. I'M
| mediately around the city is one vast
| store-ho of hardwood tmbers, valu-
able minerals, and the most beautiful
and durable marbles and building
| stones found in the south.
MARBLE QUARRIEs.
| East Tennessee is noted for it's mar
BILE which exists in practically mex
| haustible quantities and almost end
| less varieties and tints. Every tourist
| should visit one or more of these fam
GUS quarries. We are indebted to Su-
| perintendent w. B. McMullen, of the
Tennessee Producers Marble company,
for valuable information regarding
| marble and it's uses. Nearly every one
knows something of the beauty and
variety of Tennessee marble, and the
uses made of it, for it's reputation is
world -wide-but few hardly realize it
| embraces nearly five thousand 'varie-
ties and of every imaginable color,
the richest, ever discovered. used in
decorations. The highly variegated
brands are extensively used for Orna-
mental furniture, such as bureau and
table tops, wainscoting, mantels, Mo-
sale pavement for halls and also TIL
ing. That it can be procured in blocks
of any required dimension and sawed,
is noticeable feature.
The red Tennessee is extensively
used for cemetery purposes and is
thought by strangers, to be red Scotch
granite, which it very much resembles.
The Knoxville Gray" is also used
for monuments, but Is better calcu-
lated for building use and is pro-
nounced by experts to be a very sound
and durable stone, There are one hun
dred quarries now in operation in the
state, which produce annually 100000
cubic feet, forty of these, being in the
vicinity of Knoxville, which is one OF
the largest marble shipping points in
the United States. / mention some of
the notable public buildings north and
south that are made entirely of, or
decorated with Tennessee marble. The
marble columns and balustrades in the
capitol at Washington; also the new
postoiiice and congressional library
building; the capitol building at AL
bany; the Equitable, also Mutual Life
Insurance buildings of New York, the
city hall in Philadelphia, the public
library and Great Northern hotel in
Chicago, besides u number of hand
some private residences in New York
Chicago and Philadelphia, are built en-
tirely, or finished, in Tennessee marble.
For monumental purposes, the Lee
monument" at New Orleans, described
in a former letter, that magnificent
shaft, 100 feet in height, is built en-
tirely of gray marble from the McMul-
len quarry of Knoxville, and is without
doubt one of the handsomest pieces of
work of its kind in the world. This
shaft is today as free from stain and
discoloration as when we first saw 1t
seventeen years ago.
ELEGANT MEMORIALS
Elegant memorials have recently
been erected TO the late Peter Cooper
in New York. and also to John Han
cock, of Boston, built entirely of Ten
nessee marble, and which for artistic
beauty and finish are not surpassed
by anything of the kind in the world,
This particular marble has no equal
for interior finish. its colors are of
sufficient variety to warrant in the
trimmings and contrasts the highest
degree of artistic effect, and the dem
sity, strength and durability of the
material makes Ii absolutely superior
for sanitary work, besides IL is imper-
vious to atmospheric action, and it's
fre-resistlng qualities are superior to
granite. 1t easily ranks With the fine