Arizona republican., 1903-02-01

better has ever been placed on the market, and none has equaled it in. popularity or demand.
 The quarries owned by the granite company are a little over six miles south of Phoenix, on the north side of the Salt River mountains, and but short distance from the quarries that have for years furnished building stone for this city. and from which came the granite used in the construction of the capitol building. With the exception of the sandy river bed there is a fine road all the way to the quarries. In the mat ter of quantity of this fine quality of granite it is practically ineXhaustible. or at least there is more of it than there can be any possible demand for within the years on which the present owners can calculate. The granite lies in mon ster sheets along the hillside. scanned into blocks almost as big as a house, , and is easily situated for working. As for as explored the lodges seem to pen citrate within the hill, presumably to it's very foundation.
 Tn respect of it's qualiey comparison with Barre granite has been referred to MT. Legier has secured samples of polished Barre granite and close in spcction shows that his stone is of finer | texture, and is of all the varying shades of Barre granite, dark, medium and light Indeed more, for he has also a pink or red beach stone that is very pretty. But the finest point is made with the darkest stone, which is TO- i ticeably darker than the finest quality : of Barre granite, and of finer texture. | There is no iron apparent, and some iron does show in the Barre samples notwithstanding the fact that it is con- sidered defect. No granite can take a finer polish, as all can see who pass | by MT Ligier's yard near the Doris theater, and inspect carefully the pol ! ished monuments standing near the sidewalk. The larger one is a specimen | Of particular pride by reason of it's ' large face. on which not the slightest 1 flaw appears, and the texture of which is very fine. As illustrating the gran ite standard the following is taken from a U. s. government report:
 lover twO-thirds of the granite out | put of Vermont comes from the quar- rie5 near Barre, and is known as Barre granite. Special interest, therefore, at taches to this region. The stone is dis tinguished commercially as light. me ! cium and dark, these terms of course | applying to the color. The dark Barre is the most valuable on account of the stronger contrast between the polished and hammered surfaces, and also on account of superiority in other respects. The light occurs in rather regular sheets while the dark presents a different mode of occurrence, the sheets being more regular. so that a dark quarry looks more like a boulder quarry than
 sheet quarry '" The
 granite is what might be called a gran ite proper. consisting of quartz, feldspar and mica
 Mir. Ligier has for long time been in
 correspondence with a gentleman at the
 head of the Denver Granite and Mar
 bie Co.,, the largest concern of the kind
 in the middle west. He has spent some
 time in Phoenix, and was at one time
 a property owner here, previous to this
 discovery however. He is therefore fa-
 miliar with local conditions. Samples
 submitted to him elicited his interest
 at once, and he announced that if fa-
 vorable transportation rates could be secured he had no doubt the Phoenix
 granite could displace both the Color
 ado product and the Barre stone
 throughout the middle west IT.
 considers it fully equal to the Barre
 granite, if not better. These negotia-
 tions have resulted in the securing oi
 rates, and he has ordered a carload as
 an experiment. The Phoenix stone car
 without doubt hold it's own with the
 Vermont granite, even in the east ol
 could only for the cost of transporta- ton.
 The only other dark granite quarry anywhere in the west that can compete with the Phoenix stone is in San Dieg, county. California, where the Santec granite is procured, and it is said that , quarry is practically exhausted. Ths