Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-07-18
iewistown Quarry to Furnish Excel
lent Building Stone Throughout
the State and Northwest.
$4,000 PLANT TO Be INSTALLED
The New Enterprise Will Employ
From so to rs Men.-.Will Re-
duCe Cost Of Building.

Truely natures wealth has been de-
posted in Fergus county with lavish
hand. Her gold productions and her
sapphires have have already made her
famous, and her untold wealth in ex-
tensive coal deposits will some day in
the near future attract world Of
attention. Just now, however, she is
blossoming out in the building stone
industry, and if the opinions of ex-
perts are Of consequence Fergus coun-
ty will soon be producing a majority
of the building stone used in the
northwest.
George Reilly, the gentleman who
had charge of the construction of the
Bank Of Fergus County building, has
acquired control of what is known as
the Day Quarry, formerly owned by
Messrs. Day and Jackson, just east Of
this city. Mr.. Reilly, accompanied by
DR.. Foley, left yesterday morning for
Chicago. He goes to the windy city,
which was his home before coming to
Lewistown, for the purpose of pur-
chasing the latest machinery available
with which to work his recently ac-
auired quarry on most extensive
scale.
A mill will be erected on the land
owned by the Montana railroad in the
vicinity of the depot, convenient to
the railroad yards and the quarry.
Some $4,000 will be expended in the
equipment of the plant, and it will be
in operation within the next six
weeks. Included in the list of ma
chinery to be placed on the ground for
the manufacture of the finished pro-
duct will be two large gang saws, one
crusher, one stone planer two power
derricks. one of which will be used at
the quarry, and one brick machine
To operate the plant it will require
the services of about seventy-five
men.
We have been a long time in get
tiiiS 'iIiiioo III oIiopC " tiilS
proposition said Mr.. Reilly to
Democrat representative when asked
for information regarding the enter
prise. but we have at last arranged
everything satisfactorily and will have
the machinery on the ground as quick
as it may be forwarded from Chicago"
When asked regarding a market for
the support of such an extensive plant
Mr.. Reilly said: I'VE propose to do a
wholesale and retail business in rough,
sawed and cut stone, and do not in
tend to confine our market to the
state of Montana alone, although this
state at the rate it's cities are growing
will support plant of this capacity.
MI. Harlow of the Montana railroad
has made it possible for us to market
in any city of the northwest by giving
satisfactory rates over his line as well
as successfully negotiating similar
rate with the Northern Pacific lines
Every architect in the northwest
will be furnished with samples of the
Lewistown building stone and prices
will be quoted them on rough and fin
ished. From my experience in handl
ing building stone, which covers {
space of twenty-five years, and in
cludes stone from every prominen
quarry in the United States, have n,
hesitency in making the prediction
that within one years time the Lew
istown building stone will be used il
the northwest. In fact, we expect t
have shipped more than one thousan
cars of stone by the close of our frs
years business, and by that time W
will have doubled the capacity of tn
plant.
'.There will be no waste whateve
The top layer of the quarry is of
soft formation and will necessari
have to be removed before the mari
etable quality can be frofitably hand
ed. but this will be dumped into IL
crusher and made into first class mo
ter sand which will more than pay f
its handling. There is also an exte
sive strata of red putty clay viii
will be manufactured into pressed al
paving brick, thus profitably utliizN